Showing posts with label Armando Crispino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armando Crispino. Show all posts

Thursday, May 1, 2008

L'Etrusco uccide ancora (The Etruscan Kills Again/The Dead are Alive)


I recently managed to get my hands on a great fancomposite of Crispino's 1972 giallo. I'd only seen the the poor looking Eurovista dvd before and this beautiful fandub really changed my perception of the film. I still prefer Autopsy but L'Etrusco uccide ancora is a above average giallo with some stand-out sequences. Poster art isn't great though.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Macchie solari (Autopsy)


The opening minutes of Armando Crispino's Macchie solari are outstanding. Unfortunately the rest of the film can't quite match the intensity of the montage of suicides and the scenes with Mimsy Farmer in the morgue. It's still an atmospheric and enjoyable (if slightly overlong) giallo with fine performances by Mimsy and Ray Lovelock. There are a few great set-pieces (including a very disturbing sequence at a crime museum). The creepy, atonal score by Morricone fits prefectly and is a deserving candidate for the Digitmovies treatment. No info on the poster artist.