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Abertoir · 2016

Abertoir 2016

Classics

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8 films · 4 reviews

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The Beyond (E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore - L'Aldilà, Seven Doors of Death)

Review preview for The Beyond

The inventiveness of the crew and Lucio Fulci's singular vision raise it well above most genre work of the period and make it well worth checking out.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A woman inherits a New Orleans hotel with a sinister secret, and horror commences.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1981; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Dardano Sacchetti; Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Veronica Lazar) , Trailer

Full review See: Interview with Catriona MacColl about Lucio Fulci and her career in horror.

Carry On Screaming

Slapstick farce about a deranged scientist kidnapping beautiful young women to turn them into mannequins for department stores.

(Country: UK; Year: 1966; Director: Gerald Thomas; Writer: Talbot Rothwell; Stars: Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Harry H Corbett, Charles Hawtrey, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas, John Pertwee)

The Fog

Review preview for The Fog

Simple things like a radio suddenly switching on, a wine glass falling to the floor, or an insistent knocking at the door are an object lesson to contemporary horror’s blood-soaked tyros.

Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
A small town on the California coast is swathed in a mysterious fog containing the vengeful ghosts of shipwrecked sailors.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill; Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh)

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The Fly

A man suffers a teleporter accident and ends up with the head of a fly, while a tiny fly with the head of a man tries to survive.

(Year: 1958; Director: Kurt Neumann; Writer: James Clavell, based on the short story by George Langelaan; Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman)

I Drink Your Blood

Satan-worshipping hippies abuse the residents of a small town - then contract rabies.

(Country: US; Year: 1970; Director: David E Durston; Writer: David E Durston; Stars: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson, Riley Mills, John Damon, Elizabeth Marner-Brooks)

Maniac

Review preview for Maniac

It’s flashy and glossy where the original was fetid and grubby, winking at the audience where Lustig wallowed in the misery to memorable effect.

David Graham · 3 out of 5
First-person perspective chiller about a serial killer with a fetish for scalping.

(Country: France, US; Year: 2012; Director: Franck Khalfoun; Writer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, C.A. Rosenberg, Joe Spinell; Stars: Elijah Wood, Liane Balaban, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo, Morgane Slemp, Genevieve Alexandra, Sammi Rotibi, Sal Landi, Megan Duffy, Freedom, Jan Broberg, Brian Ames, Davis Neves, Steffinnie Phrommany, Akbar Kurtha)

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The New York Ripper (Lo squartatore di New York)

Review preview for The New York Ripper

Lucio Fulci's audaciously sleazoid slasher is designed to provoke as much outrage as possible, but it also just about cuts it as a classically-styled giallo thriller.

David Graham · 3 out of 5
The surviving victim of a serial killer becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

(Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Gianfranco Clerici, Lucio Fulci, Vincenzo Mannino, Dardano Sacchetti; Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti, Alexandra Delli Colli, Paolo Malco, Cinzia de Ponti, Cosimo Cinieri, Daniela Doria, Babette New, Zora Kerova, Paul E. Guskin, Antone Pagan, Josh Cruze, Marsha MacBride)

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Shivers

The inhabitants of an apartment building are infected by a sexually transmitted virus that makes them sexually aggressive.

(Country: Canada; Year: 1975; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele)