Malignant (2021)
From the first time Malignant was announced, it was called James Wan’s giallo film. A few thoughts on that. It’s a giallo film as much as Suspiria is a giallo. That’s because most people think, “Italian horror with red and blue colors equals giallo,” which is much like someone thinking that all hip hop is rap […]
Amer (2009)
You know, the films of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani kind of frustrate me. I want to love The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears and Let the Corpses Tan, but they felt like they were at times more concerned with their own style, particularly the former. But man, I must have been in the right mood […]
GIALLOPALOOZA PRIMER: Torso (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally wrote about this Sergio Martino proto-slasher on September 8, 2017. It’s one of eight movies that will be playing at the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama Giallopalooza September 17 and 18. This article has been adjusted from the original as the writer has rewatched this movie several times since it was originally written. […]
GIALLOPALOOZA PRIMER: A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Lucio Fulci giallo was first on our site all the way back on August 21, 2017. We’re covering it again as its one of eight movies that will be playing at the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama Giallopalooza September 17 and 18. If you were a well-to-do woman in Italy in the 1970s, chances are […]
Arcana (1972)
Man, this movie just hit me right in the brain. Lucia Bosè (Something Creeping in the Dark) plays Ms. Tarantino, a widow who practices spiritualism. As her son grows older, he learns that the parlor tricks his mom uses to get money out of the marks hide what she can really do, so he forces her to give him the […]
Part 1 of interview with producer, writer, director (and so much more) Joel Soisson
Joel Soisson’s biography reads like a list of everything people watched and rented in the 80s and 90s, including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Phantoms, Pulse, Trick or Treat, The Supernaturals, The Prophecy and so many more. With the release of his new film, My Best Worst Adventure, we had the amazing opportunity to […]
Libido (1965)
Giallo owes a lot to Ernesto Gastaldi, who wrote The Possessed, The Murder Clinic, So Sweet… So Perverse, All the Colors of the Dark, Torso, The Suspicious Death of a Minor, The Scorpion with Two Tails, The Killer Is Still Among Us, Puzzle, Death Walks at Midnight, The Sweet Body of Deborah, Death Walks On High Heels, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and this movie, which he co-wrote […]
Naked Girl Killed in the Park (1972)
A wealthy industrialist named Johann Wallenberger has showed up dead outside a haunted house ride and is missing all of his money. His insurance company sends its top man, Chris Buyer (Robert Hoffman, Death Carries a Cane). He decides to go undercover by dating the dead man’s daughter Catherine, but before long, he’s in her family […]
Death Carries a Cane (1973)
If death carries a cane, isn’t it weak? With that thinking, aren’t the alternate titles — Dance Steps on the Edge of a Razor, Maniac At Large, The Night of the Rolling Heads and Devil Blade — so much cooler? Well, that’s because whoever the killer is, he or she has a limp. That’s what Kitty (Nieves […]
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