Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to deal with one of the

very late Masters of Horror, Michael Suave.

Specifically Italian horror, because this is a filmmaker who came along in the late 80s and early 90s,

towards the end of a long 20-year golden age of Italian horror cinema. He was somebody who emerged in the dregs of, you know, after the golden age of

Mario Bava, after the golden age of Dario Argento, during the, I say with affection, sewer years

of Bruno Matei. And he was a guy that was essentially, I don't know if I'll say the first,

but one of the most present of the movie brats.

If you look at all the horror films that were made in Italy in the late 60s, 70s, 80s, they were often done by people who maybe they loved horror, like Derari Argento was very clear about that.

But then you have other people like Umberto Lensie or even Luchel Fulci who they were horror filmmakers, but you get the sense that like, uh, maybe we could have done something else.

I mean, Luchel Fulci did do early on in his career tons of different stuff, but we don't talk about any of it.

We talk about his horror films.

Well, most of those guys did, with the possible exception of Dario Argento, who hit it big very early on as a director of like thrillers and horror films, all those guys like Fulci, Joe Domato were just journeymen who did comedies, westerns, whatever the trend was, and then horror movies.

And the horror movies are typically the ones that we remember.

And Suave is a guy that doesn't really have like a shocking story of how he got into the industry.

I read somewhere that he was a little bit wealthy, which allowed him to get into the film industry,

but he was a guy who just loved this kind of stuff, that his dream was to be Dario Argento's

assistant director.

And he said in many interviews that, like, once he reached that dream, he couldn't

even, like, fathom being a director himself. And, like, if you look at his filmography, this is what

you cut your teeth on, working, becoming friends with Joe Demado, who, if you're not aware of who

he is, like, I'm saying it very affectionately, the sewer rung of Italian exploitation cinema. Yeah, the hackiest of all

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