BradNot sure if I can stand watching Luigi Cozzi movies two weeks in a row, but I’ll play it by ear.
On Friday, #TheLastDriveIn showed The Last Horror Film (1982), which featured like 1/3rd of the cast of Luigi Cozzi’s Starcrash: Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell, and Judd Hamilton.
I never thought I’d say this, but I would not mind rewatching Starcrash now.
Not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but Zeus is played by Claudio Cassinelli, who was in a number of 1970s giallo and poliziottechi films, but who tragically died in a helicopter accident during filming of Sergio Martino’s Terminator rip-off Hands of Steel (1986).
Petrified stone person: *blinks*
Critics: It’s ghastly! It’s hell on earth! Take it away!
Flora is played by Laura Lenzi, who played the mom in Lucio Fulci’s cursed archeological horror film, Manhattan Baby (1982).
I wondered if she is related to director Umberto Lenzi but judging from their bios and an IMDb collaboration search, I doubt it.
If you have any questions about tonight’s film, simply book a trip to Rome and visit director Luigi Cozzi at his store [correction: the store he manages], Profondo Rosso.
The photos of Luigi Cozzi’s Profondo Rosso store on Google Maps are really something. I guess it’s part store, part museum.
Is Cozzilla a “mondo” film?
Re: WWII footage in Cozzilla
The year before, the film All This and World War II was released, then pulled from theaters. It combined WWII newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs.
All prints were rumored to be destroyed, but there’s a copy on YT. How bad was it? Well, the opening credits introduce the Nazis, perpetrators of the Holocaust, set to “The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away.”
How did this get made?
bobert@bk1e Looks like it's owned by Daria Argento ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profondo_Rosso_(store) ). But great find, I need to visit.
@combatwombat Oops, I thought he owned it. Apparently he manages it ( https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/profondo-rosso-rome ) and I saw something else that said he used to be a co-owner.
