What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
By 1974, the giallo was waning and the poliziottesco was starting to win over the Italian box office. This offering is a hybrid of both — unlike many giallo, the police are not presented as ineffectual or non-essential. Instead, they’re followed for most of the film. Massimo Dallamano (The Night Child) made What Have You […]
The College Girl Murders (1967)
Beyond Dario Argento and Mario Bava, perhaps the true father of the giallo is Edgar Wallace. And yes, it’s somewhat strange that a British-born writer — in fact, the same man who wrote the original script for King Kong — would beget a uniquely Italian film genre, but sometimes that’s how it works. Wallace toiled in […]
Knife + Heart (2018)
Knife + Heart is a true anomaly when it comes to giallo. It’s from France, a country more given to the fantastique film than the giallo — though there are movies like The Night Caller, Without Apparent Motive and The Night Under the Throat. And its victims aren’t gorgeous women, but the actors of the gay porn industry, […]
Ghouls Across America chapter 6
This time, things get emotional in a good way: “Joe and Alex bid farewell to Pennsylvania as they travel through New York on their way to New England. They hit up the Salem Witch Museum in Massachusetts, and spend a couple of great days in Portland, Maine dining on the best chowder on Earth, touring […]
The Dead Are Alive (1972)
Originally known as L’etrusco Uccide Ancora (The Etruscan Kills Again), this film comes to us from Armando Crispino, who made the quite enjoyable Autopsy and the fabulously named Frankenstein Italian Style. It’s based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, the son of the man who gave inspiration to both the krimi and giallo genres. It was released in Germany as […]
Atomic Apocalypse (2018)
Originally called Black Flowers, this post-apocalyptic film follows Kate, her injured husband Sam and their daughter Suzi after the end of the world as they look for a hidden storehouse of supplies. Kate soon finds herself cut off from her family and must battle her way back to them, but things are complicated by Sam’s injuries, […]
Crimes of the Black Cat (1972)
Italy and Denmark unite for a film made in the wake of Dario Argento’s landmark The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Just look — there are crimes right in the title and some vaguely associated animal name! Actually, a black cat does kill some people in this, so the name makes sense. Originally titled Sette Scialli di […]
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