The Female Executioner [Blu-ray w/Slipcover] Natasha Lyonne It remains perhaps the strangest

It remains perhaps the strangest Italian Gothic ever made: The sole feature by enigmatic director Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo – here using the anglicized pseudonym ‘Finney Cliff’ – combines familiar murder mystery elements of THE CAT AND THE CANARY with odd dollops of mad doctors

and some of the most insane explosions of graphic carnage in the entire Andy oeuvre

with Bava’s swansong restored from a 16MM print discovered in the RAI vault by film preservationists Simone Starace and the late Michele De Angelis

Graham Humphreys Concept Gallery With Commentary By Richard Stanley

The Female Executioner [Blu-ray w/Slipcover] Natasha Lyonne It remains perhaps the strangestLegendary adult film performer Brigitte Lahaie launched her mainstream acting career and subsequently became a French cultural icon with this 1986 Parisian exploitation hit: Lahaie is Detective Martine Savignac, a tough vice cop who specializes in busting the most extreme pornographers. But when a porno queenpin snatches her kid sister for revenge, Martine will take on a city full of pimps, pushers, human traffickers, the Chinese mob and every man she