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Growing up in Latin America, it was always funny to see how movies or TV titles would be translated into Spanish. Some movies would find clever ways of adapting a pun or a joke, but others would completely miss the mark. For example, "Home Alone"  was titled "My Poor Little Angel" in Spanish while "The Sound of Music" had the promising but potentially misleading title of "The Rebel Nun."

Similarly, as "Star Wars" fan, I always thought the Spanish title "La Guerra de las Galaxias," or "The War of the Galaxies," felt like false advertisement. The first movie is literally about a conflict known as the Galactic Civil War, a revolution within a single empire, within a single galaxy. Even when the prequels brought the Clone Wars about, it was still very much a war between sanctions within a single galactic government. Granted, the Expanded Universe (now dubbed Legends) explored the idea of other galaxies,...

Review by Roger Carpenter

Sergio Martino was a journeyman Italian director who averaged around three films a year into the early nineties and who worked in many different genres including documentaries (Naked and Violent), spaghetti westerns (A Man Called Blade), poliziotteschi (The Violent Professionals), sex comedies (Sex with a Smile), and action films (The Great Alligator; Slave of the Cannibal God; 2019: After the Fall of New York). But this blue-collar filmmaker is arguably most famous for his early seventies gialli such as The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail, All the Colors of the Dark, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, and Torso. Each of these gialli films are–rightly so–considered genuine classics of the genre and fans of these films each have their favorite Sergio Martino giallo. However, his final giallo of this period (he...