The last days of the Italian exploitation industry were dark days indeed, bringing us such cinematic train wrecks as Frankenstein 2000 (Return from Death), Quest for the Mighty Sword (Ator III: The Hobgoblin), Black Demons (Demoni 3), Shocking Dark (Terminator 2), Metamorphosis (Re-Animator 2), Crawlers (Troll 3), Beyond Darkness (La Casa 5), and of course, the greatest bad movie of them all, Troll 2 (Troll 2). The budgets were smaller, live audio was used rather than dubbing all the sounds and dialogue in post-production, the casts featured less recognized Italian, and English speaking stars, usually opting for inexperienced actors who, combined with the struggles of reading scripts poorly translated from Italian into English, and working with directors and crews who could hardly speak English, gave very awkward, wooden performances, often riddled with line flubs or bad deliveries of dialogue which, as you'd expect, flew completely over the director's heads and the effects and props used were usually of a very poor quality. With only a handful of horror films being released around 1990-92, all of which were a serious drop in quality compared to what was being produced during the 70s and 80s.
The 1990s spelled the end for the Italian horror/exploitation industry.
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