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Tentacoli (Tentacles, 1977)
"I always heard that octopuses don't attack humans, is that true?"
"It is. I guess he had a reason to do it."
"Is it true that the suckers on their tentacles are as deadly as the claws of a tiger?"
"Claws are nothing compared to those, Turner. Nothing."
#tentacoli#tentacles#italian cinema#1977#ovidio g. assonitis#tito carpi#steven w. carabatsos#jerome max#john huston#shelley winters#bo hopkins#henry fonda#delia boccardo#cesare danova#alan boyd#sherry buchanan#franco diogene#marc fiorini#claude akins#stelvio cipriani#leonard lightfoot#one of the tidal wave of Jaws alikes that Italy pumped out in the wake of Spielberg's gargantuan blockbuster; in fact quite possibly the#most expensive attempt to emulate his film from the Italians (I mean look at that improbable cast of Hollywood royalty they assembled).#John Wayne (blergg) was first choice to star but was too sick (he died soon after) and instead the role went to John 'at this point I'll do#anything for a paycheck' Huston; poor Shelley Winters suffers through both a string of lazy fat jokes at her expense and some horrific#headwear; but surely Fonda is the most surprising presence. in fact he was first choice to replace Wayne‚ but suffered a heart attack and#so took a smaller support role. a chaotic production by all accounts (the biggest investment‚ the giant octopus prop‚ sank immediately upon#being put in the water) but despite the critical savaging this did and continues to receive‚ I found myself having an awful lot of fun#Cipriani's score is a belter too: his leitmotif for the monster is beautifully effective in its simplicity#fx are about what you'd expect but there's a certain charm to the scenes of miniature boats being menaced by an octopus hand puppet
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Beyond the Door (1974) // dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto Piazzoli
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Cartel película "Poder maléfico" (Chi sei?) 1974, de Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett.
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On April 27, 1977, Tentacles debuted in France.
#tentacles#ovidio g. assonitis#claude akins#monster movies#horror#horror movies#horror film#horror art#monster art#natural horror#tcm underground#octopi#movie art#art#drawing#movie history#pop art#modern art#pop surrealism#cult movies#portrait#cult film
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Madhouse (1981, dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis)
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Copiou e fez sucesso: uma grávida possuída em "Espírito Maligno", (Beyond the door, de 1974
#Beyond the door#satan#exorcist#exorcism#Ovidio G. Assonitis#horror movies#italian movies#Roberto Piazzoli#Juliet Mills#Gabriele Lavia#Richard Johnson#Nino Segurini#Elizabeth Turner#Youtube
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BEYOND THE DOOR (1974) Reviews of Italian Exorcist rip-off
‘You will definitely quiver with fright…’ Beyond the Door is a 1974 Italian horror film about a pregnant woman who becomes possessed and is seemingly going to have the devil’s baby. Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis (Piranha II: The Spawning; Madhouse; The Visitor; Tentacles) and Robert Barrett from a screenplay co-written with an uncredited Alex Rebar (The Incredible Melting Man). Original…
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#1974#Beyond the Door#Chi sei?#Exorcist rip-off#Gabriele Lavia#Italian#Juliet Mills#movie film#Ovidio G. Assonitis#possession horror#review reviews#Richard Johnson#The Devil Within Her
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Piraña paura
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati nel mondo del cinema e per la precisione abbiamo parlato di animazione, riprendendo la maratona delle pellicole Pixar e arrivando al loro terzo lungometraggio, Toy Story 2 – Woody e Buzz alla riscossa. Woody si prepara per andare a un campo estivo a tema cowboy con il suo padroncino Andy ma, mentre quest’ultimo sta…
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Beyond the Door (1974) dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett
#beyond the door#chi sei?#ovidio g assonitis#robert barrett#horrorstills#1970s#horror#italian cinema#caps#*#*beyondthedoor
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Arrow Will Be 'Gruesome' And 'Disturbing' In September
The last strands of Summer will be bidding farewell in September. Over at the cult streaming service ARROW next month, it will be ‘gruesome’ and ‘disturbing’. A mix of gritty Japanese crime drama, disturbing horror, sci-fi delirium plus both Adam Green and Ovidio G. Assonitis selects. Next month exclusively on ARROW in the UK, Vampire Clay, an outrageously entertaining horror film about clay…
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Beyond the Door (1974) // dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto Piazzoli
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Juliet Mills "Poder maléfico" (Chi sei?) 1974, de Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett.
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On May 18, 1977, Tentacles debuted in the Netherlands.
#tentacles#tentacles 1977#ovidio g. assonitis#claude akins#monster movies#natural horror#octopus#octopi#exploitation film#grindhouse film#tcm underground#movie art#art#drawing#movie history#pop art#modern art#pop surrealism#cult movies#portrait#cult film
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Beyond The Door (1974) | 31 Days Of Horror 2023 | Day 3 | Movie Review
Tonight's spooky pick: Beyond The Door.
It's about a young woman who starts to develop strange behaviors while pregnant with her third child. She's starting to show signs of full blown-demonic possesion.Could it be that she's carrying the child of ... SATIN ... I mean. ... SATAN!
Before you go see The Exorcist: Beliver this Friday (and really why would you after what David Gordon Green did to the Halloween franchise) watch this Italian Exorcist ripoff Warner Brothers sued for copyright infringement and won!
Released in 1974 by Film Ventures International.
Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring Juliet Mills, Gabriele Lavia and Richard Johnson.
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Madhouse (Ovidio G. Assonitis, 1981)
#madhouse#there was a little girl#ovidio g. assonitis#horror#poster#great posters for this movie but this one >
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Chi sei? (Beyond the Door, 1974)
"This is my child, mine, do you hear? I'll never let you kill it. It will be born. I'll kill anyone who tries to take him from me! I assure you, he will be born!"
#Chi sei?#Beyond the door#the devil within her#italian cinema#1974#Ovidio G. Assonitis#Robert Barrett#Antonio Troiso#juliet mills#Gabriele lavia#richard johnson#Nino segurini#Elizabeth Turner#Barbara fiorini#David Colin Jr.#Vittorio fanfoni#George montage#Edmund purdom#Franco Micalizzi#Probably best known internationally by the title Beyond the Door (and spawning various quasi sequels of differing legitimacy) this was#Known in the UK (in a slightly longer and more gratuitous cut) as The Devil Within Her (confusingly also one of the many titles Peter#Sasdy's I Don't Want to be Born‚ from the same year‚ was known by). An Italian American coproduction shot on Italian soundstages but set#(and location filming done in) San Francisco. The cast is typically international‚ but the style is unmistakably more Italian than American#In that it was shot without sound and entirely dubbed afterwards (and in its very existence as a euro ripoff of a major US movie) (that#Wasn't lost on Warner Bros‚ who sued‚ a case that took several years to settle). So an Italian Exorcist ripoff‚ with all the pea soup vomit#You could shake a stick at. Mills‚ to her credit‚ goes all in for this movie (I sincerely hope she was well paid) and Johnson‚ a veteran of#Many cheap Italian schlockers (with more to come) is his usual dependable self. Some weird choices got made somewhere along the line like#Giving the kids these bizarre 70s hip personalities‚ or having Mills eat a banana skin on the street‚ but mostly this is a solidly weird#Supernatural slop with a couple of stand out scenes (a bedroom light show of horrors that prefigures Poltergeist by several years)
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