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Viy is a 1967 Soviet gothic horror film based on a Gogol story. A girl's corpse doesn't want to stay dead. Wildly imaginative, crazy, perfectly captures the feel of folk legends and fairy tales. Creepy, spooky, with inspired fantastic imagery.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/viy-1967.html

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You might think The Third Eye (1966) will be gothic horror but it's more of a Hitchcockian thriller in the mould of Psycho. There are puzzling murders and the characters (all of them unstable) respond in unsettling ways. Creepy and fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-third-eye-1966.html

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Death In A Red Jaguar (1968), a German Jerry Cotton crime thriller. Jerry has to deal with a Murder Inc type gang. Fast-moving, suspenseful, action-packed, shot with flair. The opening sequence is peak 60s German pop cinema. Superb pulp movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/death-in-red-jaguar-1968.html

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Young Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973), a Spanish horror film partly reshot for the US. Horror in a contemporary setting, with a vampire cult and a 700-year-old vampire queen on an island. Not bad but a bit too tame.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/young-hannah-queen-of-vampires-1973.html

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Antonio Margheriti’s Web of the Spider is a colour remake of his excellent 1964 Castle of Blood. With Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe! A good slightly offbeat gothic horror film featuring ghosts (sort of) and a nice aesthetic. Cool ending.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/web-of-spider-1971.html

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Too Beautiful To Die (1988), an incredibly underrated giallo set in the glittering but empty world of high fashion and supermodels in Milan. I love the over-the-top 80s aesthetic. Very stylish, very decadent, very fetishistic. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/too-beautiful-to-die-1988.html

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This will upset Fulci fans but I really disliked his 1972 giallo Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972). And in general I'm a major Fulci fan. The right ingredients and a fine cast. Florinda Bolkan is excellent. It just didn't come together for me.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/dont-torture-duckling-1972-rewatch.html

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In The Black Cat (1981) Lucio Fulci takes Poe's story as a starting point and then builds a new story. Two young lovers have vanished. A crazy professor (played by Patrick Magee!) talks to the dead. He has a psychic link to his cat. Great movie.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-black-cat-1981.html

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Lady Morgan’s Vengeance is a 1965 Italian gothic horror movie. In a spooky castle a woman is going slowly mad. It doesn't slot neatly into any one genre, there are some interesting narrative techniques. While it's no masterpiece it's enjoyable.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/lady-morgans-vengeance-1965.html

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The fine 1972 giallo So Sweet, So Dead begins with a very dead naked girl. Cop Farley Granger's problem is the victim was a general's wife so he has to tread carefully. More murders follow among the decadent rich. The ending packs a real punch.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/so-sweet-so-dead-1972.html

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Monster of the Opera (1964) seems like a typical "young lady in semi-transparent nightie running in terror" gothic horror film but turns out to be much odder. It's a vampire in a haunted theatre film. Or maybe it isn't. Bizarre but fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/monster-of-opera-1964.html

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The Seventh Grave (1965) is an Italian gothic horror film with the right ingredients - empty coffins, disappearing corpses, a hidden treasure, a séance - but it's definitely a lesser example of the breed. It's OK but lacks any real spark.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-seventh-grave-1965.html

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Tinto Brass's later films such as The Voyeur (1994) are very sexy but they're also often very arty, goodnatured and amusing. The Voyeur is a provocative intelligent erotic art film about voyeurism but also about secrets, lies and fantasies.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-voyeur-1994.html

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Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1962) is overcooked overdone overblown outrageous. A mad scientist with a thing for dead girls. Madness and very unhealthy sexual obsessions. Barbara Steele is excellent. Shades of Hitchcock's Rebecca.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-horrible-dr-hichcock-1962.html

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Savage Three (Fango bollente, 1975), a nasty little movie combining poliziottesco and psycho killer movie elements. Superbly chilling performance by Joe Dallesandro combining evil and innocence. Great movie.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/06/savage-three-1975.html

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Antonio Margheriti's The Golden Arrow is a 1962 Italian Arabian Nights adventure/romance. It's a rather bland kids' movie rather than a full-fledged peplum, and with awful comic relief. It does look lovely though and it's reasonably enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-golden-arrow-1962.html

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Damiano Damiani's La strega in amore (The Witch, 1966), unconventional Italian gothic horror in a modern setting. A writer gets involved with a woman who may be a witch. Very decadent. It's also a noirish psychosexual melodrama. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-witch-la-strega-in-amore-1966.html

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Don't make the mistake of thinking of Claude Chabrol’s oddball The Champagne Murders (1967) as a Hitchcockian thriller. There’s no suspense. It's more a black comedy. You'll enjoy it more if you accept that he's teasing and toying with you.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-champagne-murders-1967.html

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Jean-Pierre Melville’s Un Flic (1972), perhaps neonoir but more existentialist crime film. Alain Delon is a cop, there are two heists, but it's an art film, a coldly intellectual exercise in absurdism, existentialism, alienation and isolation.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/un-flic-1972.html

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Syndicate Sadists (1975) is a 1975 Umberto Lenzi poliziottesco that's really a lone wolf hero vigilante movie. Tomas Milian stars and he has a personal score to settle. There's a kidnapping. Not Lenzi's best but Milian's charisma caries it.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/syndicate-sadists-1975.html

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The Devil’s Possessed (1974) is a Paul Naschy movie based very loosely on the crimes of the infamous Gilles de Rais. Set in 15th century France it combines swashbuckling adventure with plenty of horror. Naschy is deliciously cruel and evil.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/devils-possessed-1974.html

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Scream of the Demon Lover (1970) is a well executed Spanish-Italian gothic horror/gothic romance movie. It has the right gothic look, it has energy and flair, some nudity and plenty of hints of strange sexual kinks. Plus a mad scientist. Bliss!

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/scream-of-demon-lover-1970.html

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Massimo Dallamano's 1976 poliziottesco Colt 38 Special Squad concerns an elite four-man squad of motorcycle-riding cops and a personal vendetta between a cop and a gang boss. A stylish but very violent very dark movie with fine action scenes.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/colt-38-special-squad-1976.html

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Massimo Dallamano's A Black Veil for Lisa (1968) is not quite a giallo. There's some Hitchcock influence, and some krimi traces. A very good stylish emotionally complex crime thriller with characters driven by their erotic obsessions.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-black-veil-for-lisa-1968.html

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Jane Fonda and Alain Delon shine in Rene Clement's superb Joy House (1964) which anticipates later erotic neo-noirs. Has a slightly off-kilter absurdist edge. Almost noir black comedy. A movie about game-playing and the movie itself is a game.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/joy-house-1964.html

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Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968) is an enjoyable German eurohorror film falling into the gothic horror in a contemporary setting sub-genre, with added decadence and lots of weirdness. It's also sleazy and includes a guy-in-a-bear-suit.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/04/castle-of-creeping-flesh-1968.html

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Giulio Questi’s Death Laid an Egg (1968) is a weird mix of a very bad political art film (with mutant chickens) and a superb delightfully twisted giallo. It's an interesting failure but the giallo plot is excellent. Ewa Aulin is terrific.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/04/death-laid-egg-1968.html

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Carroll Baker stars in Umberto Lenzi's 1969 proto-giallo Orgasmo. Baker is a rich widow who gets mixed up with a much younger brother and sister. Baker thinks she's in control. She isn't. Very stylish, lots of unhealthy eroticism and decadence.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/03/orgasmo-aka-paranoia-1969.html

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The Killer Is One of Thirteen (1973) is a Spanish giallo or rather proto-giallo, these films being stylish decadent erotic thrillers rather than gorefests. Sadly this one has the decadence but it's slow, very unsexy and not stylish enough.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-killer-is-one-of-thirteen-1973.html

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OSS 117: Mission to Tokyo 1966 is a lighthearted 1966 French eurospy movie. The world is held to ransom by a crime organisation with a super-weapon. Superspy OSS 117 is in Japan with two dangerous women to deal with. Energetic stylish fun.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/03/oss-117-mission-to-tokyo-1966.html

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