![]() Mario Bava made westerns, sci-fi and peplums (historical muscle man films) even after astounding the world with his official debut Black Sunday, and Lucio Fulci was no different, as Contraband proves. Dario Argento, arguably the most dedicated of the horror directors, also made westerns early in his career. The masters of the classic Italian horror film were never confined to just one genre. NIGHT VISITOR (1989) (Scorpion Releasing Blu-ray.EVIL DEAD TRAP 2: HIDEKI (1991) (Unearthed Films.SLAUGHTER DAY (1991) (Visual Vengeance Collector's.'A Banquet' Ruth Paxton’s critically acclaimed dir.Beloved LAIKA Films "Coraline" and "Paranorman" Ar.SHREDDER (2001) (Scorpion Releasing Blu-ray Review).THE TWIN (2022) (Acorn Media International Blu-ray.MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935) (Warner Archive Blu-ra.Mia Goth reprises her iconic villain in Pearl, arr.THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) (3-Disc Colle.THE SONNY CHIBA COLLECTION 4-Disc Blu-ray Set Hits.SATAN’S LITTLE HELPER (2004) (Synapse Films Blu-ra.LOVES BRIDES OF THE BLOOD MUMMY (1973) (Mondo Maca.TRANCERS (1984) (Full Moon Features 2-Disc Collect.20th Century Studios’ and New Regency’s Barbarian. ![]() The Company of Wolves 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo arriv.MOONCHILD (1994) (Visual Vengeance Blu-ray Review).THE HORRIBLE SEXY VAMPIRE (1971) (Mondo Macabro Bl.'Censor' (2021) Prano Bailey-Bond’s acclaimed ‘thr.ROLLERBALL Gets A 4K UHD Release on November 22 fr.THE BAT (1959) (The Film Detective Special Edition.THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1939) and THE GHOST BREAKE.The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 'stunning debut' starr.NO ESCAPE (1995) (Unearthed Films Blu-ray Review/S.BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022) (Lionsgate Blu-ray Rev.Killer Santa Claus comes to town for the first tim.CARRIE and BLACK CHRISTMAS Get 4K UHD Releases thi.Imprint Films bringing The War Of The Worlds to 4K.THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR (1974) (Mondo Macabro.THE SPINE OF NIGHT (2021) (Acorn Media Internation.AUDREY ROSE (1977) (Arrow Video Blu-ray Review/Com.AT CLOSE RANGE (1986) (MVD Rewind Collection Blu-r.QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY (1970) (Blue Underground 4K U.A BANQUET (2021) (Second Sight Films Blu-ray Review).CENSOR (2021) (Second Sight Films Blu-ray Review).CONTRABAND (1980) (Cauldron Films Blu-ray Review).MURDER IN BLUE WORLD (1973) (Cauldron Films Blu-r.Phil Tippett's 'MAD GOD' critically acclaimed mast.This sends the smuggler on a one-man kill-spree, and Luca's deadly wrath forces the Frenchman to up the ante kidnapping his wife Adele (Ivana Monti, Argento's Five Days In Milan) and then forcing him to hear her being beaten and savagely raped over a phone negotiation! Needless to say this only bolsters Luca's resolve to destroy the usurping kingpin, calling in the old guard mafia bosses help take out the Frenchman's henchmen in another bloodbath montage, which features Fulci cameoing with machine gun in hand spraying hot lead. The best of the bunch is a gruesome scene of a guy who just won big at the racetrack only to get a pistol shoved in his mouth and his brains blown out! The Marsigliese makes an error in judgment when he orders a hit on Luca's brother Michele (Enrico Maisto, Violent Napes) who is gunned down in a spray of machine fire during a fake traffic stop by crooked cops. We get a great montage of the hitman (Romano Puppo, Ghoulies II) taking out a series of crime bosses and mob-connected men, very much in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Atypical of most of the poliziotteschi films this is not cops versus mafia flick, but a smuggler versus various other crime family factions, as the the Frenchman enlists a hitman to wipe out the competition.
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