Tag: Giallo

Giallogy Meets The Bombshell: The Sweet Body of Carroll Baker

In which we honor, celebrate, worship, fetishize, objectify, and generally enthuse over the Sweet Body of Giallo Queen Carroll Baker. Every so often with Giallogy I’ll focus on an actor or director, usually ones with strong connections to the genre. This time I’m shining the bright yellow spotlight (get it?) on a woman I’ve dubbed … Continue reading Giallogy Meets The Bombshell: The Sweet Body of Carroll Baker →

Giallogy: The New York Ripper

Lucio Fulci’s sleazefest The New York Ripper (1982) is a masterwork of perversion. Sexually explicit and gruesomely bloody, the film features a serial killer ripping his way through the seedy streets of New York’s Times Square. Inexplicably, the mysterious killer speaks in a Donald Duck quacking voice (!) and viciously slices up a series of … Continue reading Giallogy: The New York Ripper →

Giallogy: Five Dolls for an August Moon

It's taken a few Giallogy posts, but we've finally landed on one of Mario Bava's giallo films. Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) isn't as celebrated as noted Bava masterpieces like Black Sunday (1961), Bay of Blood (1972), or his early giallo, which influenced the evolution of the genre, Blood and Black Lace (1964). … Continue reading Giallogy: Five Dolls for an August Moon →

Giallogy: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

A rare Spanish entry in the giallo genre, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1973) begins with a drifter ex-con finding work at the remote mountain estate of three very different, yet equally eccentric sisters. Then the dead bodies start piling up around town. Beautiful, blue-eyed village women are being murdered, their eyeballs carved out … Continue reading Giallogy: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll →

Giallogy: Amuck!

Beautiful blonde Barbara Bouchet runs Amuck! in a novelist’s Venetian din of inequity, while trying to solve her lesbian lover’s disappearance! If that doesn’t sound like a rip-roaring good time aboard the giallo express, I don’t know what does. “An explosion of sexual frenzy” sums it up beautifully! Trust me, Amuck! is most definitely a … Continue reading Giallogy: Amuck! →

Giallogy: The Psychic

I love giallo movies. I tend to watch them in bunches, like when I recently plowed through The Psychic, aka Seven Notes in Black (1977), Puzzle, aka The Man Without a Memory (1974), and Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971). Gialli offer an intoxicating blend of glamorous women, gorgeous Italian (or other gorgeous European) locales, … Continue reading Giallogy: The Psychic →