Shocking Dark (1989)
Bruno Mattei’s savage, copyright-defying Italian fever dream of space-marine knock-offs and Venetian sewers.
Dead Man Walking (1988)
Gregory Dark’s savage, plague-zone sci-fi fever dream starring Wings Hauser, Jeffrey Combs, and Brion James.
Rush (1983)
Tonino Ricci’s savage, low-budget Italian post-apocalyptic fever dream of nuclear vengeance and golf-cart warfare.
Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984)
Lucio Fulci’s Cyberpunk Masterpiece Strap your eyeballs to the screen and prepare for a high-velocity, neon-drenched descent into Lucio Fulci’s Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984). In a decaying, corporate-dominated Rome where a monolithic TV network controls the masses, the ultimate ratings grab is a resurrected gladiatorial bloodsport held in a high-tech Colosseum, operating under the brutal […]
The Final Executioner (1984)
Read our review of The Final Executioner (1984)—a savage, radiation-soaked Italian fever dream of nuclear vengeance starring Woody Strode. Dare to watch?
The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
The Ultimate Italian Mad Max Rip-Off Choke down a mouthful of radioactive dust and strap yourself into the driver’s seat of Giuliano Carnimeo’s The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983). In a scorched, waterless purgatory where the oceans have evaporated and “the future of humanity is a race against death,” water has replaced currency as the ultimate prize. The […]
Raiders of Atlantis (1983)
Ruggero Deodato’s Unhinged Post-Apocalyptic Masterpiece Cast your mind into the deep, dark abyss of low-budget Italian sci-fi insanity and prepare for Ruggero Deodato‘s Raiders of Atlantis (1983), alternatively unleashed as The Atlantis Interceptors. The narrative engine is ignited off the coast of Miami, where two cynical, battle-hardened mercenaries, Mike and Washington, are hired to protect a scientific research […]
Battletruck (1982)
Why Warlords of the 21st Century (1982) Is a Must-Watch for Mad Max Fans Choke down a shot of high-octane paranoia and head into the desolate, wind-swept gravel pits of the near future, where the catastrophic “oil wars” have left civilization reduced to a lawless heap of scrap metal. This is the staging ground for Harley Cokeliss’ Battletruck (1982), also released […]
2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
The Ultimate Italian Escape from New York Clone Strap into your armored dune buggy and prepare to descend into a radioactive, neon-drenched hellscape in Sergio Martino’s 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983). Set two decades after a nuclear holocaust between the fascist Euraks and the Pan-American Confederacy, the human race is facing total extinction due to global […]