My thanks to those who contributed a list of their top 10 Tom Savini films.
This week's topic is similar to one from a few weeks ago but devoted to psychological thrillers made in Europe. There may be a blurring between this category and the giallo, but it would be more interesting if there were as few gialli as possible. Additionally, if a film is a a co-production involving an American studio but is predominantly European, it counts.
For reference purposes, I'll be using this definition by Peter Hutchings:
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"The label "psychological thriller" has been applied, often loosely or vaguely, to different types of film. It usually refers to narratives with domesticated settings in which action is suppressed and where the thrills are provided instead via investigations of the psychologies of principal characters. There's nothing intrinsically horror-like about the psychological thriller. However, post-1950s horror cinema has increasingly deployed psychological concepts and scenarios, consequently there is a category of psychological thriller that sits, sometimes uncomfortably between the genres of crime and horror."
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EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS 