The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Jan 1, 2010Catholicism and Miracles
A ghastly sanctimonious Catholic miracle film from the 1940s about the elevation of a Hollywood starlet to sainthood simply because she was glamorous
Alida Valli
Eyes Without a Face (1959)
May 5, 2000Mad Killer Surgeon
Classic French thriller about a mad surgeon who abducts women to graft their faces onto his disfigured daughter. The film has a rare visual poetry combined with moments of horror that are still effective decades later
Lisa and the Devil (1972)
Jun 11, 2000Italian Psycho-Thriller/Haunted House Film
The last great film from Mario Bava, an exquisitely dreamy giallo/haunted house film that had the ignomity of being butchered and made into an Exorcist copy when it came out
The Antichrist (1974)
Aug 20, 2014Possession and Exorcism Film
An Italian-made ripoff of The Exorcist. Probably the most lavishly produced of all Exorcist ripoffs, this soon slips into lurid shock theatrics. Star Carla Gravina should get full marks for going beyond the call of duty
Tender Dracula (1974)
Sep 10, 2019Comedy About a Horror Actor
An obscure French comedy in which Peter Cushing plays a vampire or more correctly plays a horror actor used to playing vampires. Assorted extremely unfunny shenanigans running around his castle ensue in this shapeless and plotless mess
Suspiria (1977)
Dec 5, 2000Witchcraft in a Girl's School
The work on which the cult of director Dario Argento was built. The film consists of a series of extravagantly arty deaths at a girls boarding school, although comes without any real plot connecting this
The Killer Nun (1979)
Dec 9, 2021Psychopathic Nun
Notorious Video Nasty, a key work in the Nunsploitation genre with Anita Ekberg as a drug addicted nun who kills her patients. Apparently based on real life
Inferno (1980)
Feb 17, 2000Witchcraft Murders
Dario Argento's sequel to Suspiria, the second film in his Third Mothers trilogy. This is an even better work where Argento delights in sadistic and beautifully artistic imagery almost entirely free of any plot