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Written by James M. Tate / 1/19/2025 / No comments / action , bettina ciampolini , bobby rhodes , body-count , dario argento , horror , italian , lamberto bava , natasha hovey , nicoletta elmi , urbano barberini , zombie

DARGIO ARGENTO PRESENTS LAMBERTO BAVA'S HORROR 'DEMONS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdgAtl9103dSi-7bYUn0fsJtpIyiUi8C6dJV8BI0CqTcddRBVD0qJ2-fDuooEdk9N4FzB94YEO2_SG8kMefJzQEnPVvZ2PuA_exbaU7VbvAsmYcVaV952pS1lbVRNT5SI2GH0SsbL9caA_ULfxMAsMOmFh-K_Op6onuCVDFFt1kllWIqJr1Vz8B42ZT-/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-25%20at%2011.25.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1998" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdgAtl9103dSi-7bYUn0fsJtpIyiUi8C6dJV8BI0CqTcddRBVD0qJ2-fDuooEdk9N4FzB94YEO2_SG8kMefJzQEnPVvZ2PuA_exbaU7VbvAsmYcVaV952pS1lbVRNT5SI2GH0SsbL9caA_ULfxMAsMOmFh-K_Op6onuCVDFFt1kllWIqJr1Vz8B42ZT-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-25%20at%2011.25.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: DEMONS from DEMONI Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>It's a shame when, after thirty-minutes, when an audience watching a violent slasher-horror picture begin dying inside the theater... practically right alongside the movie playing on the screen... one of the bloody victims tells the frenzied and confused group, who were beginning to figure out this premise on their own, "It's not the movie, it's the theater..."Because producer Dargio Argento's DEMONS directed by fellow Italian genre-auteur Lamberto Bava goes from this highly creative meta premise into a fight-or-die DAWN OF THE DEAD retread, inside a theater instead of a mall... including a resiliently cool black dude leader...

action, bettina ciampolini, bobby rhodes, body-count, dario argento, horror, italian, lamberto bava, natasha hovey, nicoletta elmi, urbano barberini, zombie

DARGIO ARGENTO PRESENTS LAMBERTO BAVA'S HORROR 'DEMONS'

Title: DEMONS from DEMONI Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 It's a shame when, after thirty-minutes, when an audience watching a violent slasher...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/27/2011 / No comments / adrienne barbeau , dario argento , george romero , harvey keitel , horror anthology , nineties , sally kirkland

TWO EVIL EYES

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgdKKNoK2dsqMOSof5WF0kVmoLn0NvglvMfEf1xyQCgCl9Qb-WEeYxuwT2t47lBQOM-F5X_GqkaVZvl7k6Ip_qmAGS49ZZ1rgahU0JvGRoVgpfcBr1owicD1Lf61EZsTu6G8CfiVPglg/s1600/215715_179422508773235_177689438946542_418350_6917216_n-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600349629094705922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgdKKNoK2dsqMOSof5WF0kVmoLn0NvglvMfEf1xyQCgCl9Qb-WEeYxuwT2t47lBQOM-F5X_GqkaVZvl7k6Ip_qmAGS49ZZ1rgahU0JvGRoVgpfcBr1owicD1Lf61EZsTu6G8CfiVPglg/s200/215715_179422508773235_177689438946542_418350_6917216_n-1.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 200px;" /></a>title: TWO EVIL EYES year: 1990 cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kirkland rating: *** Two Edgar Allan Poe tales directed by two masters of macabre: George Romero and Dario Argento. Romero's outing, "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar," begins as a Film Noir tribute with a crooked wife of a dying rich man. Her young lover hypnotises her husband to sign over his inheritance. When he dies, he's not really gone since he never woke from the trance. Romero's in his realm with a zombie antagonist, but unlike NIGHT OF THE LIVING and DAWN OF THE DEAD, it isn't scary and the characters aren't interesting. But Dario Argento fares better with "The Black Cat," pitting forensic photographer Harvey Keitel against an eccentric wife and a black cat, whom he kills and... it, like the husband, won't die. Neither tales do the Poe sources complete justice, missing the master's mark of claustrophobic suspense, but the Argento story is at least enjoyable: aided by an important, and extremely sexy, cameo by Sally Kirkland.

adrienne barbeau, dario argento, george romero, harvey keitel, horror anthology, nineties, sally kirkland

TWO EVIL EYES

title: TWO EVIL EYES year: 1990 cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kirkland rating: *** Two Edgar Allan Poe tales directed by tw...

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