Sergio Bergonzelli Movies
- 1989
Italian filmmaker Sergio Bergonzelli (Nelle Pieghe della Carne) directed this ridiculous horror film starring John Phillip Law as another in the long line of the genre's crazed artists. Reminiscent of A Bucket of Blood and Color Me Blood Red, the film delights in showing Law painting with blood, ranting about being the reincarnation of Van Gogh, and pursuing pianist Brigitte Christensen. He wants her to replace his dead wife, whose corpse sits at the piano in his stately castle. The dead wife isn't spared either, getting molested by Law's necrophiliac butler (former sword-and-sandal star Gordon Mitchell), who spends his spare time sawing up local women. To add to the catalogue of silliness, Law gets his ear lopped off by a ghost before the castle comes tumbling to the ground. Absolute trash, this one is for completists and masochists only. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1978
This entertaining potboiler from Italian director Sergio Bergonzelli (Nelle Pieghe della Carne) casts William Berger as Senator Albertizi, who invites trampy thieving druggie Manuela (Karin Well) and her two boyfriends to one of his perverse orgies. They only go there to blackmail him, but end up killing him instead when the randy politician puts the moves on one of the guys. Carlo de Mejo shows up as the Senator's son and shoots Manuela, but she survives when the Senator's daughter (Barbara Rey), who also happens to be her ex-lover, saves her life. That's only part of the twisted story line in this engagingly trashy romp, which is full of familiar faces (Arthur Kennedy, Alida Valli, Monica Zanchi) and outrageous developments. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1975
Cult filmmaker Sergio Bergonzelli (Nelle Pieghe della Carne) directed this standard softcore melodrama starring Karin Well as Monica, a lusty young lady who can't manage to keep her hands off her new brother-in-law (Robert Woods). Screenwriter Piero Regnoli filled Italian theaters with countless seamy exploitation films just like this one for years. In 1975 alone he was responsible for this film, La Collegiale, L'Adolescente, Blue Jeans, La Dolci Zie, L'Educanda, Quella eta Maliziosa, and Lo Stallone, the titles of which reveal their preoccupations quite nicely. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Anna Maria Pierangeli (aka "Pier Angeli") stars in this confusing giallo thriller from director Sergio Bergonzelli. She and Eleonora Rossi Drago are incestuous mother and daughter maniacs in a gruesome story involving Nazis, flesh-eating vultures, decapitation, and -- worst of all -- Fernando Sancho in a bathtub. Pierangeli went on to make the dreadful American monster movie Octaman before committing suicide. Bergonzelli returned to the genre 18 years later with Delirio di Sangue.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eleonora Rossi-Drago
- 1967
In this high-seas adventure, framed by the Napoleonic War, a pirate is sponsored by the government to save those living on the captured islands. In his spare time, he has a romantic fling, and tries to save his fiancee from villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gérard Barray, Antonella Lualdi, (more)
