Movie Ad of the Week: SCENES FROM A MURDER w/ TORSO (1975)

Giallo time! This Euro-thriller double biller (plus a bonus hit) opened in Mt. Pleasant, PA on July 1975. L'ASSASSINO… È AL TELEFONO (1972), starring Telly Savalas and Anne Heywood, was released by Cinema Shares International in 1975 as SCENES FROM A MURDER. It was directed by Alberto De Martino and photographed by Joe D'Amato. The co-feature, Sergio Martino's I CORPI PRESENTANO TRACCE DI VIOLENZA CARNALE (1973) -- starring Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, and John Richardson -- made the rounds in the U.S. as TORSO from Joseph Brenner Associates beginning in late 1974. The bonus third feature is POINT OF TERROR, an American shocker starring Peter Carpenter and Dyanne Thorne, released by Crown International beginning in 1971.

Movie Ad of the Week: HOLY WEDNESDAY w/ WEB OF THE SPIDER and DIARY OF AN EROTIC MURDERESS (1975)

This triple bill of "super suspense horror" opened at the Palmetto Drive-In theater in Florence, SC on December 18, 1975.

HOLY WEDNESDAY, also released as FANGS, was filmed in 1973 by writer-director Art Names, and stars Les Tremayne, Janet Wood, Bebe Kelly, Marvin Kaplan, Alice Nunn, and Bruce Kimball. Its regional release through World Wide Films began in December '74.

The second feature, WEB OF THE SPIDER, was directed by Antonio Margheriti and is a remake of his 1964 film CASTLE OF BLOOD. Shot in Rome in 1971, it stars Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier (in the Barbara Steele role), and Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe. Cinema Shares International released it here in 1975.

DIARY OF AN EROTIC MURDERESS, another Cinema Shares release from '75, was filmed in Madrid in 1973 as LA ENCADENADA. Starring Richard Conte, Marisa Mell and Anthony Steffen, it was directed by Manuel Mur Oti.

One-Sheet of the Week: RUSH (1984)

RUSH (1983)

U.S. release in 1984

One-Sheet of the Week: FISTS OF BRUCE LEE (1978)

FU JI (1977)

U.S. release as FISTS OF BRUCE LEE in 1978