Delirium Issue One — The Complete Guide to Italian Exploitation Cinema, Part One 1970–1974 — Revised Edition
Over 150 horror, giallo, mondo, sci-fi and W.I.P. films · foreword by Luigi Cozzi
A revised edition of the first issue of Delirium, an independently produced British reference fanzine devoted to Italian exploitation cinema. Issue One catalogues more than 150 films from 1970–1974 across horror, giallo, mondo, science fiction and women-in-prison cycles, combining credits, aliases and reference information with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Delirium
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− for independently produced stapled film ephemera.
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing pages or issued components have been reported.
- Date
- Date not stated — revised edition, early/mid-1990s context
Catalogue note
A revised edition of the first issue of Delirium, an independently produced British reference fanzine devoted to Italian exploitation cinema. Issue One catalogues more than 150 films from 1970–1974 across horror, giallo, mondo, science fiction and women-in-prison cycles, combining credits, aliases and reference information with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi. The rear cover doubles as a snapshot of the 1990s UK cult-film mail-order ecosystem, advertising Delirium alongside Video Watchdog, European Trash Cinema, Necronomicon, Psychotronic Video and other specialist publications through Media Publications in Crouch End.
Why this object matters
The revised first Delirium issue preserves substantial pre-web research on 1970–1974 exploitation cinema and the specialist mail-order network. Its revision status is explicit; documentary usefulness supports outstanding importance without granting an unverified first-issue launch premium.
Evidence limits: Complete under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing pages or issued components have been reported.
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Archive Importance: 8.5 / 10.
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