Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)

Original title: Maciste Contro i Cacciatori di Teste

Peplum. Italy. Starring Kirk Morris. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

NS (Taiwan). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

As many other films starring the ever expressionless (the Michael Myers of the pepla?) Kirk Morris it's cheap, illogical and badly made - but with a certain wild and bizarre quality that has its fascination! 2/5

Goliath Against the Giants (1961)

Original title: Goliath Contro i Giganti

Peplum. Italy/Spain. Starring Brad Harris, Gloria Milland, Fernando Rey & Nello Pazzafini. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

DVD: RHV (Italy). English/italian language options. Widescreen. Very good quality.

Silly Malatesta-fun with giants, seamonsters, amazons, an evil king etc. Entertaining! 3/5

Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)

Original title: Maciste Contro i Cacciatori di Teste

Peplum. Italy. Starring Kirk Morris. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

Filmax (Spain). English/spanish language option. Widescreen. Good quality.

As many other films starring the ever expressionless (the Michael Myers of the pepla?) Kirk Morris it's cheap, illogical and badly made - but with a certain wild and bizarre quality that has its fascination! 2/5

Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)

Original title: Maciste Contro i Mostri

Peplum. Italy. Starring Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee, Luciano Marin, Andrea Aureli & Birgit Bergen. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

Pepikahs Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

This is one of those craptastic low budget peplum/fantasy cheeze-fests that italians cranked out like crazy during the early sixties (often starring C-list "actors" like Dan Vadis and Kirk Morris) and that have entertained ten year olds and immature B-movie buffs like myself ever since. Noone would mistake this for a good movie, but it's a minor classic of its kind. It's about our hero Maciste ("Maxus" or "Hercules" in some prints) who basically just walks around in stoneage and slays some monsters, rights a few wrongs or fights a bunch of evil cavemen who likes to kidnap blond cuties in fur bikinis and perfect make-up. What more do you need when Reg Lewis is simply the perfect sword and sandal cheeze hero? Why? He throws a mighty fine boulder, sports a bloody rockabilly due that could only have been made in heaven and delivers his lines with the bombastic and smug diginitide of a peplum God! Why he only got to put on the loin-cloth in this one Cinecittà role I will never understand... 4/5 (entertainment value)

Fire Over Rome (1965)

Original title: L'incendio di Roma

Peplum. Italy/Yugoslavia. Starring Lang Jeffries, Mario Feliciani, Moira Orfei, Luciano Marin & Vladimir Medar. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

Draaipleizer (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly).

These praetorians vs. christians peplum dramas simply aren't my thing... 2/5

Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas (1965)

Peplum. Italy. Starring Kirk Morris, Barbara Loy & Andrea Aureli. Directed by Guido Malatesta.
AVO Film (Italy). Italian language. Fullscreen.

Incredible, intoxicating Grade Z peplum, which consists mostly of scenes from Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules and Colossus and the Headhunters (and probably some other peplum I can't place) and some badly shot new footage with B-list peplum star Kirk Morris. As you may have guessed it all makes no sense whatsoever. 3/5 (entertainment value)

Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)

Original title: Maciste Contro i Cacciatori di Teste

Peplum. Italy. Starring Kirk Morris. Directed by Guido Malatesta.

VEP (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

You've got to love that cover! As many other films starring the ever expressionless (the Michael Myers of the pepla?) Kirk Morris it's cheap, illogical and badly made - but with a certain wild and bizarre quality that has its fascination! 2/5