ARROW PROJECT Archive

  • 007/12/2011

    A Bay of Blood – 1971 / Director: Mario Bava

    A Bay of Blood came near the end of Mario Bava’s career, an Italian director of highly stylized horror, comedy, action movies, and most significantly, several gialli, whose work is…

  • 003/10/2011

    Spirits of the Dead – 1968 / Directors: Roger Vadim, Federico Fellini, Louis Malle

    A trilogy of short supernatural films conceived around the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Spirits of the Dead, or, in its original French incarnation, Histoires Extraordinaires, was helmed by three…

  • 026/09/2011

    Inferno – 1980 /Director: Dario Argento

    Inferno is probably director Dario Argento‘s most underrated feature film. It might even be his most technically accomplished, alongside Suspiria and (arguably) Opera, all three films showcase the director at…

  • 125/09/2011

    Deep Red – 1975 / Director: Dario Argento

    Deep Red is known as one of, if not the, textbook giallo. Conceived, co-written and directed by gialli maestro Dario Argento, Deep Red was shot after his thoroughly unsuccessful attempt…

  • 124/09/2011

    Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento

    Ah, my favourite Dario Argento film. This title means “darkness”, yet the film itself is one of the most brightly-lit films Argento has shot, up until he did The Card…

  • 107/09/2011

    Martin – 1977 / Director: George A. Romero

    Martin is not only one of my favourite vampire films, it is one of my two favourite George Romero films, and one of my top-five favourite films, period. This is…

  • 029/08/2011

    Savage Streets – 1984 / Director: Danny Steinhamm

    Linda Blair is fucking awesome. I’d never seen Savage Streets before, and perhaps it was this complete and utter lack of expectation that caused me to enjoy it as much…

  • 217/08/2011

    Island of Death – 1975 / Director: Nico Mastorakis

    Island of Death is a film that has an automatic infamy in the UK because of its “video nasty” label, due to the fact it was banned outright on its…