Tutti defunti… tranne i morti (1977)
After The House with the Laughing Windows, Pupi Avati decided to make fun of the giallo while also sending out gothic horror and Agatha Christie while bringing back most of the cast from that past giallo masterwork. The results are…mixed to say the least. An author named Dante is trying to sell a book all about […]
Dementia 13 (1963)
Despite owning multiple copies if this film — its public domain status means that it ends up on all manner of DVD compilations — I’d never sat down to enjoy it before. Shot after Corman Corman’s recently completed The Young Racers* — on which Coppola had worked as a sound technician, this was intended to be […]
GIALLOPALOOZA PRIMER: What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally posted this on March 26, 2018. To celebrate the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama Giallopalooza on September 17 and 18, we’re posting an article on each of the eight films that will play at this incredible event. London. The 70’s. Professor of Italian Enrico Rosseni (Fabio Testi, The Four of the Apocalypse) is on his […]
La donna della domenica (1975)
“The police have the victim, the weapon and the suspect. What they don’t have is the Sunday Woman.” You know that a movie is high class when Marcello Mastroianni plays the investigator and it’s based on a book that’s listed as one of the first examples of modern Italian crime novels. Commissioner Santamaria (Mastroianni) is […]
Sotto il vestito niente – L’ultima sfilata (2011)
There’s a goofy part of me that loves Nothing Underneath and Too Beautiful to Die because they’re trying to keep the giallo alive in the sad dry years of the mid 80s before everyone realized that they could make money making Basic Instinct and Cinemax After Dark clones because hey, those movies are just giallo with less style and […]
The Killer Nun (1979)
In 1977, a middle-aged nun named Cécile Bombeek committed a series of murders in a Belgium geriatric hospital and inspired this piece of Italian scuzzy filmmaking. It is a nun’s vocation to suffer, so when Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) returns to ministering to the elderly after surviving a brain tumor, she begins to worry that […]
The Black Gloves (2017)
I mean, if you’re going to name your giallo something, The Black Gloves isn’t bad. The movie that this is a prequel to — Lord of Tears — and the connected film — The Unkindness of Ravens — both have even better titles, however. Finn Galloway is a psychologist obsessed with a patient who is haunted by an […]
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