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Several Forgotten Gialli from Vinegar Syndrome’s series have been added to Shudder, so I decided to give this one a spin. Make no mistake, The Police Are Blundering in the Dark is ‘forgotten’ because it’s not on par with Orgasmo, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, Deep Red, or any of the top-tier films the genre has to offer.
- Helia Colombo
The Police Are Blundering in the Dark. During an outbreak of violent murders in the area targeting young women, a journalist searching for a female friend gone missing ends up in a villa owned by an eccentric photographer.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Helia Colombo
- 1975
The Police Are Blundering in the Dark is a bargain basement yet extremely strange giallo. It opens with a half-naked woman being chased by an unseen assailant and then being stabbed to death with a pair of scissors.
It’s been a while since I’ve sat down and watched a good giallo, and it looks like it’s going to be a while longer…
A ranking of Vinegar Syndrome's ongoing 'Forgotten Gialli' series, currently consisting of seven volumes of three films each. See notes for volume numbers. Volume 6 is the overall best and volume 4…
Dec 12, 2017 · Giallo, meaning ‘yellow’, is the Italian term for crime fiction, named after the bright yellow colours of early mystery paperbacks. In Italy, ‘un giallo’ (plural ‘gialli’) can be of any nationality. But film audiences abroad adopted it as the name for a peculiarly Italian sub-genre of thriller cinema that had its heyday in the 1970s.
In Italian cinema, giallo (Italian:; pl.: gialli; from giallo, lit. ' yellow ') is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements. [1]
