Showing posts with label MASSIMO DALLAMANO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MASSIMO DALLAMANO. Show all posts

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Movie Ads of the Week: The Many Faces of SOLANGE (1974-1977)



Massimo Dallamano's COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE?, featuring Fabio Testi and Camille Keaton, was picked up for U.S. distribution by Hallmark Releasing Corporation in 1973 and apparently screened as both WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? and then SOLANGE before arriving in Pittsfield, MA as BLOOD RELATIONS on April 5, 1974. Like other Hallmark horror releases of the period, the ads recycle the "It's only a movie" tag line from the company's most notorious hit, Wes Craven's LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. Craven later borrowed the BLOOD RELATIONS title for a screenplay that eventually became his second film, THE HILLS HAVE EYES.


At the same time this beloved giallo was playing some areas as BLOOD RELATIONS, American International was sub-distributing it as TERROR IN THE WOODS. The ad above is from Louisville, KY on April 17, 1974.


If you've watched Garagehouse Pictures' Blu-ray TRAILER TRAUMA, then you already know that THE RAH RAH GIRLS is yet another title for Dallamano's '72 thriller (That trailer came from the Temple of Schlock Archives, by the way). The ad above is from Bloomington, IL on July 17, 1977. SEX ON THE GROOVE TUBE (1976), another Hallmark release, is a downright fraudulent re-titling of THE CASE OF THE FULL MOON MURDERS (1973) a.k.a. THE CASE OF THE SMILING STIFFS, with voiceovers added to trick viewers into thinking it’s a sequel to THE GROOVE TUBE. It's also heavily edited from a self-applied X rating to an MPAA-approved R.


Yet another title for the film is THE SCHOOL THAT COULDN'T SCREAM, seen above playing in Chicago on October 21, 1977 co-billed with LAST HOUSE PART II, a reissue of Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD, which Hallmark had already released as CARNAGE and TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE.


Since Hallmark sometimes used the same title for more than one movie (DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT and HORROR HOSPITAL were both released as DEATH WARD #13, for example), we'll assume in the ad above that THE RAH RAH GIRLS is another Hallmark release and not the Massimo Dallamano film mistakenly booked with itself as THE SCHOOL THAT COULDN'T SCREAM in Limerick, PA on June 3, 1977. Our guess is that it was PRIVATE SCHOOL GIRLS (GEFÄHRLICHER SEX FRÜHREIFER MÄDCHEN).

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Movie Ad of the Week: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? (1977) a.k.a. THE COED MURDERS (1980)



Massimo Dallamano's LA POLIZIA CHIEDE AIUTO/POLICE CALL FOR HELP (1974) opened in 14 theaters in the New York area on March 18, 1977 under the title WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? Two years later, distributor Peppercorn-Wormser closed up shop and sold their library to Nicholas M. Demetroules of NMD Film Distributing (This explains why HOUSE OF EXORCISM, BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS, MONDO MAGIC, DUEL IN THE TIGER DEN, THE SHE-BEAST and other Peppercorn-Wormser releases were still playing theaters in the '80s). Demetroules re-released the Dallamano film as THE COED MURDERS, and on November 28, 1980, sub-distributor Bedford Entertainment opened it on 21 screens in the NY area -- including a few of the same screens that had played it three and a half years earlier.


Sunday, June 27, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: THE COED MURDERS (1980)



LA POLIZIA CHIEDE AIUTO (1974)

U.S. release in 1977 as WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? (from Peppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises)

Re-released in 1980 as THE COED MURDERS by NMD Film Distributing


Sunday, February 14, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: ANNIE (1976)


LA FINE DELL'INNOCENZA (1976)

U.S. release in 1976 as ANNIE ("The True Story of Annie Belle")

Trivia: Map Film Co. is actually American International Pictures

Sunday, January 04, 2009