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Summary: ITALIAN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1960S
Review: AS AN AFICIONADO OF ITALIAN HORROR, I FEEL THAT MCCALLUM'S BOOK IS ONE HELLUVA EXPERIENCE. HE WRITES SUCCINCTLY AND CLEARLY. HE AVOIDS THE USE OF ESOTERIC TERMINOLOGY THAT CONFUSES PEOPLE AND HELPS NO ONE. TO HELL WITH THE EFFETE SNOBS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INTELLIGENTSIA. DAVE MASAK
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Summary: No Justice for Spagetti Gothics
Review: The florid, extravagantly stylized fantasies wrought by the Italian film industry in the Sixties exert a dreamlike power that transcends the obvious deficits of bad dubbing, curiously deadpan acting, and mystifying plots. Such provocative motifs as the fatal woman, aristocratic decadence, possession, and the sinister double assert such a presence in the country's horror cinema as to practically plead for analysis.ITALIAN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1960s is a library-and-VCR research job, offering little more than credit lists, alternate titles, plot descriptions. The author devotes two to nine pages per film, with plot synopsis outweighing criticism by a wide margin. The text is peppered with inaccuracies and glaring typos, such as the attribution of a 1977 release to Wes Craven's SCREAM. Differences between American and Italian cuts are seldom noted, behind-the-scenes information is negligible, and neither dubbing credits, interviews, nor secondary-source quotes are provided. Despite the fecundity of the subject matter, a definitive English-language study of the Golden Age of the Italian horror film remains to be written.
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