Italian horror films (Film Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 117. Chapters: Dawn of the Dead, Cannibal Holocaust, The Mother of Tears, Tenebrae, Eyes Without a Face, Inferno, Black Sunday, Suspiria, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Planet of the Vampires, Zombi 2, Two Evil Eyes, The Three Mothers, The House by the Cemetery, The Last Man on Earth, The New York Ripper, Deep Red, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Do You Like Hitchcock?, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Black Sabbath, Cemetery Man, Red Riding Hood, The Beyond, Phenomena, Pieces, The House on the Edge of the Park, Leviathan, Don't Torture a Duckling, Hell of the Living Dead, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, Lisa and the Devil, L'ultimo treno della notte, Dèmoni, Dracula, Manhattan Baby, The Stendhal Syndrome, Contamination, Cannibal Apocalypse, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Beyond the Door, Comparison of Dawn of the Dead versions, Antropophagus, Opera, Trauma, A Cat in the Brain, Absurd, City of the Living Dead, The Phantom of the Opera, Stage Fright, Dèmoni 2, Zombie Holocaust, Minotaur, Island of the Fishmen, Ultimo mondo cannibale, Zombi 3, Atom Age Vampire, Hitch-Hike, Zeder, The Church, There Was a Little Girl, Caltiki - The Immortal Monster, Giallo, The Mountain of the Cannibal God, Bloody Pit of Horror, Torso, Tentacles, The Visitor, The House with Laughing Windows, Dolce e selvaggio, Evilenko, The Final Darkness, Shock, The Changeling 2, Sleepless, Cruel Jaws, Great White, Eaten Alive!, A Blade in the Dark, Pelts, The Card Player, Nightmare City, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The Whip and the Body, Camping del Terrore, I Vampiri, Beyond the Door III, Black Belly of the Tarantula, The Ogre, Kill, Baby, Kill, Hate 2 O, The House of Clocks, The Devil's Nightmare, Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Holocaust 2000, Frankenstein 80, Macabre, Killing Birds, Killer Fish, Delirium, Deep Blood, The Devil's Daughter, Eye in the Labyrinth, Dèmoni 3, The Sweet House of Horrors, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Emanuelle's Revenge, Touch of Death, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, Terror-Creatures from the Grave, Graveyard Disturbance, The Door to Silence, Dinner with a Vampire, Aenigma, They Have Changed Their Face, Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse, Mill of the Stone Women, Demonia. Excerpt: Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest and dealing with indigenous tribes, it was cast mostly with United States actors and filmed in English to achieve wider distribution. Francesca Ciardi and Luca Barbareschi were among the leads as native Italian speakers to qualify the film as European for distribution on the Continent. Cannibal Holocaust achieved notability because its graphic violence aroused a great deal of controversy. After its premiere in Italy, it was seized by a local magistrate, and Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges. He was charged with making a snuff film, due to rumors that some actors were killed on camera. Although Deodato was later cleared, the film was banned in Italy, the UK, Australia, and several other countries due to its graphic depiction of violence, sexual violence, and the slaughter of seven animals. Some nations have since revoked the ban, but the film is still barred in several countries. The critic David Carter suggests the film is a commentary about civilized society. Filmed in the Amazon, the film tells the story of the search for a documentary film crew who had gone...