European Cult & Horror

The ultimate Bava classic. Its incredible. It just draws you in and doesnt let go till the end!

Awsome film from Bava. The Wurdulake is gothic horror at its best. And The Drop of Water segment is sooo freakin scary!

Another beautiful film from Bava. Well paced and great story. My personal fav. in the Bava library.

Blood and Black Lace is a freakin masterpeice! Mario Bava fills this film with vivid colors and beautiful sets. He was a perfectionist, and it shows. He not only handled the direction of the film, he also did the lighting and set designs. He is truly an underrated Director, and thats a big understatment. He influenced everyone from Dario Argento to Francis Ford Coppola. And his name should be mention along with names like Hitchcock, Welles, Coppola, Lynch and any other respected known film director.
Blood and Black Lace is not the first Giallo film. But it is the film which kicked off the Giallo Boom in the 60's and 70's. Yet no other Giallo film it influenced matches the same quality Blood and Black Lace offers. Highly recommended to those who appreciate film as an art form. Its a breath taking film. As gorgeous as it is sleazy and sadistic.

Bava amazes with his uncanny ability to make a low budget film look like its 1,000,000 for its time! Great twilight zone type story too.

Atmosphereic spanish horror has zombies on horse back riding in slow motion.

not as good as the first but damn i love the Zombified Knight Templar on horse back.

unbeleivable piece of cinamatic art!

My favorite Polanski "horror" film. Watching Polanski, who cast himself in the lead, go through his mental breakdown is unsettling. And when he's at his peak into madness Polanski the director uses some really simple perspective shoots that leave you totally amazed. This film is truly a magnifecent ride into madness. Chockfull of looney characters. Brilliant filmmaking. Polanski at his finest!

Possibly the best film to be directly inspired by Night Of The Living Dead.

Andy Warhol had nothing to do with this film! Udo Keir plays a great Dr. Frankenstein. Bloody and perverted!

stylish and totally enjoyable. Part period peice- horror- martial arts- revenge film.

John Saxon and John Morghen in the same film. Nuff said!

All you peta people beware! Ultra sleazy and gory. John Morghen is a coked up lunatic. And his favorite word is "twat"

Fun adventure film that turns into a cannibal flick.

Ive seen this film 20 times and i still need to showerand scrub the filth off of me after veiwing it. The ULTIMATE CANNIBAL FILM. Peta people beware!!!

Reggie Nalder is creepy. And this witch hunt film is a great sleaze ride.

ultra sleazy D'Mato film is his best film. Iris the house keeper gives me the creeps.

I totally forgot how good this film is. I just watched it for the first time in ...14 years... Michele Soavi was at one time the man to keep an eye on in the Italian horror film. His return to filmmaking in the last couple years, after a loooong hiatus, is greatly welcomed!
Dellamorte Dellamore is a great horror/black comedy/art house film.

Incredible modern day take on Elizabeth Bathory. One of the best Lesbo Vampire flicks around. Highly recommended to any one into that type of sleaze!

Herzogs remake is like a dream. One of my favorite interpretations of the story. Very stylish.

A very odd film, but very cool. Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani give very intense performances. They push their emotions to the brink of utter madness....and ours. Brilliant on their part. The "cuccumber" creature is cool. And Isabelle's miscarriage is about as moist as it gets! Very disturbing. I bet her lungs ached for years after filming that scene.
A very emotionally draining film. But my god i love it! One of the best european art house horror pictures.

There something about this film i love. I dont know if its the 40 year old dwarf they got to play a 12 year old boy? Or if its the really bad acting? Or if its the equally bad spfx. The zombies have HUGE heads. I think its all those things and more. Fun film. Great to watch with drunken friends!!

The Black pimp cracks me up. Cool film that borders on the zombie mythos. It has that apocalyptic feel as Romero's films...its just not done as well. Although this is probably Bava jr.s best film. Great setting and some really creepy scenes. Great transformations and some pretty hot italian woman.

The same ol' situation...just a different locale and its not as good as the first one. BUT...it has that black pimp from the first one, this time as a exercise trainer. That gets it a extra star because i love that guy!
Total rehash that isnt as good but still a fun time.

Deodato is in fine form with this cannibal flick. A much better film than Cannibal Holocaust as story is concerned. This one has characters you empathize with. Holocaust had no redeeming characters to empathize with.

A story about a couple and their corpse. Bad effects dont stop this one from being a real shocker. espeacially the ending!

This film kicked total ass until the end. It was one of the most brutal films in a long time. But that fucking ending really killed it! Why does every film nowadays feel the need for a twist ending? If it didnt end like it did i would be giving this baby a 5 star rating. It put me in bad mood for a couple days. really. It was like the second comming. and then that freaking ending! If i were able to have it my way. That chick would of killed the guy with the barbed club. Went to get her freind with the moustache out of the van....only to find her severed head. THE END! That would of been a great way to end this film.

Here's a new concept...an adult horror film!? Who would of ever guess judging from the god awful movie poster???! And a misleading trailer doesnt help either.
A very impressive film that is not for the primative minded film goer. Meaning someone who needs to have their films handed to them.
Visually haunting. This film is part Fulci's The Beyond, Polanski's The Tenent and a dash of Evil Dead. But its only simalar to those films from affar. For those looking for a Ring/Grudge inspired film...hold your breath....this is not it. (thank fukn god!!!) It ozzes Euro horror....the way i like them. Its no masterpeice by far. But what it is , is a solid horror film thats been a long time comming.
My only complaint....shakey cam. Such an over used and unnessasary technique!

George Eastman is creepy in this slow but good Italian horror film. There are some pretty shocking scenes. But man this film drags a good bit.

Heres another cool entry in the erotic vampire lesbo genre. Rollin crafts a cool and surreal film. A must for anyone who loves The Blood Spattered Bride, Vampyres, Hammers Karnstein trilogy or European horror in general.

Dreamy and stylish. The Blood Spattered Bride is one of the best Vampyr Lesbo films around. Well made and great on atmosphere and direction. Based on the story of Carmilla, which many of these types were based upon including Hammers Karnstein trilogy. Highly recommended.

The House That Screamed is one of my favorite horror films ever. Its influence can be seen in countless films, most notable is Argento's Suspiria. Not only has it been the template for other films but it draws inspiration from classics like Psycho and Frankenstein. Directed by Narciso Ibanez Serrador, who also directed the disturbing Who Can Kill A Child.

Who Can Kill a Child possibly has the most grueling opening credits ever. Made up of documentary footage from concentration camp victims of WWII and other wars that followed. Mostly the footage contains child victims. My girlfreind was balling through the opening credits. God bless her for watching my movies!
Although the film starts out on a grueling note......which i too found extremly hard to watch, but focused on the subtitles, so i wasnt paying attention to detail...thank god......the middle drags a good bit.
A couple on vacation wants to get away from the tourist heavy mainland, takes a boat to an island 4 hrs. away. Once there, other than a few children the couple find the island "deserted" After a very long investigation of the island...and i mean long....the husband discovers all of the adults have been and are still being killed by the children.
This film is good but the slow middle and the frustrating decisions the husband makes prevent Who can Kill a Child from being a real gem. The husband by the way looks like a cross between "Andy Travis" from WKRP in Cincinatti and Peter Sellers. Odd.
The ending gets really fucked up as the question "WHO CAN KILL A CHILD" is answered......Andy Travis Sellers! Thats who!
The film is very gritty. And in no way is the lush style of director Narciso Ibanez Serrador earlier effort The House That Screamed apparent. But maybe it benifits from that? The House that Screamed by the way is a MASTERPEICE!
The major flaw of this film is its opening credit sequence and the hint through out of a political message.....like there would be no wars without adults or something like that. Its never a fully devloped point. And its a point that is totally unnessasary. But still the film manages to be an above average watch.

Released here in the states as The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadismn, The Blood Demon is also known under many other titles including Castle Of the Walking Dead and The Snake Pit And the Pendulum. In fact The Blood Demon is a new one to me!? But all that aside, The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadismn is a REALLY fun film. Filled with great sets and some really atmospheric scenes thanks to the Bava-esque lighting. Theres a horse and carriage ride towards the begining of the film that is so fucking incredibly creepy and thick with atmosphere! But one cant expect a totally atmospheric horror film here. Theres plenty of cheese. Based very very loosely on Poes Pit and the Pendulum. I have to say this is one of my all time favorites. This film is a MUST for fans of 60's Euro horror!!

This is one of those its so bad its good films. But I do have to say the score is fucking great! This film had me seriously laughing out loud at the dialogue. Mickey