#giallos — Public Fediverse posts

The Killer Is One of Thirteen (1973) is a Spanish giallo or rather proto-giallo, these films being stylish decadent erotic thrillers rather than gorefests. Sadly this one has the decadence but it's slow, very unsexy and not stylish enough.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-killer-is-one-of-thirteen-1973.html

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Art-house meets giallo in Tinto Brass’s Deadly Sweet (1967). Has a Pop Art verging on psychedelia visual style. Imagine a giallo made as an homage to Blow-Up but in the style of a Guido Crepax comic. Quirky, witty and slightly perverse. Superb.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/03/deadly-sweet-1967.html

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A Quiet Place To Kill (1970) is a superb stylish early-period Umberto Lenzi giallo. Lots of twisted emotional and erotic relationships that take deadly and unexpected turns. Carroll Baker is fantastic. I love pre-Argento giallos.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-quiet-place-to-kill-1970.html

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So Sweet...So Perverse (1969), an Umberto Lenzi giallo starring Carroll Baker. With delightfully twisted nasty plot twists coming thick and fast. You can't take anybody in this movie at face value. Decadence, betrayal and murder. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/08/so-sweetso-perverse-1969.html

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Midnight Lace is a 1960 Ross Hunter-produced US crime film set in London which gave Doris Day her last, and best, serious dramatic role. It's almost a proto-giallo, but with echoes of GASLIGHT. A top-notch mystery/suspense/psychological thriller.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/midnight-lace-1960.html

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The Italian-Spanish co-production MURDER MANSION (1972). Three people take refuge in a spooky house. There are rumours of vampires and witches. But is this a gothic horror movie or a giallo? It doesn't matter. It's crazy oddball and fun and looks good.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/08/murder-mansion-1972.html

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Luciano Ercoli’s The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970) is a kind of giallo although to be more accurate it's a giallo-esque suspense crime thriller.

Well-crafted, looks good and by giallo standards the plot makes perfect sense and the solution is clearly explained. Entertaining but lacks the stylistic flourishes I look for in a giallo.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-forbidden-photos-of-lady-above.html

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Dario Argento's debut feature. Not much gore but incredibly stylish.

The opening sequence may be the best in the history of cinema.

Based on Fredric Brown’s novel The Screaming Mimi, and the twists at the end are delightfully devious.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-bird-with-crystal-plumage-1970.html

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