Author Archive: Retro

A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan whereby the barber murders people and the baker makes them into pies to be sold in his shop.

Russian epic where hero Ilya Muromets defends Rus against invading hordes.

Theseus battles the Minotaur to save a princess from sacrifice.

Romantic shortcomings of a singing trio and the girl with whom they all fall in love. English subtitles.

The legendary prophet Nostradamus is reborn from his own ashes and pitted against a vampire-like nemesis. Followed by “The Monster Demolisher”. English dubbed. Dir. Federico Curiel

A detective investigates a cult tied to a yellow snake.

One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.

Io Semiramide is a 1963 film about Semiramis, a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was directed by Primo Zeglio. The legends are in part based on the historical Shammuramat, queen consort of Shamshi-Adad V and regent for her son Adad-nirari III