All Italian horror movies are dreadful


Yes, you read that, I am declaring that all Italian horror movies are dreadful. They are low budget garbage and the acting is terrible pretty much all of the time. The gore effects might have been good in their day but now they are hilarious. The stories are all over the place and each scene is created as a set up for the next gore scene. The music is usually hilarious and sounds worse than the soundtrack to a porn movie from the 70's. The everyone is *beep* endings are boring and make me feel like I just wasted my time attempting to invest in the characters. Speaking of the characters, it is virtually impossible to care about any of them as they are usually so dull and one dimensional that you cannot wait for them to get killed, so at least one aspect of viewing is usually satisfied. I could go on and on about this for hours. I grew up on these movies and a few years ago thought it would be good to visit my past. Only three films still impress me. The thing because it still looks good today and is well acted with a good story. Dawn of the dead because I still care about the people trying to survive and the journey they go on is still interesting. Return of the living dead because it is still funny, well acted, filmed beautifully and has a soundtrack that never gets dull.

P.S New horror movies are usually worse.

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Couldn't disagree more. But hey, that's cinema for you.

Some of the acting, especially from a few notable giants, is fantastic.

Yes, the dubbing is sometimes a hindrance, but usually remedied if an Italian audio release is found.

Italian horror, certainly in the 70s was being churned out ten a penny, but you always had gems, and applies so to the accidental trash that so many, including me love - sh*t, no zombie film has entertainment value like Bianchi's BURIAL GROUND, or Mattei's *beep* bonkers HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka loads of other titles). But you have the following classics for sure, of which most have soundtracks far beyond US studio soundtracks, and are invariable *beep* class:

SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS
BLOOD & BLACK LACE
SUSPIRIA
SALO: 120 DAYS OF SODOM
THE BEYOND
THE CASE OF THE SCORPION TALE
YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM...AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY
BLACK SUNDAY
THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN
PROFONDO ROSSO
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS
LIZARD IN A WOMANS SKIN
THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES
BUIO OMEGA
STAGE FRIGHT
BLACK MAGIC RITES
INFERNO
TULPA
NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS
etc.etc.etc.

To advise in a good hearted nature, I would suggest you change your subject to "'I THINK' ALL ITALIAN HORROR FILMS ARE DREADFUL" and declare this so, then you are simply.....wrong.x

ps. not sure what "new horror movies are worse means" - are you saying quality quality is established and based from and through time? Just wondering..... ;-)

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I agree. Italian movies are really boring when you watch them nowadays.

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I'd submit that attention spans are nonexistent these days and that you and the OP were probably both looking at Instagram or Twitter when this movie was playing instead of paying attention to it. What's boring is you, not the film.

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I agree. Most of them suck ESPECIALLY Fulci's.






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