ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 80s: Part 1

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 80s: Part 1

Dario Argento, certainly the highlight of the Italian movement and the director who saw the most success outside of his native Italy, would make a slew of fantastic, decadent gialli that still found a place amongst the killer dolls, burnt-face dream demons and hockey mask killers. The US slasher film was of course itself a bastard offspring of Giallo, and Argento knew how to make the conventions of his favoured genre satisfy the bloodlust of horror fans everywhere.

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF EDWIGE: PART 2

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF EDWIGE: PART 2

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh was the beginning of a very prolific period for Sergio Martino in the Giallo genre – over the next couple of years he would go on to direct The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, All the Colors of the Dark, Torso and The Suspicious Death of a Minor.

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF EDWIGE: PART 1

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF EDWIGE: PART 1

Born in 1948, French-Algerian actress Edwige Fenech moved from France to Rome in 1968 and found success in many genres of cinema. She is perhaps best known for her roles in two genres – commedia sexy all'italiana (softcore sex farces popular in Italy at the time) and, of course, Giallo. Fenech would star in the films of Mario Bava, Andrea Bianchi and Ruggero Deodato, and in a number of starring roles for director Sergio Martino.

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 70s: PART 2

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 70s: PART 2

In preparation for this series of articles, I watched over 40 Gialli – some already firm favourites of mine, others I had never seen before. While I have always considered myself a fan of Giallo, I soon realised there was much more to this genre than I had ever understood.

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 1970s: PART 1

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE 1970s: PART 1

Following in the footsteps of the great auteur Mario Bava, a new generation of names were to become synonymous with horror, thriller and exploitation cinema. Bava had popularised the rise of psychosexual thrillers in Italy, but it was not until the 1970s that Giallo began to truly take off elsewhere. Ornately-titled productions such as Dario Argento’s The Bird With ….

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF CREATION: PART 2

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF CREATION: PART 2

In 1971, as Italian contemporaries adopted and adapted Mario Bava’s Giallo template to raise the fledgling genre to its headiest heights, Italian genre cinema’s original auteur returned to finish a job he started in 1964, and help to create a second new genre within horror.

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF CREATION: PART 1

Comment

ALL THE COLOURS OF CREATION: PART 1

As a cinematic phenomenon, Giallo also took its cues from the crime films of Danish and West German cinema (the latter known as krimi). These movies (such as The Secret of the Black Widow and The Phantom of Soho, both directed by F.J. Gottlieb) were in turn frequently based upon or took inspiration from…

Comment

Leatherface (2017) Review [Some Spoilers]

Comment

Leatherface (2017) Review [Some Spoilers]

Have you seen Leatherface (2017)? Kyle breaks down why the movie isn’t as bad as some have been saying about it and gives his reasons why. Find out why you should rewatch the movie with different eyes and expectations.

Comment