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Originally Posted by sjconstable  It's a supernatural horror like Suspiria and Inferno, both of which also include giallo aspects, but aren't gialli.
Those giallo books are really inconsistent with what they do and do not include - Troy Howarth's includes Stage Fright which has no mystery or investigative element whatsoever (it's just a slasher), and yet does not include The Short Night of Glass Dolls which is a murder mystery with an amateur detective and with a giallo score by Morricone and giallo style and cinematography, poster and title, and the protagonist is even struggling to remember clearly throughout the film. |
That's part of the beauty of the very loose definition of 'giallo' and how loose/broad you want to be with the definition, or constrict it to perhaps a dozen films.
Stage Fright does feature a mystery killer, whose identity isn't revealed until the third act, always a staple of a giallo, and which differentiates it from slashers like the Friday 13th (sequels only), Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween films, as the killer's identity is known from the very beginning. If you want to go by that, the Scream movies are post-modern gialli, also featuring an inept detective!
I guess there are 'pure' gialli and then other films which are more giallo/slashers or even supernatural gialli (Inferno, Phenomena etc.).