#Ovidio G. Assonitis | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

666frames · 2 months

Text

Beyond The Door / The Devil Within Her (1974)

72 notes · View notes

mariocki · 5 months

Text

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

21 notes · View notes

pierppasolini · 1 year

Photo

Beyond the Door (1974) // dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto Piazzoli

#Beyond the Door #Ovidio G. Assonitis #Roberto Piazzoli #my caps #my edits #*beyondthedoor

91 notes · View notes

schlock-luster-video · 4 days

Text

On April 27, 1977, Tentacles debuted in France.

2 notes · View notes

essentialmoviegifs · 5 months

Text

Madhouse (1981, dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis)

#madhouse #michael macrae #ovidio g. assonitis #movie gif

3 notes · View notes

may8chan · 1 year

Photo

The Exterminator - James Glickenhaus 1980 @thedrillerkiller

#The Exterminator #James Glickenhaus #Beyond the Door #Ovidio G. Assonitis

17 notes · View notes

moviesandmania · 7 months

Text

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…

View On WordPress

#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

0 notes

thebutcher-5 · 8 months

Text

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…

View On WordPress

0 notes

tlbodine · 1 year

Text

Two Lesser-Known 1970s Religious Horrors

Our random dice roll gave us "1970s religious horror" this week, which would have been an extremely simple request to fill...if we weren't trying to watch something new.

There are so many wonderful options for 1970s religious horrors, including:

The Omen

Carrie

The Exorcist

The Wickerman

Alice, Sweet Alice

Don't Torture a Duckling

But we did not watch any of those this week. We picked two movies more or less at random through a combination of Googling and narrowing down what we could find streaming. Which is how we landed at...

youtube

The Sentinel (1977) is directed by Michael Winner, based on a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz. The story is about a model whose new brownstone apartment is filled with a great deal of quirky denizens who are, um, not what they appear to be.

OK, I'll just go ahead and spoil it because this movie is very not-great: They're all dead. Everybody in the movie is in hell. The apartment is a hell mouth and now she has to become the new keeper of the gateway as punishment(?) for her suicide attempt (?)

When you type it out, this sounds like it will be cool. It is not. It is a plodding, boring mess that doesn't make much logical sense. It is, however, home to some delightful cameo appearances from baby versions of not-then-famous actors like Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum, which is a treat. But overall the experience of watching this film is like watching Rosemary's Baby, but incompetent.

We watched a movie a while back from China called Rigor Mortis that is very similar to this film except substantially better in every way imaginable. Go watch that one instead.

youtube

Beyond the Door (1974), directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and Roberto Piazzoli, is an Italian-American co-production that has shlocky Italian horror fingerprints all over it. It's charming in a lot of ways, but not especially good.

The story: A man makes a pact with the devil to have his life spared if he can manage to successfully bring the Antichrist into the world. Slight complication is that the Antichrist is currently in the womb of his now-happily-married ex-girlfriend.

Interestingly, this movie got sued by The Exorcist for plagiarism, and they settled the suit, which I think is kind of surprising because while it definitely does rip off The Exorcist in places, it's also shamelessly ripping off Rosemary's Baby and The Omen and in a way that feels more like recycling tropes. Then again, the primacy of 1974 means probably these weren't tropes at that point. Still interesting to me.

This movie is...hm. It's very 1970s, and very Italian. It feels very well-worn. You have seen everything in this movie before, in better movies. But then there are some elements, like the devil's voice-over and the unintentional(?) homoeroticism that are intriguing. And then some, like the bizarrely edgy dialogue of the 10-year-old daughter, that are brow-raising. And then the ending is...uh. hm.

There's a different way to do this movie that would have been really interesting, but it's not this movie.

Both of these films were so dull that I had to go look up the titles again for this post because I immediately forgot them after watching.

#random horror #horror movies #rng horror movies #rng horror #I forgot my tag oops #beyond the door #the sentinel #1970s films #1970s horror

18 notes · View notes

666frames · 7 months

Text

Madhouse (1981)

56 notes · View notes

grindhousefunhouse · 7 months

Video

youtube

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.

Stream Beyond The Door on: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/beyond-the-door https://archive.org/details/beyond-the-door-1974

Buy the Blu-ray from: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Beyond-the-Door-Blu-ray/276444/ https://diabolikdvd.com/product/beyond-the-door-standard-edition-arrow-us-blu-ray/

USE # gf31daysofhorror on all platforms to connect and discuss all them sweet 31 Days Of Horror spooky picks!

PLEASE LIKE! SHARE! & SUBSCRIBE!

➤ Merch Store : https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrindhouseFunhouse

• INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/grindhousefunhouse • FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/grindhousefunhouse • TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/grindfunhouse • REDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/grindhousefunhouse

#youtube #beyond the door #31 days of horror

0 notes

pierppasolini · 1 year

Photo

Beyond the Door (1974) // dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto Piazzoli

#Beyond the Door #Ovidio G. Assonitis #Roberto Piazzoli #my caps #my edits #*beyondthedoor

34 notes · View notes

schlock-luster-video · 1 year

Text

On May 18, 1977, Tentacles debuted in the Netherlands.

2 notes · View notes

docrotten · 2 years

Text

THE VISITOR (1979) – Episode 174 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“That bugs me, man. That really bugs me.” This ends up being Glenn Ford’s key line in his short appearance in this episode’s movie. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they come away with a slew of questions after watching The Visitor (1979) and its star-studded cast.

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 174 – The Visitor (1979)

Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine

Synopsis: The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of good and evil.

Director: Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise)

Writers: (screenplay by) Luciano Comici (as Lou Comici) & Robert Mundi (as Robert Mundy); (story by) Giulio Paradisi & Ovidio G. Assonitis

Selected cast:

Mel Ferrer as Dr. Walker

Glenn Ford as Det. Jake Durham

Lance Henriksen as Raymond Armstead

John Huston as Jerzy Colsowicz

Joanne Nail as Barbara Collins

Sam Peckinpah as Dr. Sam Collins

Shelley Winters as Jane Phillips

Paige Conner as Katy Collins

Franco Nero as Jesus Christ (uncredited)

Chad chose The Visitor for this episode’s discussion, but he confesses that he had no idea what was going on at any given moment during the film. On top of his confusion with the storyline, he was “bored off his hindquarters” while some scenes dragged on forever and ever and ever… To him, it felt like a ripoff of The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976) with a little science fiction twist thrown in. Of course, there was the hate-eliciting kid, dripping with evil, and the inappropriate music backing many scenes.

Though competently made, according to Bill, The Visitor is a mess. The incoherent story seemed to go a little Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) while still not making a lick of sense. Echoing Chad’s feelings about the kid, he admits he cheered when Shelley Winters’ character slapped her. He finishes with, “Of all the WTF 1970s movies we’ve done, this is the WTFest.”

Jeff agrees with Chad that The Visitor is way too long with what seemed like some endless sequences. Once he realized it was an Italian film, the presence of a confusing storyline kind of made sense. The second time he watched it the plot became somewhat less opaque, but he would never recommend that anyone else watch it twice.

The Visitor took some life out of Doc and made his brain hurt trying to figure out what was happening. For him, it plays a lot like Damien: Omen II (1978) with Lance Henriksen even playing a similar part. He also found some unintentionally comedic scenes and while the film has its moments, on the whole, he had to fight to not fall asleep.

Despite the 70s Grue-Crew’s poor impressions, The Visitor does have a cult following and sports an excellent cast that outperforms the material. At the time of this writing, The Visitor is available to stream from Shudder, Peacock, Kanopy, Tubi, and Freevee. The Visitor is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray from Drafthouse.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule, chosen by Doc, will be Hammer’s Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971). That won’t be confusing at all.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at [email protected].

Check out this episode!

0 notes

saturdaynightmatinee · 2 years

Photo

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: Stridulum AKA The Visitor

Año: 1979

Duración: 101 min

País: Italia

Director: Giulio Paradisi

Guion: Ovidio G. Assonitis, Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi, Giulio Paradisi

Música: Franco Micalizzi

Fotografía: Ennio Guarnieri

Reparto: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail, Sam Peckinpah, Shelley Winters, Paige Conner, Ja Townsend, Jack Dorsey, Franco Nero

Productora: Coproducción Italia-Estados Unidos; Brouwersgracht Investments, Film Ventures International (FVI)

Género: Horror, Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080100/

TRAILER:

youtube

0 notes

moviesandmania · 2 years

Text

THE CURSE (1987) Reviews and free to watch online

The Curse is a 1987 science fiction horror film about a meteor that crashes down on a farm and infects the land and its inhabitants. Directed by actor/filmmaker David Keith from a screenplay written by David Chaskin loosely based [uncredited] on the H.P. Lovecraft story ‘The Colour Out of Space’. Produced by Ovidio G. Assonitis. Executive produced by Moshe Diamant. Lucio Fulci was an associate…

View On WordPress

#1987 #Claude Akins #Cooper Huckabee #David Keith #free to watch online #H.P. Lovecraft #Lucio Fulci #movie film #Ovidio G. Assonitis #review reviews #sci-fi horror #The Curse #Wil Wheaton

0 notes