flavia the heritic (1974)

aka Flavia, la monaca musulmana. Flavia the Rebel Nun. Flavia, Priestess of Violence. Flavia: Heretic Priestess. The Heretic. The Muslim Nun. The Rebel Nun. "Why is God mad?"
Flavia (Florinda Bolkan), a young nun, questions the scriptures and rules that bind her as a woman and a bride of Christ, and seeing the pain and suffering inflicted on women by men, she rebels when a Muslim army storms the convent, and joins them to exact revenge.
A well made exploitation, with vibrant cinematography, that throws in some feminist critique alongside its condemnation of the Catholic church.

prince of darkness (1987)

"Faith is a hard thing to come by these days."
A group of scientists are recruited by a priest (Donald Pleasence) to investigate a malevolent goo that had been kept in secret in the basement of a church. Could it actually be Satan, held captive?
Interesting premise, that maintains a slow, brooding unease, but never really scares.

emanuelle's revenge (1975)

aka Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline. Blood Vengeance. Demon Rage.
"Why does love bring so much pain, so much hatred?"
Françoise (Patrizia Gori) commits suicide after suffering years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Carlo (George Eastman). Her sister Emanuelle (Rose Marie Lindt) only finds this out at the inquest and sets out to avenge her. The obvious solution is to toy with him before chaining him up in her house and forcing him to watch her having sex!
Shot through with those exploitation essentials, a funky soundtrack, (courtesy of Gianni Marchetti), bright and breezy visuals, and themes of depravity, obsession and revenge. This unerotic thriller also flirts with Giallo as much as with Sexploitation.

viva django (1968)

aka Preparati la bara! Django Sees Red. Django, Prepare a Coffin. Get the Coffin Ready.
"I've only one thing left, hate."
Django (Terence Hill) is left for dead when a gold shipment he is guarding is ambushed. Whilst plotting his revenge he comes up with a novel way of recruiting a gang of his own. He becomes a hangman, saving innocent men, and sets them against the gang that tried to kill him. Unfortunately, whilst saving the wife of one of his men, the husband decides he would rather keep some of the gold for himself...
whilst not a patch on the original Django, this still trots along nicely, with enough variants and twists to keep the viewer happy.

the man who could cheat death (1956)

"What is death that it should be feared so much?"
Dr. Bonner (Anton Diffring) has found a way to live forever, but to do so necessitates regular human gland transplants, and when a woman who has modeled for him goes missing, people start to get suspicious about his ever youthful appearance.
A remake of 'The Man in Half Moon Street' that gathers together a number of Hammer stars, including Christopher Lee, in a rare outing as the hero, and Hazel Court as the damsel in distress. Much talk, and little action renders this a lesser, though still entertaining Hammer.

the funhouse (1981)

"We witnessed a murder man, they are gonna try and kill us."
When four teenagers stay overnight in a carnival fun-house, they inadvertently see a murder, and are subsequently stalked by the killer and his dad.
Fun stalk and slash, that takes a while to get going, but is never flags.

halloween II (1981)

"You don't know what death is."
Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) arrives in the nick of time to save Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from her brother, but having emptied 6 bullets into him, Michael disappears. Meanwhile Laurie is rushed to hospital. I wonder where Michael will head? Yep - the hospital!
Continuing on directly from the first film, this sequel launches straight into the action, but just doesn't match the suspense of the first.