Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Bezenby More socio-political commentary masquerading as a horror film here, as a bunch of soulless rich Italians literally leech off the lower classes in order to make money from illegal medical shipments of blood to war torn nations throughout the world. That message comes across loud and clear. And camp and colourful and daft and ridiculous at the same time.A strange man drives around an Italian town picking up a prostitute, a gypsy, a drunk guy, and two annoying hippy drifters. He takes them back to his modern home where his sister Nina (Marina Malfatti) and her weird husband Antonio live. Antonio is an eccentric scientist obsessed with biological perfection who has all sort of crazy robots lying around the place. He also sports a ridiculous large wardrobe of gigantic bowties that only add to his strangeness. The drunk guy seems to be the only one who realises that he's stumbled into some modern version of Hansel and Gretel, only instead of being filled up with sweets and shoved in an oven, the evil rich people give you what you want (booze, jewels, etc) then suck all the blood out of the back of your neck using a bizarre robot that looks like Metal Mickey has gone off the rails pretty badly. Eventually the captives are whittled down enough and the hippies come out of their smug stupor and finally cotton on that they are next.Meanwhile, there's this agent trapped in a sub-plot throughout the film that initially finds some wine bottles containing blood who is trying to trace everything back to his source. He doesn't get to do much, but I guess he turns up at the right time when needed. Most of the madness occurs inside the house however, my favourite being when Antonio invites everyone who is still alive at that point to enter a weird hall of mirrors he's designed...if only they'll jump through the giant plastic fanny he's using as a doorway!This is the blackest of black comedy right here, but there are the odd effective bits of horror too, from the hippies finding a fridge full of dead bodies to the exsanguination of the prostitute. This is a fun watch for seventies horror fans.

GL84 Having collected various strangers, a deranged and twisted family brings the group together in their home where it soon dawns on them how psychotic they are and must try to get away alive.This one here was quite the enjoyable psycho-thriller. One of the more engaging parts of this one is the fact that there's quite a lengthy and prolonged first half that really does a great job at building a chilling and creepy atmosphere. The scenes of the group securing the different people, ranging from the different degenerates and hitchhikers in the various parts of town then bringing them back to their house under the guise of treating them well only to have the tables turned on them makes for a solid exploitation premise that features all the usual sleaze and nudity usually found there yet subtly instituting clues that something's not quite right along the way. From the couple's odd habits, finding the nude woman tied up in the bedroom and the psychedelic soundtrack playing over the orgy in the hall of mirrors, there's enough weirdness going on that it really makes for an appropriate set-up already so that once it turns around in the second half it's gradual induction of their strange machines kept hidden away really turns this one into quite the chilling effort. Once there, the raging thunderstorm and the reveal of their trap gives this a nice air that's magnified by the actual draining procedure conducted by the robot which is quite a surreal sight. There's quite a lot to really enjoy here with these elements, though there's a few minor problems with this one. The biggest issue is undoubtedly the confusing investigation going on alongside this one as it is so lazily shoehorned into the proceedings that it's quite obvious an afterthought by the short, quick-cut inserts they are placed into the film and interrupt the sleaze and exploitation in the remaining parts of the film. Likewise, this also tends to cause the film to stutter along with quite a rather plodding pace during this section and really keeps the film from unleashing it's full gimmick until quite late in here which is due to the rather unnecessary inclusion here. Otherwise, there's not much else really wrong here.Rated Unrated/R: Full Nudity and drug use.

morrison-dylan-fan Reading a fellow IMDb'ers reviews a few weeks ago,I stumbled upon a review for a title that an IMDb'er had highlighted to me during the IMDb's Horror board's October Challlenge,thanks to the movie having a wicked sounding Black Comedy streak.Gathering up films to view for IMDb's Classic Film poll for the best titles of 1973,I was delighted to see that 1973 was the movies release year,which led to me excitingly getting ready to get the lawnmower out of the shed for the first time in years.The plot:Driving round on the lookout for the 'lowlifes' of society,socialite Nina Genovese and her scientist husband Dr.Antonio Genovese spot a hippie couple looking for a hitch-hike. Generously giving the hippie couple the chance to sleep at their villa for the night,the couple are delighted to discover that the Genovese's are the leading wine makers of the town.Thrilled at finding wine flowing from every part of the villa,the hippie couple begin to seriously wonder if they could ask the Genovese's if it would be OK if they could stay with them for a few days.Finding that the wine has an oddly unique 'kick',the couple decide to look round the villa to discover the special ingredient which gives the wine its distinctive taste,which will lead the couple to discover to their horror the Genovese's deep desire to drain the poor.View on the film:Despite the only version that I could find of the title being one that took some shine off the title, (thanks to it being an old fullscreen TV print)the screenplay by writer/director Riccardo Ghione still thankfully contains a vicious bite,with Ghione taking sleek satirical Black Comedy shot at the upper-class of Italy,with Ghione showing the Genovese's firm belief that the poor are dirt on their shoes and need to be drained of what little 'life' they have. Complimenting his swipe at the upper- class,Ghione shows the low-life's of society to be filthy hippies who cant see danger coming towards their peace & love blinded eyes.Placing most of the movie in one location,Ghione gives the Genovese's Villa a charmingly off-beat feel by making each of their extreme wine making machines being ones that are wonderfully low-tech,which appear to have been borrowed from a cheap Sci-Fi film.Giving this very interesting Horror title an added dose of weirdness,Enzo Tarascio gives a wild performance,with Tarascio showing Antonio's love for his wife Nina, (played by the pretty Marina Malfatti-who had earlier teamed up with Tarascio for the Giallo The Night That Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave)to be so draining on him,that he will be prepared to drain the poor of their only valuable commodity,their blood.

Red-Barracuda This very odd Italian movie is a horror movie with a social commentary of sorts. It's basically about a group of rich, decadent people who pick up various less fortunate people and take them to their remote luxury villa. The aristocrats entertain this assortment of poor people with a wild orgy and plenty of other sensual pleasures. There is a catch, of course. And that catch is that these poor fools are to have all their blood drained from their bodies via a strange machine built by the resident scientist. Their blood is then sold in wine bottles for a tidy profit.The idea of the rich leeching off the poor is the social commentary. It adds an unusual dimension to what is a quite strange film to begin with. The blood-draining machine and the other bizarre devices in the house give the film a slight science fiction element which is not exactly typical for a film of this type. I wouldn't really go as far as to say that this is a particularly good film though. It's a bit meandering and unengaging a lot of the time. But, as I say, it does have its eccentricities and that is a plus point. It stars Marina Malfatti as the chief ice blonde. She starred in a number of gialli such as All the Colors of the Dark and The Red Queen Kills 7 Times. This film is definitely not up to the standard of those but at least Malfatti gets a more central role in this one.It's a bit different and it is a definite obscurity. But it's not essential though.