HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARROLL BAKER

    

    Happy Birthday Giallo Goddess Carroll Baker !! Sure she made bunches of stuff in Hollywood, but Carroll went over to Italy in the late 60's to make a series of Giallo films (in which she proudly shed her clothes) with the best of them being directed by Umberto Lenzi. She was one of the first American stars to make that journey. I got to meet her at a Chiller Con back in the 90's and she was beyond sweet as she patiently answered all my Giallo-geek questions. She starred in THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH 1968, ORGASMO 1969, SO SWEET...SO PREVERSE 1969, PARANOIA 1970, KNIFE OF ICE 1972 & BABY YAGA 1973 among others.

The LIZARD is Coming......

  

    Over on their Facebook page Mondo Macrabo has posted some exciting news in the form of a blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci's weird & trippy 1971 giallo A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN.  Starring Florinda Bolkan (FLAVIA THE HERETIC & MACHINE GUN MCCAIN), along with psychedelic nightmares, LSD trips, sex orgies and bloody hallucinatory murders. Also with Stanley Baker and an appropriately weird & trippy score by Ennio Morricone (which has recently been released in a spiffy 2 CD set by Beat Records).
    The release date and special features are TBA, but it is coming later this year.

SUSPIRIA : Early Looks At Upcoming Synapse Restoration

  

  Over on their Facebook page Don May & Synapse Films have provided a link to the Shock Till You Drop website that has some news (and a sneak preview) concerning their 4k restoration work on Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977). To say the provided images look ravishing is an understatement and this is really shaping to be mind blowing release.