An interview with Jay Colligan, star of Cruel Jaws
Jay played Tommy in Cruel Jaws. If you've seen the film, you'll most certainly remember Tommy. He spouts some wonderfully absurd lines of dialogue ("I'm the purser in charge of pussy!") and delivers a performance that exudes enthusiasm making him a likeable presence in the film.
Strike Commando – Italian poster
Reb Brown spends much of the movie screaming, so it's appropriate that pretty much every poster for Strike Commando features the hero opened mouthed and furious.
Sexual training montage courtesy of the SS
In SS Girls, Mattei directly "borrows" from Salon Kitty and gives us a wild, and very silly, sexual training montage where SS-trained girls are forced to fuck fat and deformed men, fire guns, fence, and, uh, spin around in lycra suits.
Cruel Jaws (1995)
While it may be the laziest and shittiest work of his career, and it's certainly the most shameless as he steals from both Universal and his Italian peers, Bruno Mattei made magic with Cruel Jaws. Stupid magic, but magic nonetheless.
Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso. Two names that strike fear, joy or a combination of both into the hearts of all Italian horror nuts. These men were responsible for some truly horrifying titles, including Fragasso’s infamous solo effort Troll 2 (1990). For me, the Mattei/Fragasso stamp is a sign that a movie will be a...
