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Pulp International - A+Bay+of+Blood

Dec 16 2008

TWITCH & SHOUT

If you think naming a film is easy, you try it.

What we love most about this poster for Mario Bava’s summer of 1971 horrorfest Ecologia del delitto is when time came to release the film in the U.S. that December, some folks thought Twitch of the Death Nerve was a better title. They could have just translated the original Italian, ended up with Chain Reaction, and at that point exchanged high-fives and headed off to lunch at Spago. But they instead succumbed to the time-honored cinematic tradition of overthinking a solution. After all, what is a chain reaction? Are we talking about events or chemicals? Or could it actually have to do with chains? It’s way too ambiguous. So, using their rationale, we removed the ambiguity from the titles of five well-known films, to end up with titles that are in fact ten times more ambiguous. See if you can guess what movies we started with.

Armed Among the Amish
Fergus and the Unexpected Penis
Who Boiled Roger Rabbit?
The Priest Who Went Up a Staircase But Came Out a Window
They’re Here, We Fear, Get Oozed By Them

Answers:
Witness, The Crying Game, Fatal Attraction, The Exorcist, Poltergeist

Italy Ecologia del delitto Twitch of the Death Nerve A Bay of Blood Reazione al catena Mario Bava poster art cinema horror giallo

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