Category: peplum

New to the collection!

At the beginning of November, I went on a break!  The first on this break my main computer crashed. I’m still in the process of recuperating everything from it. It’s going to take some time. Just before my computer crashed, I received a new batch of title I bought at Amazon.de. I’m very happy with it even though there’s always some confusion in regards to the differences of these German Blu-rays. They have multiple versions of the same titles, some with a ‘mediabook’ and some without, with different prices. It’s sometimes hard to figure what is what.

Fortunately, all my movies are stored in external hard drives and nothing was lost. But with the main computer down, and only working with old laptops, finishing BY THE GODS magazine was delayed, yet again. This is just an update to say that new posts will comes in the future but for now I’m still in recovery process.

New films added to my collection!

I usually post about movies released on DVD or Blu-ray here at BY THE GODS! but recently I got a bunch of titles missing from my collection and I’m really happy about it. Two of these titles have been eluding me for over a decade.

THE APOCALYPSE or L’apocalisse, released in 1947. It stars Massimo Serato (above), who’s excellent in it. The copies are less than perfect but the movie is so good it didn’t matter. I’ll have a full review of this in the soon to be published BY THE GODS! magazine.

Another hard to get title is JACOB AND ESAU (1963). Nothing about this movie since I began working on my blog and Youtube channel. I even wrote about it here. Now I got two copies. They are in black and white even if the movie was originally shot in colour. It was the one Ken Clark (above) movie that eluded me. I hope to get this one in colour one day.

The other titles are THE PHARAOHS’ WOMAN (1960), in widescreen. It stars Linda Cristal (above), Pierre Brice, John Drew Barrymore and Armando Francioli (above), who gives an excellent performance. The copy is still battered and old but the colours are better than the previous version and it’s in widescreen. Great film!

And A SWORD IN THE SHADOWS (1961) tarring Germano Longo in what might be one of the best villains in PEPLUM history. It also stars Mario Valdemarin. A nice widescreen print in Italian.

I’ll be getting additional titles soon. Stay tuned!

Two new Artus Films acquisitions…

I got two new Artus Films Blu-ray/DVD sets.

One is for THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GUERRIN MESCHINO, directed by Pietro Francisci, and PERSEUS THE INVINCIBLE, starring Richard Harrison. Both sets are excellent. The sad part of these wonderful releases is the fact that there’s no English audio.

Even if you don’t understand French or Italian, I really recommend these releases. It supports future titles.

I’ll have a full review of GUERRIN MESCHINO in the upcoming BY THE GODS! magazine.

Artus Films

Tamara Lees in THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GUERRIN MESCHINO.

Artus Films releases…

Artus Films has a couple of interesting titles:

PERSEUS THE INVINCIBLE starring Richard Harrison.

This release is a bit odd: it has the Spanish version, which is different from the Italian one, in HD but the Italian one is on regular DVD. So two versions of the same movie, the Spanish one in HD and the original Italian one in regular DVD resolution.

Hopefully, the original Italian version will be released in HD as well.

PERSEUS THE INVINCIBLE at Artus Films

 

THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GUERRIN MESCHINO directed by Pietro Francisci.

This is a rare film from the director of HERCULES (1958). I have one low resolution copy of this so the combo Blu-ray and DVD will be most welcome. Francisci movies are a must.

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF GUERRIN MESCHINO at Artus Films.

Both releases have extensive booklets. I can’t wait to check them out.

It also has a DVD of TIGER OF THE SEVEN SEAS but there’s a newly released Blu-ray of this title so I won’t be buying it for now. The Blu-ray is the one I want.

New X accounts…

I created two new X (aka Twitter) accounts. Mae sure to follow them.

SEMIRAMIS X account

Queens of PEPLUM cinema!

 

MEN OF PULP X account

New AI generated retro images of Men’s Magazines of the past. Totally new recreations and also vintage covers, including PEPLUM stuff.

 

Old X (Twitter) accounts:

PEPLUM TV X account

X account associated with PEPLUM TV blog.

 

MACISTE X account

Dedicated to Heroes (and villains) of PEPLUM cinema.