(AKA Porthole) I'd say we hit rock bottom with this one, but I actually like rock bottom. Rock bottom is VZ1's favorite place in fact. This... this is something else. A self-important piece-o-shit, that at least the director had the decency to go by Alan Smithee. Perhaps the least enjoyable film ever reviewed on this site.
A Czechsploitation flick about a female psychopath who gets involved with a white slavery operation in, of all places, Vermont.
(Original Title: La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti) The second in the Liceale series, following La Liceale (1975).
(Original Title: L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto) Another Italian sex comedy following the usual formula: Lino Banfi as the eternally frustrated and bumbling comedic lead, Vitali as the imbecile, and [insert name of hot naked actress] as the object of everyone's lust. It's not Edwige Fenech this time - it's the lovely Janet Agren.
(Original Title: Scuola di ladri) An unfunny Italian comedy about three losers who are trained to be expert thieves in service of a criminal mastermind.
(Original Title: La settimana al mare) A silly Italian sex comedy featuring Anna Maria Rizzoli and Paola Senatore.
(Original Title: L'insegnante al mare con tutta la classe) Essentially Schoolteacher in the House all over again, but without Fenech or Renzo and it's at a beach... and there's no teacher.
(Original Title: Maschio latino cercasi, AKA L'affare s'ingrossa) An anthology of sex comedy segments.
An Italian sex comedy starring Lilli Carati, and the usual suspects (Vitali, Banfi, D'Angelo).
It seems like every country had their own Police Academy type franchise about a ragtag group of misfits in public service. I'm a fan of the Z Brigade films from Argentina, for example. This film is the sequel to I pompieri (1985) and we once again follow the buffoonish exploits of Squadron 17.
(Original Title: L'ultima orgia del III Reich) Easily one of the most ghoulish and twisted Nazisploitation films ever made; yet, it is also the most compelling, with a genuinely interesting story at its heart.
(Original title: Le scomunicate di San Valentino) An Italian nunsploitation film starring the great Jenny Tamburi.
(Original title: Le couteau sous la gorge) A French giallo starring sexploitation all-stars Brigitte Lahaie and Florence Guérin.
(Original Title: Sette scialli di seta gialla) A giallo that checks all the boxes: black gloved killer, fashion models getting naked and offed, a connection to an animal and the color yellow (giallo), and bumbling pointless police detectives.
(AKA Act of Revenge) A woman seeks answers and ultimately revenge for the death of her brother.
(Original Title: La muerte llama a las 10) A Spanish giallo about a woman who finds herself wrapped up in a criminal situation linked to her boyfriend in Vietnam. A cast of unlikable weirdos make up the long suspect list.
(Original Title: Carnalità) Italian sex goddesses Erna Schurer and Femi Benussi star in a film about foul-play and boobs.
(Original Title - Delitto carnale) A Giallo about a bunch of unlikeable rich Italians stuck in a hotel while a mysterious killers does humanity a favor by killing them off one by one.
(Original Title: La seduzione) I'm no fan of romance films, but the Italians had a knack; delivering plenty of sleaze and over-the-top melodrama with a joyous sincerity.
(Original Title: ...a tutte le auto della polizia...) I've never been particularly interested to explore the Italian Polizi genre. The police aspect of the giallos are always the lamest; laborious scenes of detectives fumbling through red herrings. Plus, the ones I have seen never came close to a Dirty Harry or even a Starsky & Hutch. But, I suppose I have only grazed the tip of the iceberg and should check out some more, and this one - which is basically a Polizi-Giallo hybrid seemed a good place to start.
An Italian film about an older couple who are struggling to keep the flame alive. Things are complicated by swinger friends, a horny son, and a feminist.
(Original Title: Il sorriso della iena) A giallo starring greats Rosalba Neri and Jenny Tamburi. It's your typical murdering-for-inheritance shtick, but with that Italian giallo mojo - cool fashions, groovy music, hyper sexuality, and, of course, wicked violence.
Lucio Fulci produced slasher/giallo which takes place on the set of a horror movie. Various cast and crew are murdered until the unsatisfying end.
