Idu Saadhya (1989)
The title of this movie is This Is Possible and it proves it. It was shot in 48 hours and is, yes, the Indian Kannada remake of Michele Soavi’s Stagefright but has nearly an hour of comedy before becomes a remake of that film, except that the owl-masked killer in this is nearly cute in costume while […]
Bruce and the Iron Finger (1979)
Despite being billed so often as Bruce Li as he led the pack of Brucesploitation actors, Ho Chung Tao used his own name for this film. He plays a cop visiting Hong Kong who finds himself in the midst of a case, as a number of martial arts masters have been found dead with two […]
Mania (1974)
Barely released in 1974, Mania was once a lost giallo until a 35mm print surfaced in 2007 at the Cineteca Nazionale film archive in Rome, which keeps every movie submitted to censors. It’s somehow all at once a giallo, gothic horror and science fiction and refuses to make sense. We start by meeting Lisa (Eva Spadaro) […]
Last Night In Soho (2021)
Director Edgar Wright, who also co-wrote this with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, said, “Something that I find truly nightmarish — and I guess there’s an element where I’m sort of giving a sharp rebuke to myself — is the danger of being overly nostalgic about previous decades. In a way, the film is about romanticizing the past […]
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
Nearly every Italian exploitation director tried their hands at the giallo, but Enzo G. Castellari is probably better known for making seven movies with Franco Nero (High Crime; Street Law; Cry, Onion!; Keoma; The Shark Hunter; Day of the Cobra and Jonathan of the Bears) as well as The Inglorious Bastards, House by the Edge of the Lake, The Last Shark and a trilogy […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2023: Stagefright (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this more slasher than giallo movie on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 7:30 PM ET at The Little Theatre in Rochester, NY (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. There was a moment two minutes into this movie, when a slasher-like scene turned into a Cats-like play, that my mind […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2023: The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this film — my favorite giallo — on Thursday, Jan. 18 at the Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Sergio Martino’s directorial efforts have run the gamut — from straight exploitation (Mondo Sex and Mountain of the Cannibal God, which features Stacy Keach and Ursula […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2023: So Sweet…So Perverse (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this movie on Tuesday, January 17 at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. It’s also available in The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection set from Severin, which has plenty of other great films like Orgasmo, A Quiet Place to Kill and Knife of Ice. […]
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