Tag Archives: Giallo

One of Italian cult cinema’s most prolific directors, the wonderful Umberto Lenzi dabbled in many horror and exploitation genres, and is generally remembered for gory cannibal films like Eaten Alive! (1980) and Cannibal Ferox (1981), or poliziotteschi classics like Almost ...

I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence, 1973) or, as it is more widely known, Torso, is the fifth giallo film from Italian filmmaker Sergio Martino. Heralded as a classic in the genre, ...

Italian director Sergio Martino made six gialli during the genre’s spicy peak in the early to mid-1970s. This reviewer has still yet to see The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971), but the other ones fall among the must-see standards ...

Download MP3 It’s been 40 years since Dario Argento unleashed his visionary masterpiece, Suspiria on an unsuspecting public. Part Giallo, part horror, part Baroque fairy tale, Suspiria has lost almost none of its ability to shock. On this first episode ...

Emilio Miraglia was not a prolific filmmaker, having directed just six titles despite working on a number of films as an assistant or second unit director. La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, ...

Antonio Margheriti’s Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye (La morte negli occhi del gatto, 1973) is one of the strangest films to emerge from Italy’s giallo cycle. Blending gothic mise-en-scene with the violent murder mystery structure of the giallo, it ...

Within horror film discourse and in film theory more generally, it is accepted by some that one of the primary visual pleasures of viewing violent scenes, as repeatedly witnessed in giallo films, is a sadistic, projective viewing pleasure. That is ...

Catching writer/director Brian De Palma’s controversial slasher shocker Dressed to Kill on opening weekend in late July 1980 – with several subsequent viewings during its initial run – was an important milestone in my younger moviegoing days. It was certainly a ...

For my money, Michele Soavi is the greatest Italian horror director of the late ’80s and early ’90s (sorry Lamberto Bava) and the last really outstanding directorial talent to come out of the prolific giallo wave that ruled European genre ...

Music and imagery are two worlds that can be sheer blazing kismet or the art equivalent of a dumpster man giving you the middle finger. In short? It can range fiercely but when it works, it is absolute dynamite. A ...