Saturday, February 7, 2026

Arpie (1987) (Italy)

aka The Harpies

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Another Super 8 slice of heaven from Fabio Salerno focuses on a young woman named Veronica who has a monstrous secret. She’s some sort of harpy-demon-thing who spends her free time murdering men who come into her home. The disappearance of a store clerk brings two detectives to her door but they dismiss her as a suspect almost immediately. One of the cops drops his keys and when he goes back inside he discovers a basement full of bodies. Veronica takes him out with an electric knife but his partner manages to gun her down. He believes the nightmare to be over but when he sees her on the street a few days later he realizes the shit storm has just begun. Fabio Salerno scores another winner with this weirdo monster flick that manages to be more charming than terrifying. Cheap but awesome special effects are sprinkled throughout the runtime as Veronica does mortal damage to various folks she meets. A severed head pops up in a woman’s bed, looking like a badly burnt potato with glowing eyes, the same woman gets a knife to the noggin for her troubles. It all climaxes with a Demons-inspired body breakout by the titular creature. Backyard fun of the highest (well, lowest) quality.

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