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Old 28th May 2010, 07:26 PM
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For some reason or other which I have never been able to fathom I was quite late in enjoying the spectacle that is the Giallo. But better late than never I have been indulging mysef over the last few years and hunting down as many Gialli that I can lay my hands on, with grateful appreciation of Adrian Luther Smith's seminal blood and Black Lace. It is a sub-genre that cries out or recognition as a bons fide genre in itself, which it is I suppose in a forum like this! My first surprise on enteing this thread was to see Tenebrae winning hands down on the poll. A superb film, granted (and I do mean superb), but for me I reckon the seeming hayday of the Giallo lays firmly in the late sixties to the mid seventies. if I'm pressed to say what is the greates Giallo ever I would have to plump for Deep Red, an essential flm in the genre where all the requisites are there, laid out perfectly within Argento's vision.
For what it is worth, my top ten (in an order that changes with the frequency as I change my underpants) i:

Deep Red
Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Don't Torture A Duckling (Some days I reckon this is the best)
Black Belly Of A Tarantula
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (if you've neve seen this, really, you should)
Spasmo ( I know, it's utter madness but Iove it)
Death Walks In High Heels (Another one that maybe not everyon'e idea of a favourite, but it works for me)
Death Lays An Egg (This does different things before the rules were se, as it were)Four Grey Flies On Velvet
The Killer Must kill Again (possibly the antithesis of the Giallo so may not belong on this list, but adamn fine film, and I have many films to take its place if need be)

nb - I have purposely not put any film with Edwige Fenech in it bcause every Edwige film is a genre unto itself and I fail to be unbias with her around.
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I absolutely love WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS, probably my favourite Dallamano film, glad I got to see it on the big screen (that was the first time I saw it too)
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Excellent film.And easily the best movie Shameless has released so far.
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I was going to put up an update of all the gialli I liked...
But the list got so long,I decided not to do it.
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Old 29th May 2010, 06:40 PM
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How about a list of the gialli you own on dvd, or would that take too long?
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Oh that would be ok I guess...
http://www.dvdaf.com/search.html?gen..._bdc*mode_more
Some could be missing if dvdaf doesn't qualify them as gialli...

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Oh that would be ok I guess...
http://www.dvdaf.com/search.html?gen..._bdc*mode_more
Some could be missing if dvdaf doesn't qualify them as gialli...
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Thanks BE,some of my hardboxes are also not in there yet.
I still need a few Argento titles btw...
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Old 30th May 2010, 12:15 PM
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All the gialli I have seen (that I can remember):


All the Colours of the Dark
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
The Black Belly of The Tarantula
A Blade in the Dark
The Bloodstained Shadow
The Card Player
The Case of the Bloody Iris
The Case of the Scoripions Tail
The Cat O'Nine Tails
The Cold Eyes of Fear
Death Carries a Cane
Death Walks at Midnight
Deep Red

Delirium (Renato Polselli)
Delirium (Lamberto Bava)
The Designated Vicitim
Don't Torture a Duckling
Eroticopholia
Eyeball
The Fifth Cord
Five Dolls For an August Moon
Footprints
The French Sex Murders
Giallo a Venezia
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
In the Folds of the Flesh
A Lizard in a Womans Skin
My Dear Killer
Naked You Die
The New York Ripper
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Oasis of Fear
Opera
Puzzle
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Seven Bloodstained Orchids
Seven Deaths in the Cats Eye
The Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Sleepless
Spasmo
Strip Nude for Your Killer
Tenebrae
Torso
Watch Me When I kill
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
What Have You Done to Solange?
Who Saw Her Die?


Films others consider gialli, but I dont (or not sure):

Bay of Blood
Body Count
Death Smiled at Murder
Macabre
Phantom of Death
Stagefright
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All the gialli I have seen (that I can remember):


All the Colours of the Dark
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
The Black Belly of The Tarantula
A Blade in the Dark
The Bloodstained Shadow
The Card Player
The Case of the Bloody Iris
The Case of the Scoripions Tail
The Cat O'Nine Tails
The Cold Eyes of Fear
Death Carries a Cane
Death Walks at Midnight
Deep Red

Delirium (Renato Polselli)
Delirium (Lamberto Bava)
The Designated Vicitim
Don't Torture a Duckling
Eroticopholia
Eyeball
The Fifth Cord
Five Dolls For an August Moon
Footprints
The French Sex Murders
Giallo a Venezia
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
In the Folds of the Flesh
A Lizard in a Womans Skin
My Dear Killer
Naked You Die
The New York Ripper
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Oasis of Fear
Opera
Puzzle
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Seven Bloodstained Orchids
Seven Deaths in the Cats Eye
The Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Sleepless
Spasmo
Strip Nude for Your Killer
Tenebrae
Torso
Watch Me When I kill
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
What Have You Done to Solange?
Who Saw Her Die?


Films others consider gialli, but I dont (or not sure):

Bay of Blood
Body Count
Death Smiled at Murder
Macabre
Phantom of Death
Stagefright
Seen em all to and loved everyone of them...massive gialli fan, Dario Argento & Mario Bava being my faves.
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