Thanks for being with us all week as we cover some of our favorite giallo films.

I’d like to give a shout-out to Giallo of the Month Club, which you can find on Twitter and Instagram, with the episodes available on Spotify (and anywhere else you listen to podcasts). The last show about The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a must-listen.

So far this week, we’ve covered the following:

SUNDAY

• Lipstick and Blood: Lindsay Shonteff stops making Bond ripoff films long enough to make a scummy and shoddy SOV that’s either a satire or he’s swine.
• Last Stop on the Night Train: You may only know Macha Méril as the doomed psychic of Deep Red, but here she’s the maniacal woman behind a series of escalating bursts of sadism.
• Senza via d’uscita: Marisa Mel in a pre-Argento giallo that feels more krimini than Crystal Plumage.
• Al Tropico del Cancro: Anita Strindberg goes on vacation to Haiti and discovers a miracle drug, murder and mondo footage.
• Le Seuil Du Vide: Threshold of the Void is about art and a room for rent with an unending abyss within a locked room.

MONDAY

• Extrasensorial: Michael Moriarty in an Alberto Martino-directed giallo about twins? You know it.
• The Killer Is On the Phone: Telly Savalas is the killer. He never uses a phone. Don’t let that stop you from watching this.
• Senza Sapere Niente Di Lei: Without Knowing Anything About Her is an arty pre-Argento take on form, with love and insurance fraud the tale.
• L’occhio Dietro La Parete: Eyes Behind the Wall is a sexualized nightmare of voyeurism, loneliness and, well, John Phillip Law full-frontal nudity.
• Una Jena In Cassaforte: Some of the wildest fashions you’ll see in a giallo are in this story of a team of bank robbers trying to split up some diamonds.

TUESDAY

• Non Aver Paura Della zia Marta: Lucio Fulci presented this Mario Bianchi written and directed movie, also known as Murder Secret.
• Marta: This really could be Marisa Mel week. This is the best acting I’ve seen of her. This time, she’s a woman on the run falling in love with a man who may or may not have killed his last wife.
• The Man with the Glass Eye: An Edgar Wallace krimini.
• La Orca: A Patty Heart-style kidnapping gone wrong.

If you’d like to see all of the giallo films we’ve covered, check our Letterboxd list.

Don’t forget — this Saturday at 8 PM EST, we’ll be watching Bog and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh on the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature on this Groovy Doom Facebook page.

You may have noticed that we review quite a bit of films released on the free-with-ads stream Tubi platform. That’s because Tubi streams some really great content deserving of a watch. As you can see from the theatrical one-sheets of the movies we’ve reviewed in 2020, Tubi offers a wide array of films in the action, comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi, and family-oriented realms.

There’s a hyperlinked list of our reviews that feature links back to Tubi for your watching pleasure, at the end of this article.

Happy Holidays from the crew of B&S About Movies. Stay safe by staying home and watching a movie.

Angels Fallen
Banging Lanie
The Candy Witch
The Capture
Case 347
Cold Ground
Countrycide
Coven
Cry for the Bad Man
Dark Sister
Darkness Reigns
Daughter
Dead House
Double Riddle
Edge of Extinction
The Evil Insider Her
Evil River
5th of July
Getaway
The Girls of Summer
Inmate Zero
Jurassic Thunder
Loqueesha
Making Time
Nana’s Secret Recipe
The Neon Dead
One Night in October
Our Father’s Keeper
Revenge
Soft Matter
Water
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Every year, October becomes the month that I try and watch as many slashers as I can. This year, my goal was to watch a hundred. And guess what? I hit my goals. Here are the ones that I watched this year, along with links so you can read about them.

1. To All A Goodnight
2. Berserker
3. The Red Right Hand
4. Girls Nite Out
5. Don’t Go In the House!
6. Random Acts of Violence
7. The Redeemer
8. The Last Slumber Party
9. He Knows You’re Alone
10. The Forest
11. Snuff Kill
12. I, Madman
13. Jack-O
14. To Your Last Death
15. Beyond the Darkness
16. Dead Girl
17. Mongrel
18. Hellmaster
19. Another Son of Sam
20. Terror On Tape
21. Last House on Dead End Street
22. 976-EVIL II
23. The Video Dead
24. Hospital Massacre
25. Possession
26. Hatchet
27. Hatchet II
28. Hatchet III
29. Victor Crowley
30. National Lampoon’s Class Reunion
31. Blood Lake
32. Color Me Blood Red
33. Terror In the Aisles
34. Bells
35. Axe
36. Corpse Mania
37. Scary Movie
38. Amsterdamned
39. The Majorettes
40. Dreamaniac
41. Camp Blood 8
42. Meatcleaver Massacre
43. Evil Judgment
44. Puppet Master
45. Puppet Master 2
46. Video Violence
47. Evil Ed
48. The Ghost Dance
49. Invasion of the Blood Farmers
50. Deadly Camp
51. Girls Just Want to Have Blood
52. Getaway
53. Evil Clutch
54. Tokyo Stay Home Massacre
55. Silent Madness
56. Just Before Dawn
57. Three On a Meathook
58. House on the Edge of the Park
59. Too Scared to Scream
60. Retro Puppet Master
61. Blood Song
62. Tag the Assassination Game
63. Waxwork
64. Waxwork 2
65. Fatal Images
66. City In Panic
67. Cut and Run
68. 10 to Midnight
69. Witchtrap
70. Scream Park
71. Deadbeat At Dawn
72. Witchouse
73. Whiskey Mountain
74. Houseboat Horror
75. The Witch Who Came from the Sea
76. The Last House on the Beach
77. Freeway Maniac
78. Witchboard 
79. Witchboard 2: Devil’s Doorway
80. Witchboard III: The Possession
81. The Toolbox Murders
82. Zipperface
83. Scalps
84. The Undertaker
85. Camp Twilight
86. Necromancer
87. Devil Girl
88. Demonwarp
89. Splatter Architects of Fear
90. Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried’s Brain
91. Nail Gun Massacre
92. Evil Dead Trap
93. Evil Dead Trap 2
94. Naked Fear
95. The Dentist
96. The Dentist 2: Brace Yourself
97. Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
98. No Such Thing as Monsters
99. The Haunted House of Horror
100. Destroyer
101. Bloody Beach
102. Spellcaster
103. Redwood Massacre: Annihilation
104. The Hitcher
105. Hard Rock Nightmare
106. Home Sweet Home
107. Never Hike in the Snow
108. Watch Me Die
109. Gorgasm
110. Shriek of the Mutilated
111. Slaughterhouse
112. Rest In Pieces
113. The Wind
114. Unhinged
115. Olivia
116. Happy Halloween
117. Halloween Revenge of the Sandman
118. House of Wax
119. Hack O’Lantern

We also shared a few articles along the way, like how the first Halloween aired as a commercial for Halloween 2 and Robert Freese’s article on the history of slashers!

You can always track the entire list of our slasher watching with our Letterboxd list.

Want to see these for yourself? Plenty of them came from Vinegar Syndrome, which has been releasing some of the best lost VHS era slashers on blu ray. There are others that came out from Arrow Video, as well. Within each article, you’ll always find a place to watch the movie in streaming form or where you can order a copy.

Thanks for reading! Now, I have to prepare to beat this record for next year.

Every October, I get a little crazy about slashers and try to watch as many as I can. It was sixty last year. This year, it’s a hundred. Who can say what happens next? This is my attempt to share all of them in one place. And if you’d like to share one that you watched, go ahead! We’ll post it!

1. To All A Goodnight
2. Berserker
3. The Red Right Hand
4. Girls Nite Out
5. Don’t Go In the House!
6. Random Acts of Violence
7. The Redeemer
8. The Last Slumber Party
9. He Knows You’re Alone
10. The Forest
11. Snuff Kill
12. I, Madman
13. Jack-O
14. To Your Last Death
15. Beyond the Darkness
16. Dead Girl
17. Mongrel
18. Hellmaster
19. Another Son of Sam
20. Terror On Tape
21. Last House on Dead End Street
22. 976-EVIL II
23. The Video Dead
24. Hospital Massacre
25. Possession
26. Hatchet
27. Hatchet II
28. Hatchet III
29. Victor Crowley
30. National Lampoon’s Class Reunion
31. Blood Lake
32. Color Me Blood Red
33. Terror In the Aisles
34. Bells
35. Axe
36. Corpse Mania
37. Scary Movie
38. Amsterdamned
39. The Majorettes
40. Dreamaniac
41. Camp Blood 8
42. Meatcleaver Massacre
43. Evil Judgment
44. Puppet Master
45. Puppet Master 2
46. Video Violence
47. Evil Ed
48. The Ghost Dance
49. Invasion of the Blood Farmers
50. Deadly Camp
51. Girls Just Want to Have Blood
52. Getaway
53. Evil Clutch
54. Tokyo Stay Home Massacre
55. Silent Madness
56. Just Before Dawn
57. Three On a Meathook
58. House on the Edge of the Park
59. Too Scared to Scream
60. Retro Puppet Master

You can always track the entire list of our slasher watching with our Letterboxd list. And we’ve also shared a few articles along the way, like how the first Halloween aired as a commercial for Halloween 2 and Robert Freese’s article on the history of slashers!

Our friends at Kino Lorber were kind enough to let me know that they have some classic Eurohorror streaming just in time for Halloween.

Kill, Baby…Kill! is a Mario Bava piece of magic, with a ball-bouncing ghost leading people to suicide amidst a swirl of colors and artistic style in the master’s return to gothic horror.    You can get it right here.

Jess Franco and Lina Romay made plenty of movies together, but Female Vampire is one of the better ones. Here, Lina is Countess Irina Karlstein, a bloodsucker who only feasts at the point of orgasm. You can get it here.

Want more Franco? The Awful Dr. Orlof starts like a Hammer film and ends up being total Franco, which is…well, an acquired taste that I often find myself dining upon. It’s also on their site.

Check out all of Kino Lorber’s horror selections right here! There’s so much there, like A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Die Screaming Marianne, Frightmare, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, The Living Dead Girl, The Grapes of Death, The Comeback, House of Whipcord and Zombie Lake, among others.

They also have all of these movies available on DVD and blu ray, if you’d rather have physical media. Here’s hoping they make your Halloween more interesting and artistic!

Tomorrow night at the Riverside Drive-In the Drive-In Super Monster Rama plays for two awesome nights! For just $20 ($10 a night), you get eight astounding movies! Here’s a breakdown (and how to see them if you’re unable to attend) as well as a drink recipe for each night!

NIGHT ONE

Brides of Blood: That poster should show you what you’re in for as you enter Blood Island. Between carnivorous trees eating women and the movie ending in a huge orgy, this is probably unlike any other movie you’ve seen before. And you’re about to see three more just like it. This was streaming on Amazon Prime, but sadly, no longer. Hope you have the Severin blu ray!

The Mad Doctor of Blood Island:This movie starts with a blood oath and a drink of a green vial that is to save you from becoming one of the horrible beasts of Blood Island. Luckily, our mixed drink below is ready to save you. If you can’t make it to the Riverside, this alternate title cut can help (or you should already own the Severin blu ray).

Beast of Blood: A monster that can live without its head? Yes, these are the magic moments that Blood Island has for you. This movie was sold by scattering counterfeit $10 bills with the movie poster on the back. Yes, really. Sadly, this was only on the Severin Blood Island set and is no longer streaming.

Terror Is a Man: Yes, Blood Island is somewhat adjacent to The Island of Dr. Moreau. Somehow, it’s even better than that, with man/animal hybrids driven wild by their cruel master. You can watch the alternate title cut of this movie or buy it on blu ray from Severin.

Here’s our drink for Friday night!

Blood Island Swampwater

• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. cherry vodka
• 1 oz. blue caracao

1. Mix ’em all together one at a time and marvel at the way the colors shift and change!
2. Stir and drink! Now you’re safe — well, as safe as it gets — to walk freely around Blood Island (or at least Vandergrift, PA).

NIGHT TWO

King Kong vs. Godzilla: If there was ever a battle that was fated to happen, it was this, a movie that completely owned my childhood. Somehow, Toho was able to improve on King Kong by making it completely bonkers and I thank whatever beings exist beyond this plane for it! Sadly, this movie is not streaming.

King Kong Escapes: Honestly, this is my favorite Kong movie and one of my favorite movies ever. I would stay up until 1 AM as a six-year-old for this movie and scream the entire time. If you’re at the Riverside, you’ll probably hear me shouting in glee the entire time. This isn’t streaming either.

The Legend of Boggy Creek: The newly cleaned up version of this Bigfoot classic was due to play in April before COID-19 shut down the drive-in. Well, we’ll be wearing our masks and ready to delight in this reality-esque affair! You can watch this on Shudder.

The Brain That Would Not Die: This was a movie on all the time when I was a kid and with good reason. It’s ridiculous in all the best of ways, with an amazing performance by Virginia Leith. You can watch it on Tubi.

To celebrate the second night, we’re drinking King Kong style.

That’s right — the Jim Beam King Kong cocktail!

If you’re coming to the drive-in, make sure to say hello. I’ll be rocking a Severin hoodie — of course — and either a Frizzi/Fulci shirt or a Tenebre one! Bring a mask, grab a blanket and ask for a drink — I’ll have extras!