Film of the Day – Footprints on the Moon (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975)
Q: When is a giallo not quite a giallo? A: When it’s as strange and beguiling as Footprints on the Moon! It’s not that there aren’t many other giallos that are strange and beguiling, it’s just that today’s Film of the Day is the most atypical and off-the-wall of the lot. Owing less to [...]
Ghoulish Delight #9: Armando Sciascia – Circuito Chiuso
Ghoulish Delight No.9 is a rattling psychedelic funk number from Italian composer/producer/conductor Armando Sciascia. Taken from his 1970 record Impressions In Rhythm & Sound, this is a stunning piece of howling psychedelia. Its thundering and creepy bassline combine devilishly with a whole range of demented sound effects and noises (from [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Cat o’ Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971) So what’s been happening since the last time I did a Morricone Monday? Well, Michael Jackson died, of course. You may have noticed that this website was probably the only media outlet in the world that didn’t register some kind of tribute to [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970) Ennio Morricone is most famous for his work with Sergio Leone. Si? The films of Dario Argento are most closely associated with the music of Italian prog-rock monsters, Goblin. No? However, if we set aside these widely known and universally acclaimed creative partnerships for a moment, [...]
Film of the Day – Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Mario Bava, 1970)
Back when Days Are Numbers ran its giallo special, we rightfully acknowledged the great Mario Bava as the indisputable godfather of the Italian slasher-cum-murder mystery. Perhaps less correctly, however, we listed the horror/sci-fi/fantasy/sex comedy maestro’s contributions to the genre as numbering four; The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Blood and [...]
It’s STILL Halloween!
Hello boys and ghouls. It’s actually not still Halloween, of course. But, for the purposes of finishing our rundown of the top 13 horror films of all time, we’re going to pretend it is. Hope you all had a spooky one and enjoyed yourselves. You didn’t just stay in watching Halloween 2 on BBC1, [...]
Yellow Peril
Like just about every fellow aficionado I have encountered, I was introduced to the fiendish allure of the Italian giallo when I first saw Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso. A confirmed fan of the maestro already, this mesmerising, mind-bending murder mystery was like nothing I had ever seen before. Henceforth, I [...]