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Jun 26, 2024 · “Giallo” translates to “yellow” in Italian, but it means far more in the context of cinema. Inspired by the pulpy crime novels with yellow covers of the late 1920s, giallo films merge the crime...
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Oct 18, 2021 · Movies like Last Night in Soho, Malignant, and John Carpenter’s Halloween all throw back to the Italian giallo genre — but what really makes a giallo film?
Giallo films are generally characterized as gruesome murder-mystery thrillers that combine the suspense elements of a Hitchcock film with scenes of shocking horror featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camerawork, and often jarring musical arrangements.
Jul 25, 2024 · Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror right among the...
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Oct 5, 2021 · Named after the lurid yellow (“giallo”) covers of Italian crime fiction pulp paperbacks — many of them translations of the work of Edgar Wallace, Edgar Allan Poe and Ed McBain — the Italian...
- Walter Chaw
Jun 2, 2016 · Last week, Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn added 1972 giallo film What Have You Done to Solange? to his production company’s list of cult-movie remakes. Deep-cut horror nerds were...
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Oct 11, 2021 · Italian Giallo films have had a lasting effect on horror movies and murder mysteries made outside Italy since the late 1960s, most notably in the slasher and splatter films that became widely popular in the late ’70 and early ’80s. What follows is a list of the very best Giallo films.
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