Aldo Lado did Short Night of the Glass Dolls, and he's a superb director.

This film is a rip-off of Last House on the Left, but set on the train. And it's really fucking creepy. It's got a problem where you can tell the train cars are on a set, but it's really, really scary.

The guys are these really creepy Italian guys and one of them has this whistling theme that was done by Morricone that when you hear it, it really gives you chills.

A lot of the girls on the train and the creepiness in Hostel II is very-much influenced by Night Train Murders.



Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. He did these three fantastic films in a row.

One of them was called One On Top Of Another (pictured), which was also released as Perversion Story. Distributors would always confuse people with the titles of movies. One On Top Of Another is a really good giallo.

Then he made this film Lizard in a Woman's Skin. It's a terrific, terrific movie. It's really got this great, trippy dreamlike imagery in it.

But in between he made this drama called Beatrice Cenci based on a true story about this woman whose father was a wealthy landowner in the 16th century who locked her up in a dungeon in the basement. He was raping her and the family plotted and killed him and they were all executed. There was a huge public outcry about it.

Beatrice Cenci was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

It's never been released in the US. I know there's one French DVD of it, I don't know if it's on DVD in England. It's the best film Lucio Fulci's ever done. It's so fucking good. It starts off right away and you're in it; it doesn't feel like a period movie at all.