Giallo Fever!
As a bit of a bonus follow-up to our indepth giallo investigation (Yellow Peril, see below), I thought it might be nice to put up a few magic moments from everybody’s favourite Italian murder mystery/horror hybrid subgenre.
A late-night trawl through youtube surprisingly yielded some excellent clips, and if anyone is interested in getting hold of some of these films, it might be worth having a look on here before purchasing (and you will undoubtedly have to purchase for the most part as, the odd Argento aside, Blockbuster, and even above average indie video shops, don’t really stock this stuff).
Also, Aneet regularly spoils you guys with untold aural delights, so it’s about time you had something to have a “butcher’s” at, too…
Beginning with this terrific trailer for the inaugral giallo, Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much, featuring Adriano Celentano at his smouldering best crooning the theme song
Observe here a typically bizarre portion of poultry-based puzzlement from Giulio Questi’s crazy Death Laid an Egg
Couldn’t find any Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh clips, so here instead is the trailer for Sergio Martino’s later The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail. No Edwige Fenech in this one, but plenty of George Hilton action. Also, check out that soundtrack!
A suitably atmospheric trailer for the sombre slasher Short Night of the Glass Dolls, directed by Aldo Lado
Hats off to the wag who lovingly compiled this clip containing each and every over-zealous zoom-in from the Giuliano Carimeo (or Anthony Ascott, if you prefer) helmed kitsch masterpiece The Case of the Bloody Iris (keep your eyes peeled for the Woody Allen looky-likey, and your, erm, ears peeled for snippets of Bruno Nicolai’s jazzy score)
SPOILER ALERT! Not only will watching the grisly end of Lucio Fulci’s Don’t Torture a Duckling reveal the identity of the killer, but it may also spoil your dinner… When you vom it up. Very gory, this, (not to mention surreal) so don’t say I didn’t warn you. I wouldn’t want you to “lose face”. Ahem.
A complex tale of estranged, grieving parents in Venice, striving to get to the bottom of their daughter’s mysterious death? No, it’s not Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now… It’s Aldo Lado’s Who Saw Her Die?, which came out first. So there.
The trailer for Luigi Cozzi’s uneven and sleazy, but occasionally brilliant, The Killer Must Kill Again, here going under it’s not immensely catchy US name, The Dark is Death’s Friend. I wouldn’t watch this one if you’re at work. I REALLY wouldn’t watch this one if you’re at work.
STOP PRESS!!! This just in… The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh just found on YouTube. Why not have a peek? (Warning! It’s a bit ‘orrible)
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