Giallo Week recap 2: Wednesday to Thursday
This is our second recap of Giallo Week. If you’re as big a fan of these movies as we are, please check out the Gialloholics Facebook group. There’s always great conversation there and fun people. In the last 48 hours, we’ve watched the following: WEDNESDAY Night of Violence: Roberto Mauri directed this early giallo that […]
Welcome to the Circle (2020)
The reviews on this feature film writing and directing debut by Disney wildlife documentarian David Fowler have been of the middling-to-hated variety. And I must admit that, after my first watch, I didn’t care for Welcome to the Circle either — and since I couldn’t find a positive in the film, I wasn’t going to […]
Narratives of Modern Genocide (2021)
Sichan Siv and Gilbert Tuhabonye escaped the killing fields of Cambodia and the massacre of Burundi’s children. Now, this film uses animation and the words of Sichan, Gilbert and twelve other survivors to make us confront a very haunting fact: the holocaust of World War II was not the end of the world’s genocide. Directed by Paul […]
Massacro (1989)
Directed by Andrea Bianchi (Burial Ground, Strip Nude for Your Killer) under the supervision of Lucio Fulci, this is all about the filming of the movie Dirty Blood, which has been infiltrated by an actual killer. It starts off quick, with a trucker axe chopping a woman’s hand off and blood spraying everywhere. And if you’re saying, […]
Abuso di Potere (1972)
Translated as Abuse of Power and released internationally under the vastly improved title Shadows Unseen, this movie has an awesome poster and a great title that both say giallo, but the movie says poliziotteschi. It all starts with a journalist who forks over a ton of cash for a ring, then leaves a bar with a mysterious […]
La Pelle Sotto Gli Artigli (1975)
A series of murders are happening — it’s a giallo, so go figure, right? — but in each case, there is decomposed flesh under the victims. There’s also a genius named Professor Helmut (Gordon Mitchell!) who is doing brain transplants from human to baboon and he thinks that could be the secret to cheating death. That’s why […]
Im Banne des Unheimlichen (1968)
The translation of the German title to this film — Under the Spell of the Uncanny — is way cooler than The Zombie Walks and The Hand of Power**, the other titles for this Edgar Wallace adaption. No matter — this movie looks cool as hell, a Blood and Black Lace influenced pre-giallo with a delightful skull-faced killer named […]
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