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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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OUR DISTINGUISHED FRIENDS:
POLIZIOTTESCHI Archive
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Mark Strikes Again – 1976 / Director: Stelvio Massi
Mark Strikes Again! which is bad news for the criminals, and the single women, of Europe, but great news for fans of the late, great poliziotto pin up, Franco Gasparri. Of…
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Mark Shoots First – 1975 / Director: Stelvio Massi
Mark il poliziotto spara per primo, otherwise known as Mark Shoots First, is the second film in Stelvio Massi’s trilogy of Mark… poliziotteschi starring Franco Gasparri. In this installment, Commisari…
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Mark The Narc – 1975 / Director: Stelvio Massi
Whilst Franco Nero, Maurizio Merli and, to a degree, Fabio Testi trod the embittered but nonetheless committed pathways of policing all’Italiana, an emerging crop of renegade Inspectors began to enjoy…
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man – 1976 / Director: Ruggero Deodato
Bona fide, Italian Auteur Ruggero Deodato‘s sole venture into the aggressive, neo realist tinged world of poliziotteschi draws a wafer thin line between cop and criminal. Brutal, inventively violent and…
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Fearless – 1978 / Director: Stelvio Massi
so… yeah, we did a review for The Death Rattle, in which we argue Stelvio Massi makes a conscious choice to turn the Eurocrime genre inside out with this flawed,…
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Milano Violenta – 1976 / Director: Mario Caiano
Also known as Bloody Payroll for a pretty bloody good reason – Caiano’s tense and incredibly lean (even for) poliziotteschi, puts Elio Zamuto up against Claudio Cassinelli in what might…
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Violent Naples – 1976 / Director: Umberto Lenzi
Naples is a dangerous city – if you don’t watch your step! Inspector Betti is back! This time under the direction of genre maestro Umberto Lenzi in Napoli Violenta (Violent Naples),…
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Italia a mano armata – 1976 / Director: Marino Girolami
Easily the most energetic and certainly the most cartoonish of the Commissario Betti films, Girolami’s loose sequel to Roma Violenta, whilst still violent enough to satisfy the more aggressive Euro…
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Violent Rome – 1975 / Director: Marino Girolami
Like the sand at Folkestone beach (bear with me on this), which smuggles its way into the crevices of your underwear and hides in the soles of your shoes –…
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The Violent Professionals – 1973 / Director: Sergio Martino
When I visited Milan a few years ago, it seemed a pretty anonymous place. None of the culture of Florence, the history of Rome or the gypsy pickpockets of Naples….
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Emergency Squad – 1974 / Director: Stelvio Massi
My love for Emergency Squad, AKA the far cooler sounding Squadra Volante, runs deeper than that of simply genre, indeed, film appreciation. It has something to do with Stelvio Cipriani’s brilliant…
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The Big Racket – 1976 / Director: Enzo G Castellari
In a city ruled by fear, there’s a fine line between cop and criminal… and one lawman is about to blast it to pieces! As all the very best Italian…
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Without Trace – 1975 / Director: Mario Caiano
Multi-genre specialist Mario Caiano fuses together the poliziotteschi and the giallo in his sleazy thriller Without Trace. When the young daughter of a wealthy and politically connected doctor goes missing,…
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La Belva Col Mitra – 1977 / Director: Sergio Grieco
Best known “over ‘ere” as the movie Brigitte Fonda watches in QT’s Jackie Brown, Sergio Grieco’s La Belva Col Mitra AKA Beast with a Gun AKA Mad Dog Killer AKA Ferocious (and so on…) is in fact, in itself,…
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Il Cinico, L’infame, Il Violento – 1977 / Director: Umberto Lenzi
A young gangster, nicknamed “Chinaman” (Tomas Milian) and his gang of thugs scheme to rip off crime boss Frank Di Maggio (John Saxon), who runs a criminal empire in Rome….
