Thrilling Story (1975)

aka Giochi Erotici di una Famiglia Per Bene.
  Highly implausible and totally unbelievable giallo starring Donald O'Brien, Erica Blank and Malisa Longo.
 Written by Italian sleaze master Renato Polselli for director Francesco degli Espinosa (Enzo Matassi) it has everything you would expect  from one of Polselli's own movies, nightmares, drug induced hallucinations and the obligatory sapphic shenanigans.
  It has a certain charm in it's trashiness and at under 80 minutes doesn't overstay it's welcome but the end result is still a mess.
  On  more than one occasion scenes cut from day to night and back again for no apparent reason, continuity is not strong here.

Interrabang (1969)

Very stylishly shot Italian murder mystery from director Giuliano Biagetti with a great soundtrack
from Berto Pisano (supposedly a copy of the lp sold on ebay for $1000 before the CD re-release).
  Three models are stranded on an island when their boat breaks down just as a dangerous convict
escapes from police custody, is he the man they encounter on the shore or not?
  The plot sounds pretty standard but there are enough twists along the way to keep you hooked and an ending that i never saw coming at all.
The three leads are all incredibly photogenic and the scenery quite stunning, this is a beautiful film to look at no doubt.

The Glass Ceiling (1971)

El Techo De Cristal.
 This strange claustrophobic Spanish movie from Eloy de la Iglesia director of the notorious Cannibal Man is part kitchen sink melodrama and part giallo.
  Carmen Sevilla believes neighbour Patty Shepard (a Paul Naschy regular) has murdered her husband and fed the body to her landlords dogs, but has she really or is it all in her overactive imagination.
 A real slow burner that builds to a perfectly ambiguous ending this is a hugely underrated and virtually unknown Spanish movie that deserves to be equally as well known as the director's more famous 'video nasty'.

The Sister Of Ursula (1978)

An incredibly sleazy giallo from director Enzo Milioni starring Suspiria's Barbara Magnolfi that really doesn't have much to recommend it.
 The usual black gloved killer is on the loose in a coastal hotel with a choice of weapon that has to be seen to be believed.
 The flesh quota is cranked up to the level usually found in a Jess Franco flic and indeed a few of the shots around the hotel and coastal locations reminded me of any number of Franco's films. There's also a very Rollinesque (?!) scene in an underground cavern that while stylishly shot feels out of place and as a result just adds to the overall disjointed feel of the movie.
 Not a high point in Italian cinema that's for sure.

L'Isola Delle Svedesi (1969)

Also known as Twisted Girls and No Man's Island this rarely seen Silvio Amadio effort is a fairly enjoyable melodrama with thriller elements.
  Catherine Diamant and Ewa Green star as friends whose relationship becomes obsessive and deadly when an abusive boyfriend arrives on their ideal mediterranean island.
  Beautifully photographed by Joe D'Amato who started his career as a cinematographer before turning to directing and featuring a lightweight but effective score from Roberto Pregadio it's certainly not as an accomplished movie as Amadio's excellent Amuck but is definitely worth a watch.

Wolfguy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975)

This Sonny Chiba flic finds our star playing Inugami, an investigative journalist who also happens to be the last living member of a clan of  werewolves.
 Director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi serves us yakuza gangs, shady government organisations, cursed singers and and gore by the bucket as victims are ripped apart by invisible tigers in what he police label 'spectral deaths'.
 Disappointingly we never see Chiba as a werewolf but do get to witness his super strength and healing powers alongside his usual fighting prowess.
  It's not a great film by any measure but is a diverting 90 minutes and an interesting curio in Chiba's body of work.

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)

Disgraced policewoman Miki Sugimoto is given a chance to redeem herself if she will infiltrate a gang of kidnappers and rescue a high ranking politicians daughter.
  Director Yukio Noda pretty much throws everything at the screen  in this enjoyable example of Japanese trash cinema at it's  most wild. Characters don't just bleed when they're shot they literally erupt geysers of blood, and the violence is so over the top as to almost go beyond shocking.
 There are some rather large holes in the plot at times and logic does seem to take a back seat in many of the characters actions but  it all just adds to the overall madness of the whole thing.
  Politically incorrect to the extreme and wildly over the top, this is what the Japanese do best.