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videotapeswapshop. (aka VTSS.) is our pleasantly unhinged tribute to the peculiar world of genre film. We're equally interested in both the ridiculous and the sublime efforts that have emerged from the depths of the genre pool, and in particular, those between the late 1950's and early 90s...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
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Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn
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The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
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Panic in Year Zero! – 1962 / Director: Ray Milland
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Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
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CRIME Archive
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The Heroin Busters – 1977 / Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Mike on SMACK. Despite a cracking Goblin contribution, some ambitious locations and the admittedly gritty depiction of heroin abuse and its trade, Enzo G. Castellari‘s The Heroin Busters, held up…
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Contraband – 1980 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Unlike Lenzi and Castellari, dear Lucio did not ride the Eurocrime wave. His entry to the genre came at the tail end of the Eurocrime filone. This is a pity because Lucio Fulci would / could…
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The Long Good Friday – 1979 / Director: John Mackenzie
‘oo’s ‘avin’ a go at me? Alarmingly prophetic and perhaps surprisingly idiosyncratic, John Mackenzie‘s troubled film is at once a downtrodden snapshot of British Crime from this period and a…
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Zebra Force – 1976 / Director: Joe Tornatore
Who are these men of steel?… When they strike, all hell explodes… …and the Underworld trembles!!! Joe Tornatore’s odd little blaxploitation picture does a good job at grafting the genre…
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Death Rage – 1976 / Director: Antonio Margheriti
Italian journeyman Antonio Margheriti was capable of much, much more than this late, late mongrel of a cash-in on the popularity of a veritable pick and mix of Eurocrime preceding it. Salty former…
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Operation St. Peter’s – 1967 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Operation St. Peter’s is a Lucio Fulci comedy that stands at a watershed point in his career. While it is the case that he would return to comedy several times with The Eroticist, Young Dracula and My…
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy – 1966 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Long before Lucio Fulci was known as a horror director, he was making a name for himself with a series of rock and roll quickies and comedies – many of which starred Franco…
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Grand Slam – 1967 / Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo‘s stylish and extremely enjoyable Grand Slam (Ad Ogni Costo) borrows all the best bits of The Asphalt Jungle and Rififi and prefigures just about everything else from the “meticulously planned…
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Strange Shadows in an Empty Room – 1976 / Director: Alberto De Martino
Phew! For a moment there, Alberto De Martino‘s Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (also known as the very different sounding Blazing Magnum) was in real danger of sitting too comfortably…
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The Duke Mitchell Film Club – Evrim’s top Eurocrime choices…
At the very death knell of our EURO CRIME MONTH online extravaganza, the very lovely Evrim Ersoy, he of our favourite London based obscure film screening society The Duke Mitchell Film…
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Ricco the Mean Machine – 1973 / Director: Tulio Demicheli
Tulio Demicheli‘s Ricco the Mean Machine is a full fat slice of Euro cult smothered in creamy dollops of duality, juxtaposition and contradiction. At once a straight forward exploitative revenge tale…
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Summertime Killer – 1973 / Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
We did a review swap as part of Euro Crime Month with Aaron from The Death Rattle who has co-incidentally been covering the genre too. Here is Aaron’s end of our…
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Rock! Shock! Pop! – Ian’s top Eurocrime choices…
Ian Jane runs the movie and music review site Rock! Shock! Pop!, contributes regularly to DVD Talk and in the past has written extensively for AV Maniacs and provided liner notes…
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Gambling City – 1975 / Director: Sergio Martino
What John Carradine was to low budget horror, Clint Eastwood was to Westerns, Arnold Schwarzenegger was to action films and Jim Carrey is to shit, Luc Merenda was to Eurocrime….
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Italian Film Review – Nigel’s Top 10 (!) Eurocrime choices…
It came as no surprise that, when we asked Nigel Maskell of the rather brilliant Italian Film Review (seriously, bookmark it right now) for a Top 5 Eurocrime list, he…
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Lovelockandload – Jonny’s top Eurocrime choices…
Jonny Redman‘s fantastic forum Lovelockandload is the final word in online Euro Cult Movie goodness. Jonny also writes for the excellent Italian Film Review and very kindly gave us the…
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Filmbar70 – Justin’s top Eurocrime choices…
We asked the very lovely and very knowledgeable Italian Film aficionado Justin Harries, he of London based Filmbar 70, to list his Top 5 Euro Crime Movies. Quicker than a speeding…
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November is: EURO CRIME MONTH!
The more regular, and the more observant (and we love you for it…) VTSS reader will have noticed by now that there is a decidedly Mediterranean flavour to our recent…
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Milano Calibro 9 – 1972 / Director: Fernando DiLeo
It is fitting that, what is arguably the greatest of all Euro Crime Thrillers opens with, arguably, the greatest opening sequence in film history; a sequence inarguably accompanied by the…
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Big Guns – 1973 / Director: Duccio Tessari
Dreamy Euro Icon Alain Delon is Tony Arzenta, a Sicilian hitman out for bloody revenge in a film otherwise known as Big Guns (or No Way Out), Spaghetti stalwart Duccio…
