Italy's peplum genre was produced and directed by Antonio Avati in 1977 titled Kolossal: i magnifici Macisti (aka Kino Kolossal). Sword-and-sandal films are...

Sword-and-sandal films, a derogatory reference to the genre of Greco-Roman Era costume/adventure films mostly produced in Italy, also known as "peplum". Péplum (novel)...

historical drama films Greek mythology in popular culture Peplum (film genre) Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore...

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter...

(2023) Mythica: Stormbound (2024) List of high fantasy films and TV series Peplum (film genre) McCullough V, Joseph A. (20 March 2022). "The Demarcation...

films like Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub series also fall under historical drama umbrella. Peplum films also known as sword-and-sandal, is a genre of...

the only western film of the Eurospy and peplum film genre star Lang Jeffries. The film is partially based on Masaki Kobayashi's film Harakiri. Spaghetti...

Maciste contro il vampiro) is a 1961 Italian peplum film directed by Sergio Corbucci and Giacomo Gentilomo. The film features the famed superhero Maciste as...

Theater 3000. Dell Four Color #1121 (August 1960) List of films featuring Hercules Peplum film genre Samson Hercules Sons of Hercules Maciste Ursus Goliath...

(Ben Hur, The Magnificent Gladiator, Quo Vadis). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are Hannibal (1959), Revak the...

an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler...

create an "organic, gourd or pumpkin kind of effect", which includes the peplum at the waist, the flared, skirt-like fabric blossoming from below his doublet...

mid-1960s. As the péplum genre faded, Scott starred in Spaghetti Westerns and Eurospy films. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers (filmed in 1966; released...

of peplum films with good commercial success. He had the distinction as being one of the very few native Italians to play the heroes of the peplum features...

Rossini; 10 January 1941) is an Italian film actor. Born in Rome, Rossini got his first major roles in peplum films. In the mid-1960s, he adopted the stage...

the time of the film's release, modern genre critics review the film more positively. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating...

Guccione Film. McFarland. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-7864-5240-8. Kristopher Spencer (2008). Film and Television Scores, 1950–1979: A Critical Survey by Genre. McFarland...

Roma contro Roma), also known as War of the Zombies, is a 1964 Italian peplum film directed by Giuseppe Vari. Roman centurion Gaius is dispatched to the...

English version of the film he was dubbed by Jackson Beck who voiced Bluto in the Popeye cartoons. Forest continued in the peplum genre, active in Rome from...

gothic imagery." The film started a short-living subgenre of films trying to combine the peplum genre with horror elements. Films considered belonging...

same year in Raffaello Matarazzo's film The White Angel. She then acted in a number of films of the peplum or drama genre, sometimes under the pseudonym Margaret...

December 2022) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. His career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco...

the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Leone's film-making style includes...

films in a variety of popular genres such as Swashbucklers, Peplum and Eurospy films, turning out roughly a hundred films before the company ceased production...

Arrow (1949 film), British comedy The Golden Arrow (1962 film), Italian peplum genre adventure Golden Arrow (seaplane), 1929 Schneider Trophy racing aircraft;...

found the film similar to others of the genre, with little new to offer. Neil Gaiman reviewed She for Imagine magazine, and stated that the film was "just...

in the 1920s, the Italian film industry was revitalized in the 1930s with the arrival of sound film. A popular Italian genre during this period, the Telefoni...

starring Samson Burke; this was a comedy satirizing the peplum genre (part of the Italian "Toto" film series) and was never distributed in the USA; it is...

active in film and television from 1952 and 1979. He was a popular leading man during the 1950’s and ‘60s, when he was a star of the peplum genre. In the...

mainly active in the Spaghetti Western film genre. Born in Patras, Karis was first active in the peplum genre, in which he was credited with his birth...