Italian Film Review: All Reviews

Nigel Maskell Editor
Nigel is the founder of Italian Film Review and an avid collector of Italian crime and giallo film. Ennio Morricone, The Lickerish Quartet and Lucio Fulci rock his world. Read Reviews

Jenny Spencer Editor
Author of The Bloody Iris blog Jenny was introduced to Italian horror by watching Demons as a child, but became hooked after Suspiria. She loves zombies, slashers, gialli, Dario Argento, any film with Edwige Fenech, and the soundtracks of Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. Read Reviews

Aaron Stielstra Reviewer
Aaron is an actor, composer, writer, producer and director of See Naples... Then Die. Read Reviews

Brian Bankston Reviewer
Brian grew up watching all manner of genre cinema either at the drive in, or on late night television before the video age turned him on to a whole other world of exploitation exploration. He is the owner and author of coolasscinema.com. Read Reviews

Chad Kaplan Reviewer
Chad is an artist and animator with a passion for history and cinema. He is also the creator of the upcoming animated Eurocrime short film A Bullet, A Badge, And A Beretta. Read Reviews

Geof Capodanno Reviewer
Geof Capodanno is a Masters-educated, marketing professional with an unhealthy obsession for watching horror, comedy and sci-fi genre films or good old fashioned b-movies from the days of USA's Up All Night. He is also the owner of the zany site Enter The Man-Cave. Read Reviews

Jason Meredith Reviewer
Jason fell in love with Italian genre movies after watching Dario Argento’s Inferno on video in the early eighties. Uses references to alternative cinema in his everyday work as a storyteller and producer of TV shows in Sweden. Also runs the CiNEZiLLA blog and named one of his kids after a Russian satellite.Read Reviews

Jim Wilkes Reviewer
Jim is the author of the delightfully sleazy 42nd Street Cinema and is the co-founder of The Bloody Italiana Blog. Read Reviews

John Plumley Reviewer
Film fan with a deep appreciation for Italian horror and gialli, writing under the nom de plume Giovanni Susina on his blog At The Mansion Of Madness. His love for Italian horror was sealed after watching a screening of Lucio Fulci's The Beyond. Read Reviews

Jonny Redman Reviewer
Jonny is the founder of the lovelockandload Eurocult movie forums. Has been into the more 'alternative' side of cinema since watching the horror double bills on the BBC as a 10 year old back in the '70's and found his love for European 'cult' cinema with the video boom in the early '80's Read Reviews

Justin Harries Reviewer
Justin runs and co-curates Filmbar70, a London based film club committed to screening ‘not your average cult’ movie. A dedicated Fenechphile, Justin loves the sexy side of Italian cinema, enduring even the most puerile of sex comedies for a glimmer of glam. You can see his motion tributes here, and find out about the latest Filmbar70 screening here. Read Reviews

Keith Brown Reviewer
Keith is a PhD student and self-employed computer guy who likes films, especially those that are a bit off the beaten track. He is author of the influential Giallo Fever blog. Read Reviews

Mario Gauci Reviewer
Mario has been a film enthusiast for as long as he can remember. Watching movies or reading about them soon wasn't enough and some 10 years ago he started writing about them and writing them as well. Whether he will ever actually make them, remains to be seen... Read Reviews

Michael Fredianelli Reviewer
Michael is an actor, writer, producer and director. He directed The Scarlet Worm starring IFR contributor Aaron Stielstra and is to appear in Italian cannibal movie homage Mondo Holocausto! Read Reviews

Mike Malloy Reviewer
Mike is a filmmaker, actor, writer and the man behind the forthcoming documentary Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films that Ruled the '70s. Read Reviews

Paige Sands Reviewer
Paige is a cinema buff, collector and artist from New Zealand. Her love for Italian cinema began with classics such as Demons, Phenomena, Opera and Suspiria. Read Reviews

Rich Flannagan Reviewer
Rich is old enough to remember scouting around second hand shops for the original video nasties. He is currently buying on blu-ray all the films he already has on DVD or video. Rich writes the 0.50 Action Express blog. Read Reviews

Rob Talbot Reviewer
Growing up on Hammer and Universal Rob turned to the 'nasties' and European genre film as a teenager through 3rd generation tapes, preferring these to disposable Hollywood hamburger cinema. Rob also writes for horror magazines Scream and Diabolique, and updates Mondo Euro whenever he can.Read Reviews

Shaun Anderson Reviewer
Shaun is the author of The Celluloid Highway, and has long held an interest in the more esoteric and offbeat avenues of cinematic history. This interest led him to a Masters Degree in Film Studies and a career trying to get Nunsploitation and Nazisploitation on the academic agenda instead of Jean-Luc Godard. Read Reviews

Zachary Kelley aka T.L.Bugg Reviewer
T.L Bugg is the boss man of
The Lightning Bug's Lair, but in his off hours he likes sipping J&B, cruising in his Fiat, and trying on leather gloves. Read Reviews

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