Second Act (2018)
I may have mentioned it before, but it’s not all giallo and gore in our house. Oh how I wish that it were, but then we wouldn’t have these wildly diverse movie reviews or my wife filming me getting misty-eyed when heroines triumph against the odds. Dammit, I get wrapped up in movies! What did […]
The Blood Stained Shadow (1978)
One of my favorite things about giallo are the alternate titles. As if The Bloodstained Shadow isn’t a great name, this movie also goes by Solamente Nero (Only Blackness), which is a way better title. The other thing I love about this genre is that just when I think I’ve seen every good one, I find another […]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Other than the films of Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace, The Girl Who Knew Too Much), there’s no other film that has no influenced the giallo. In fact, the most well-known version of the form starts right here with Dario Argento’s 1970 directorial debut. Until this movie, he’d been a journalist and had helped write Leone’s Once […]
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