Golden Needles (1974)
Golden Needles begins with an elderly asian man being treated to various needles that literaly rise both him — and his member — back from the dead, at which point his grinning harem guides him out of the room just in time for a group of flamethrower-spraying masked troopers to kill every single person with […]
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Between Nocturnal Animals, Sharp Objects and this, is Amy Adams kinda becoming a giallo queen? Or just a woman in danger of being killed and/or going insane? Umm, isn’t that a giallo queen? You know what also seems like a mystery worth digging into? The writer of the book that this was based on, A.J. Finn, is […]
Taking Lives (2004)
While not perfectly a fit into the giallo, Taking Lives does have a heroine who gets involved with the killer, a Phillip Glass score and the changing identity of the killer having a central part of the story. D.J. Caruso has some interesting films like Disturbia and The Salton Sea to his credit — we’ll ignore I Am Number […]
Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Stelvio Massi is best known for his cop films like Highway Racer, Convoy Busters, Magnum Cop, Speed Cross, Black Cobra and Speed Driver, but he also was the cinematographer of The Case of the Bloody Iris and made the berserk Angel: Black Angel, which kind of sort of fits into the world of black-gloved killers, right? It’s more than sleazy enough. This […]
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
So this is kind of cheating, because Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina is more a drama or crime movie than a giallo, but it has enough elements of the form to warrant being included in the company of black gloved killers. Il Giornale is a newspaper that may remind you of some other media sources in […]
Nove ospiti per un delitto (1977)
I get it — 1977 is late for the category and Ferdinando Baldi is better known for making weird westerns — like Get Mean and Blindman with Tony Anthony, not to mention two 3D movies with the very same actor, Comin’ At Ya! and Treasure of the Four Crowns — than giallo. But hey. when you’re trying to watch every […]
It Came from Below (2021)
Jessis’s father died in a spelunking trip gone wrong when alien creatures attacked everyone. No one believes that to be what actually happened and, as usually happens, everyone pays the price. And by price, I mean some truly gruesome sound design that really is the star of this movie. Either I’m getting old or people […]
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