Colin Edwards·Mar 6, 2025‘Maciste in Hell’ or — A Puritanical Peplum?What’s the first thing that automatically springs to mind if I mention the ancient Greek muscleman Hercules, Ursus and Maciste? That’s…
Colin Edwards·Mar 2, 2025‘Hercules in the Haunted world’ or — The Astonishing Beauty of Bava?‘Hercules in the Haunted World’ (1961) follows the famous muscleman as he enters Hades to find the magic stone of Pluto, a stone that’ll…
Colin Edwards·Apr 19, 2024‘Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis’ or — More Exciting than ‘Ben-Hur’?Before the Poliziotteschi, before the Giallo, before the Spaghetti Western was the Peplum, the wildly popular and financially successful…
Kiara Monette·Jul 14, 2022Flare or FailureHow did the peplum go from “15 Trends We’ll Live To Regret” to “Peplum — Back & Better Than Ever”?
