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Italian Horror Movies

Black Sabbath (1963) Review

August 4, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

black sabbath reviewOriginal Title: I tre volti della paura

Synopsis: A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients – an elderly medium who died during a seance.

My review: Mario Bava’s Classic deserves to be called by its original title translation: “3 faces of fear” because the 3 segments show different genre of horror: The Giallo, a Vampire tale and a Ghost Story.

Black Sabbath starts slowly with a classic revenge story using all the code of the Giallo (leather gloves, pan and zoom shots, a slight touch of eroticism, bright red colors…) but “The Telephone” fails to create much emotion and feels more like a draft for Bava’s next masterpiece, “Blood and Black Lace”. On the other hand, you now know where “When a Stranger calls” got its inspiration from.

The second segment, “The Wurdalak” is the weakest of the bunch. Despite a good use of the sets and great cinematography, the story drags for too long and is not being helped by poor acting and a weak script.

Finally, “The drop of Water” ends this anthology on a very strong note with one of the scariest corpse/ghost ever shown on film. The face of the dead medium had probably haunted generation of moviegoers who watched this movie. For this creepy and really scary segment alone, the movie is worth a watch and deserves a place in the Horror Movies Hall of Fame.

My Rating: 6/10

Director: Mario Bava

Origin: Italy

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Filed Under: Italian Horror Movies Tagged With: anthology, Classic, Creepy, Foreign, Ghost, Scary, Supernatural

The Gerber Syndrome Review

May 27, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

the gerber syndrome reviewYear: 2011

Director: Maxi Dejoie

Synopsis: A TV crew is making a documentary about The Gerber’s Syndrome, a contagious viral disease that is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly.

My Short Review: Many people are fed up with the found footage genre and rightly so if they watch movies like The Gerber Syndrome.

Unfortunately, it’s not so much the format that is to blame here rather than the total lack of creative ideas and basic knowledge of the topic being depicted (a deadly virus that is quickly spreading). See, what bothered me the most was not the acting (it was OK), neither was it the very low budget but the fact that nobody seemed to really panic when being confronted to infected people.

I was living in China when there was an outbreak of SARS and thousands of people got infected and hundreds died as a result. Whole disctricts were quarantined in Beijing. And SARS was nowhere as dangerous or lethal than this Gerber Syndrome. But for some reason in this movie everybody seems OK to be around infected people without a mask (all of the scenes in the house with the family and daughter are just ridiculous that way). Back in the SARS days, almost everybody was walking in the streets with masks (in Gerber Syndrome, people just roam around face-free while being interviewed and saying this is terrible, dangerous….). If this was to happen in Europe there would be mass panic and extreme measures would be taken by the government, not just this fake CS bullsh*t.

I’m all for movies that stretched reality but frankly speaking when you have nothing else to offer to viewers, at least make some efforts to look authentic (it is supposed to be a documentary after all).

My Rating: 3/10

Filed Under: Italian Horror Movies Tagged With: Foreign, found footage

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