In the wake of both George Miller’s Mad Max 2 (1981), the Italian film industry initiated a cycle of low-budget look-alikes which took many of the elements of Miller’s film, blended them with ideas pilfered from John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) and seasoned them with the kind of garish costume design, impoverished production … Continue reading
With a few honourable exceptions, whenever a director starts resorting to tricksy photography and other gimmicks, you know deep in the pit of your stomach that they’re up to something, that their furiously grandstanding, trying desperately to distract us away from their productions other failings. So when director John Lafia reaches for his zoom lens … Continue reading
