Director: John Landis
Writer: Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft
Release year: 2010
Killing and body snatching with a sardonic smile!
In Nineteenth Century Edinburgh, the medical society is making great improvements. But they’re also in desperate need for fresh cadavers to study on. Even grave robbers Burke and Hare find themselves at a shortage of bodies when the demand rises, and they decide to try other ways to get their hands on fresh, dead bodies.
Director: Daniel Monzón
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón based on a novel by Francisco Pérez Gandul
Release year: 2009
English title: Cell 211
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock!
In order to make a good impression at his new job as a prison warden, Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann) visits the facility on the day before he’s supposed to start, to get a tour and introduce himself to his new colleagues. Wrong time and place, as it turns out to be…
Director: Tinto Brass
Writer: Tinto Brass, Pierre Lévy and Francesca Longo, based on a novel by Sergio Donati
Release year: 1967
English title: Deadly Sweet
Everybody loves something sweet.
Deadly Sweet is truly a giallo filled with the traditional elements of mystery and crime, also incorporating so many elements of pop art and psychedelia, along with a very addictive rock soundtrack. This film had me in the first 10 minutes.
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Writer: Bruno Di Geronimo, Massimo Dallamano and Peter M. Thouet, based on a novel by Edgar Wallace
Release year: 1972
English title: What Have They Done To Solange?
Catholic school girls rule. Their lives being shortened regardless, they rule.
When a killer, disguised as a priest, starts murdering girls from a British private school, a philander Italian teacher quickly becomes the prime suspect. But as the bodycount rises, things become more and more complicated and a mystery is waiting to be unraveled.
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: Norman Sinder and David Cronenberg based on a book by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland
Release Year: 1988
Love is the deadliest disease
Few filmmakers have a style as clearly defined as Canadian director David Cronenberg, whose career has been developed on a constantly evolving path moving from the themes of extreme physical horror of his early years (which culminate in the awesome remake of “The Fly” in 1986) to the subtler, psychologically oriented (though no less disturbing) themes of his recent work. Like a trip from the outer body horror to the inner one, the one of the mind.
