Doomed Movieblog

I had such a great time writing about my best and worst theater experiences that I thought I would come back and share some more of the worst (and the best). The more I write about the worst of these cinematic moments, the more I realize what an obnoxious bastard I was at the theaters for many years. Sorry about that everybody. I swear I have reformed and you won’t be hearing me talking shit or being an idiot no matter how bad a movie is.

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More of the Best

Alien 3 (1992)

My mom dropped my friend Vick and I off at the theaters (Jupiter, Florida) on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. It was just before the end of the school year and our spirits were pretty high. Neither of us had any clue what the new Alien film was like but we couldn’t wait to see it. So yeah, holy shit, we were totally caught off guard.

Instantly, my most beloved characters from the first film were killed off before even showing up onscreen. Then the most grim and depressing of the Alien movies got moving. Alien 3 is totally depressing and a very bizarre film. I had never seen anything quite like it. To this day, this is still my favorite of the series.

What makes this experience so great is my friend Vick. Despite being from different countries (he was born in India), we were both 15 years old and both shared a bizarre sense of humor. Anyway, in a very harrowing scene, Ripley is attacked by a group of prisoners but they are not trying to kill her. Oh no, these guys have been without the comforts of a woman far too long and decide to rape her. Before they can, Charles S. Dutton shows up and beats the shit out of these dudes.

So why were we laughing hysterically at this scene? Is it the fact that nobody pierced Ripley? Were we so relieved that the day was saved that we couldn’t contain our joy? Not at all. For some reason, the “leader” of the rapists, just before violating Sigorney Weaver’s character, puts on his goggles, and makes this odd face like he’s about to do a back-flip or something. Despite the obviously serious tone of this scene, Vick and I were in stitches. For days after we saw the film, Vick would imitate this rapist’s trademark move and then do a booty humping gesture that was Oscar-worthy.

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

By the time I was 15, I was pretty much obsessed with Freddy Krueger. My sister Lorae and her boyfriend had introduced me to Nightmare on Elm Street when it first came out on video in around 1985. It was one of the most insane franchises in horror at the time and I had been a devoted fan (though it nearly threw me off with the abysmal 5th installment). Blame it on good marketing or something but my excitement for Freddy’s Dead knew no bounds.

I was able to convince my parents to let me see this one (by myself since nobody wanted to see it with me). Freddy’s Dead is by no means the best in the series but you couldn’t have told me that. This was the greatest horror movie ever made as far as I was concerned. Plus, I was really psyched about the 3-D sequences. With my 3-D glasses clutched in hand, I eagerly awaited the signal to be given to put them on.

When the 3-Dness kicked in and the dream-worms (or whatever they were supposed to be) came slithering off the screen, something in the back of my mind told me that this was all garbage. But it was somehow totally great in the moment. This was the first time I’d seen a 3-D film on the big screen and it won me over despite the convoluted setup. The roller coaster had me and there was no backing out.

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More of the Worst

Out of Africa (1985)

Somehow I ended up watching this crap with my parents. I was 9 years old and bored out of my dumb brain!!! This is not a movie for children. This may not be a movie for anyone at all. What the hell else was playing? Couldn’t they have dumped me in some other theater? Oh wait, I just had a terrible thought. Did I want to see Out of Africa? Was this my own fault? Please God, don’t let that be the case. All I can remember from this experience is Meryl Streep getting caught in a brier bush and me squirming around in my seat through the entire film.

Hamlet (2000)

I always call this ‘Ethan Hawke’s Hamlet’ so people know which one I’m talking about. My friend Kelly Innes and I went to see this at Tampa Theater. Kelly claimed it was for class credit and I believed him. Things started out normally enough in this modernized Hamlet but we soon realized we were in great peril. In case you didn’t know, this is a fucking piece of garbage. Standout scenes include “to be or not to be” in Blockbuster Video (below) and Hamlet’s father’s ghost materializing in front of a Diet Pepsi machine. There is also an array of boom mikes in the shot and other flubs.

As we made our way through this steaming pile, I started laughing and goofing off. Once Kelly started turning red with laughter and offering his own heckles, I began to get louder. When we heard that other people were starting to pick at the film, it was all over. After that, I think everyone was then trying to laugh the film off the screen. It didn’t work but a good time was had by all.

Crash (1996)

Once again, the Tampa Theater screws me over. My friends Margarita Acevedo, Mike Fusco, Mike Jolley, Jeremy Krolak, and I went and caught David Cronenberg’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s book. Now I like Cronenberg but this is a terrible, terrible film. The theater was in complete silence during the film as everyone seemed to be completely enraptured by this SHOCKING and CONTROVERSIAL thing. All I could think of was, “Hey that dude just humped a scar on Rosanna Arquette’s leg!”

So the film lets out and our gang is walking back to the car when Margarita blurts out something to the effect of “Wasn’t that film beautiful!?”. We all went completely bonkers and started giving her shit. The consensus of the dudes in our party was that that was a SHITTY MOVIE. We dogged Crash all the way to the car and Margarita was (understandably) pissed at us. I think we probably ragged on the film during the drive home too. I emailed Fusco and he says he vaguely remembers some scar-fucking jokes taking place that night.

Passenger 57 (1992)

It took me years to figure out this simple rule: Do not under any circumstances go to the theaters on Friday night. Breaking this rule in Jupiter, Florida is especially heinous. However, I was 16 years old and didn’t give a shit because at that age, I was usually part of the ruckus. I believe I was there with my buddy Scott and we were less than impressed with this action-packed offering from tax evader Snipes.

I like to call this film ‘Wesley’s Wandering Boil’. First, I noticed that Snipes had a big pimple on his face. Then it disappears. Then it came back bigger than before. Then it is covered with a band aid. Then it disappears again. However, this was not what makes Passenger 57 such a sensational theater experience.

While my friend Scott and I were watching this film, my attention was drawn to some yelling on the other side of the theater. This guy sitting with his wife is turned around in his seat and is yelling at some hoodlums sitting behind him. In the blaring gunfire and explosions, I can’t make out what he’s saying. The teenage jerks behind the dude and his wife are very amused by this man yelling at them and are just kind of staring and smiling back.

Once that incident ended, I went back to not enjoying the film. Suddenly, more insanity erupted as the guy, pushed too far by the fuckheads, grabs one of the teenagers by the collar and drags him out of the auditorium. He kicks the door open, throws the kid out, and comes back to his seat receiving a wave of applause from the packed theater. About two minutes later, two police officers, the douchebag kid, and an usher come in and the guy is removed from the screening of Passenger 57 with his wife in tow.

THE BEST

1. The Abandoned (2006)

The buzz around this movie was big. By big I mean almost nonexistent. I’d been reading about this movie from Spanish director Nacho Cerdà for a while and I was very, very surprised to find out that it was playing at my favorite theater (Starlight 20). After work that same day, my wife LeEtta and I went to see it. Including us, there were 5 people in the auditorium. The film kicks in and the volume is up too loud but it didn’t bother me at all. We were trapped in a super sensory overload attack for 99 minutes. I’ve had people tell me The Abandoned isn’t scary. I’ve also had people curse me for recommending it because it was too scary. Sorry haters but this film is fucking amazing.

2. Coraline (2009)

This almost made the number 1 spot on this list (but a dumbshit in the audience keeps it from attaining greatness). As a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration, we went to the theaters. Instead of the new Friday the 13th, which neither of us were that excited about, we opted for Coraline in 3D. This was a very wise move. Coraline is one of those fun and scary kids movies filled with moments of transcendent beauty. So yeah, there was this one dumbass chick whose medication had either just kicked in or had just worn off and wouldn’t shut the fuck up during the movie. Luckily, Miss Hot Topic was frightened into silence by many of the really freaky scenes hidden in Coraline and the rest of the audience was allowed to enjoy the film in peace.

3. Creepshow 2 (1987)

My sister Lorae and her fiance Steve took me to the drive-in one night. I was 10 years old and the triple feature was pretty strange: Italian cannibal film master Ruggero Deodato’s Cut and Run, Hot Pursuit starring John Cusack, and Creepshow 2. This was truly a magical evening. I got to stay out way later than I was allowed to and I got to see two R rated films on the big screen. The John Cusack comedy was kind of the wild card but was just boring compared to the other two films. I remember Cut and Run making me very depressed but then Creepshow 2 saved the night. “The Raft” was totally terrifying but exhilarating and I couldn’t look away.

4. The Ring (2002)

You watch a videotape and then you die in 7 days. That’s all I knew about this film when LeEtta (before she was my wife) and I were going to see it. This should be a great date movie, right? Instead of a hot date, we were clutching to each other in the dark out of sheer terror. Hours after we had seen Samara come out of that TV, we could still see her in the shadows lingering around the corners of our vision. I actually prefer Gore Verbinski’s version of this Japanese classic, mainly because of this wildly terrifying surprise first viewing.

5. Transformers: The Movie (1986)

My excitement combined with the rest of the adolescent crowd was almost too much to bear. When this movie started, the place nearly erupted into a nerd frenzy. The biggest revelation: Transformers: The Movie is just like the show except its better animated and way more violent. When Weird Al Yankovic’s “Dare to be Stupid” showed up on the soundtrack, it was a religious experience. Rest in peace, Ironhide.

6. Grindhouse (2007)

For anyone who didn’t get off their asses and go see Planet Terror and Death Proof along with all the fake trailers: SHAME ON YOU! My friend Matt Torrence (who doesn’t like horror movies) and his wife Rubis were kind enough to pick me up when my car was on the fritz and take me to the movies. The only downside to this experience was that I, having just gotten over a cold, was “the coughing guy” in the movie and got up several times to go and hack my lungs out in the lobby. But it was worth it, by god. Seeing this on the big screen with a vocal and jovial crowd was a friggin’ riot. The experience was an invigorating rush of fanboy love for all things trashy and splatterific.

7. Taxi Driver (1998)

While visiting some friends in Tampa, Mike Fusco and I went to the shitty theater (the one that did Rocky Horror every weekend) to catch a showing of Taxi Driver. This dump had posters up for upcoming showings of Alien and Clockwork Orange. In other words, this place was heaven for cinema obsessives like us. I’d seen this classic film on tape before but I had no idea what seeing it on the big screen would be like. I don’t think I blinked during the entire film. The print was beat up and scratchy and it made the film feel even more unpredictable and dirty than I could have imagined. When it was over, I felt accelerated and oddly happy.

8. Blair Witch Project (1999)

My friend Mike Jolley and I caught this one on a Saturday night after it had been out for a week or so and the word on the street was that this was the scariest movie every made. Well, it isn’t. However, this was a great time at the theaters. We had a great crowd that night and everyone was into the film. I remember a woman in the audience actually screaming for her mama. Classic. On the way back home, the night surrounded my car while Mike and I talked about the movie. We were actually scaring ourselves silly by discussing what we had just experienced.

9. Wicked City (1995?)

The dumpy theater in West Palm Beach that my friends and I used to go to (the one that did Rocky Horror every weekend) actually had a print of the animated 1987 film, Wicked City. This is perhaps the strangest experience on this list. At the time, it was very hard to be obsessed with anime. You could go to the video store and rent Fist of the North Star, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Crying Freeman, and that was about it. As this violent and kinky freakout exploded across the screen, a lot of people were giggling nervously, especially during the tentacle business. Needless to say, I had never seen anything quite like this before. After the film ended, the audience, myself included, was confused and embarrassed. Good times.

10. Sling Blade (1996)

I don’t know if my friends were drunk or just intent on getting on my fucking nerves but I actually ditched them at their seats in the back row and sat alone in the front to catch this great indie flick. Shortly before this movie got really popular it was playing at a limited engagement at the dumpy theater downtown. I hadn’t heard anything about this film but something told me to get away from my cackling cronies and give it my full attention. Glad I did.

Honorable Mentions:

Desperado
Spirited Away
The Strangers
Starship Troopers
Jin-Rô: The Wolf Brigade

THE WORST

1. Major Payne (1995)

Even though I have never been paid a penny for babysitting, it seems like I was always taking care of younger cousins or kids that belonged to my mom’s coworkers. This is how I ended up watching this horrid thing in a theater full of bored children. Unless you’ve seen this piece of shit then you have no idea just how mind-numbingly terrible this was for me. Just watch this:

2. Boogie Nights (1997)

This is a great film which is why I SHOULD NOT have gone to see this at the theater located in ground zero of retirees in Palm Beach Gardens. Imagine watching porn with your grandparents. Now imagine if you had 100 grandparents. Okay? Got it? I’ll move on. This old bag behind me was totally offended by every frame of this movie and didn’t hesitate to tell her husband every five minutes that she “can’t believe they’re showing that; why do they have to show that?” My friend Rocky and I are sitting there trying to enjoy the movie and this rude idiot won’t shut up.

Finally, we get to the donut shop robbery and right after the violent shootout takes place, there’s this moment of calm. So what does this old bag do? She says, “Oh my, why did they have to show THAT?” I stand up, turn around, put my finger against my lips, and shush this woman like a grade school teacher. I was very proud of myself but Rocky was trying to sink under his seat to get away from the scene. That was pretty fun. Maybe this should be on the other list.

3. Clifford (1994)

So I’m in Great Falls, Montana visiting family when the prospect of going to the movies pops up. At first, I am relatively interested but then it dawns on me that I’ll be seeing this with my young cousins (ages 12, 8, and 5). The only safe movie playing is Clifford. I think if this movie was on TV right now, I’d probably get a laugh out of it. But being a crappy 16 year old with a chip on my shoulder, constantly trying to act cool, this experience was hell on earth.

4. The Transporter (2002)

So yeah, Ryan Hastings and I go see this movie and it looked promising enough. I was thinking “Hey, that guy from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is in it. What could possibly go wrong?” I have been told that I am pretty much an idiot for digging on The Transporter like I should. I admit the fight scenes are awesome but the rest of the movie pretty much blows. However, Crank redeemed Jason Statham for me which I really wish I had seen in theaters. Anyway, back to The Transporter…

The best of the worst moments was when Frank and Lai escape from the bad guys by ducking into the water with scuba gear. They start swimming to safety and this beautiful music starts playing. Well, they keep swimming and swimming and swimming. I started giggling and then laughing out loud and Ryan starts telling me to shut up. Finally, he starts laughing. And they keep swimming and the other dozen or so people in the theater start laughing too. When the underwater sequence is finally over and Frank and Lai burst forth from the water, I started applauding. Someone in the back cheered and everyone was still cracking up. Yeah, I’m a douche.

5. Lost in Space (1998)

Kim, my girlfriend at the time, and I were so unbelievably bored in Port St. Lucie, Florida one afternoon that we actually paid cash money to watch this fucking wretched sack of ass. I shouldn’t have been surprised. I only ever watched the original show when I was bored out of my skull on Saturday mornings when cartoons were over. So why would a film version made over 30 years after the show went off the air be any better? Anyway, Kim and I were bored beyond belief and the only saving grace was the tremendously bad dialogue. We left the theater even more depressed than when we walked in.

6. Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002)

Here is yet another piece of shit that LeEtta and I went to see while we were dating. Jeez, how desperate were we to go to the theaters? I think we should have stayed in and watched Real Genius or something. This film is unimaginably bad. For an action movie, it has the most pitiful pacing, stupid dialog, and a shitbox plot. Millions of rounds of bullets are fired into bodies but there’s not a drop of blood spilled. Yikes.

7. McHale’s Navy/Anaconda (1997)

Once again, boredom proves to be my undoing. My friends and I were desperate to see something, anything. Unfortunately, this was one of the worst weekends to go the theaters in cinematic history. Only ten minutes into McHale’s Navy and we were immediately roaming through the theater looking for a better option. We busted in on the first 15 minutes of Anaconda and stayed for the rest of it. Do I need to say anymore about this? Out of the frying pan and into the toilet.

8. Reality Bites (1994)

It is senior year of high school and I had just gotten dumped by my girlfriend (who wasn’t really my girlfriend but had tempted me into dumping a really nice girl for her and then turned around and dumped me for my troubles). I finally had my own car (which I would wreck a couple of weeks later) and I decided to go to the theaters alone in order to prove that Mandy (her real name) didn’t mean anything to me anymore. I run into a bunch of acquaintances from school and decide to join them to watch this film called Reality Bites. The trailers seemed to indicate that this film was speaking to my generation so I was pretty interested. Oh no. No. No. No. No.

After 20 minutes, I got up and walked out. I could not relate to these morons on the screen. They were too whiny for me (which is funny because in fact they weren’t whiny enough) and they did not relate to me at all (oh, I wish that were true). Now I know that the rotten mood I was in affected my enjoyment of this stupid fucking movie and that I would fall head over heels for other pretentious indie dramas but damn, this just sucked. To this day, I have never revisited Reality Bites. Ben Stiller would not be my friend until again until Zoolander which almost made the best list. Damn, the trailer makes it look like the most un-entertaining thing ever made.

What was I thinking?

9. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

For the record, this is a pretty decent horror film. My nerdy complaint is that, for me, zombies are slow and they should NOT be fast. I know that in Return of the Living Dead, the brain-eating variety are pretty light on their feet but that film is just so great that I’m willing to let it slide. The remake of Romero’s 1978 classic is not that great. When the zombies of the new Dawn of the Dead appeared to be taking performance-enhancing drugs, I was pretty annoyed.

That is a pretty weak complaint, I know. But the reason this god damn movie gets on my list of worst theater experiences is because I had heard to stay after the credits to see the bonus footage. Without giving too much away, one of the survivors gets a hold of a video camera and starts filming. We are shown little bits and pieces of this footage while some shitty Nu metal plays along in the background. Interspersed in between this are sped up shots of hungry zombies screaming at the camera accompanied by ungodly blasts of volumous noise. While trying to figure out what the fuck happened to these people at the end of the movie, I was getting beaten over the head with one idea: ZOMBIES. Oh really? Zombies!?!?! What? I didn’t know that I had just watched a movie about zombies!!!! Look here, Niven Howie (the editor), you fucking asshole, I GET THE POINT!

10. The Exorcist (2000)

God damn it! The re-release of The Exorcist could have been so awesome. But no, they had to go and create some pitiful monstrosity called “The version you’ve never seen”. While still astoundingly scary, Kim, my buddy Scott, and I were not pleased at all with the additional shitty audio effects and all the new digital tomfoolery mixed in to make the film scarier. All it did was annoy the fans of the original version and telegraph a few of the upcoming scares. Getting to see the infamous “spider walk” on the big screen almost saved this experience from being on this list. Almost.

Dishonorable Mentions

Bridge to Terabithia
Saw
Out of Africa
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Old School

Back in February, the wife and I caught Coraline in theaters. This amazing film (shown in 3D) easily jumped to my top ten list of best theater experiences (coming soon). Upon leaving the theater in an electrified state, the one thing I said I going to do was buy the soundtrack which I did. I picked up this little number composed by Bruno Coulais a few weeks ago and have found it to be just as absorbing as the film itself. This is straight up magical music and is anxious in the best way with some seriously scary passages in the mix.

I love ABBA! What real man doesn’t? I’ve been listening to them (thanks to my mom) since I was 2 years old and they will always have a special place in my heart and musical development. The next thing I know, there’s a musical film called Mamma Mia with many of ABBA’s most popular songs integrated into the story. I was moderately curious but the trailers didn’t look very promising. My wife and I both agreed that it was a rental. Last July, when we went to theaters, it was Hellboy II: The Golden Army that got our money, not Mamma Mia!.

The musical seemed even more promising after a friend of mine began to rave about how brilliant it was. In fact, this person saw the film 8 times (!) in theaters. One of those 8 times was a special singalong version which had the lyrics to the songs subtitled on the bottom of the screen so that the audience could get in on the action. When the DVD came out, my friend made damn sure that he (did I mention that this friend of mine is a dude?) got the 2 disc special edition of Mamma Mia!.

While visiting the mother-in-law in Virginia Beach during the holidays, I noticed that she owned a copy of the film and I expressed interest in seeing it. Of course, my mother-in-law loved the movie as well so we fired it up. The next thing I know, my soul is shattered and there are chunks of my brain splattered on the walls, the floor, and the ceiling. I wanted to scream, to heckle this atrocity, or at the very least, to giggle maniacally but my mouth had been melted shut from the molten lava temperature tears, sweat, and snot running down my pulverized face.

I cannot remember the last time a film has hurt me this badly (although Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke broke my shins and ruptured my armpits). Watching Mamma Mia! was like watching my own funeral (except less uplifting). The scene in which Meryl Streep is running through the streets singing “Dancing Queen” with her friends and the female population of the little Greek island in tow, took me to a very dark place. A VERY dark place. But when she does her little halfhearted kick-jump in slow motion, blood began jetting out of every pore on my body and my eyes farted.

Why all this hatred? What is the crime that this film has committed against me? It totally fucked up my mind’s eye! This movie has replaced my lovingly crafted ABBA imaginings with insufferably trite and shameful molecules of Hades! I’ve spent 30 years with “Chiquitita”, “Voulez-Vous”, and “Money, Money, Money”, wrapped in the arms of their pop solace. And now these special things have been Brosnaned and Streeped! And Skarsgårded!! These aren’t even verbs. If “On And On And On” (my favorite ABBA song of all time) had been among the casualties, there would be hell to pay, I assure you.

All of these little gems were in theaters in that magical year.

In the world of European genre cinema, I have a hell of a time remembering faces and names. I’m assuming that you do too so I decided to start putting together a list of faces, names, and very brief filmographies, just to help keep these wonderful folks straight in our minds. I’m skipping film roles in dramas, comedies, and arthouse pictures so that I don’t just turn into IMDB here. In this first part, I’m focusing on familiar faces from Italian Horror, Giallo, Spaghetti Westerns, and Poliziotto films. This is just the beginning so don’t expect to find a complete list just yet.

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Florinda Bolkan

Notable Genre Films:

A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin - 1971
Don’t Torture A Duckling - 1972
Flavia The Heretic - 1974
Footprints - 1975
Last House On The Beach - 1978

The Florinda Bolkan Official Website

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Martine Brochard

Notable Genre Films:

The Violent Professionals - 1973
Woman’s Prison - 1974
Eyeball - 1975
Murder Obsession - 1981
The Man Who Didn’t Want To Die - 1988

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Gianni Garko

Notable Genre Films:

Have A Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay - 1970
Light The Fuse… Sartana Is Coming - 1970
Cold Eyes Of Fear - 1971
Night Of The Devils - 1972
Seven Notes In Black - 1977

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Dagmar Lassander

Notable Genre Films:

Hatchet For The Honeymoon - 1969
Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion - 1970
The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire - 1971
Reflections In Black - 1975
So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious - 1975
Werewolf Woman - 1976
The House By The Cemetery - 1976

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Maurizio Merli

Notable Genre Films:

Violent City - 1975
Rome Armed To The Teeth - 1976
Violent Naples - 1976
Mannaja - 1977
Fatal Charm - 1977
Convoy Busters 1978

Italian Maurizio Merli Fan Page

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Rosalba Neri

Notable Genre Films:

99 Women - 1969
Slaughter Hotel - 1971
Lady Frankenstein - 1971
Smile Before Death - 1972
Amuck! - 1972
French Sex Murders - 1972

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Ania Pieroni

Notable Genre Films:

Inferno - 1980
The House By The Cemetery - 1981
Tenebre - 1982

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Marc Porel

Notable Genre Films:

Don’t Torture A Duckling - 1972
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man - 1976
Seven Notes In Black - 1977
The Curse Of Ursula - 1978
Killing Of The Flesh - 1983

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Luciano Rossi

Notable Genre Films:

Django The Bastard - 1969
Death Walks In High Heels - 1971
Death Walks At Midnight - 1972
Death Smiled At Murder - 1973
Crime Busters - 1976
Violent Naples - 1976
Red Nights Of The Gestapo - 1977

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Anita Strindberg

Notable Genre Films:

A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin - 1971
Case Of The Scorpion’s Tail - 1971
Who Saw Her Die? - 1972
Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key - 1972
The Two Faces Of Fear - 1972
Tropic Of Cancer - 1972
Puzzle - 1974
The Antichrist - 1974
Murder Obsession - 1981

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Fabio Testi

Notable Genre Films:

What Have You Done To Solange? - 1972
Stateline Motel - 1973
Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - 1975
The Big Racket - 1976
The Heroin Busters - 1977
Enigma Rosso - 1978
Contraband - 1980

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I’m just getting started here, folks. This series will be as much for me as it is for you. If you see any titles missing or if the appearance of any actor is little more than a cameo, let me know. I intend to list even more European genre actors soon and more than just ones that appeared in Italian films. So keep checking in to see how the list expands.