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     Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
A Blind Gecko on the Crystal Balcony Directed by Ovidio Massaprodussi A dancer who has been accused of a crime vanishes out of a seemingly-locked room. A mad detective is mistaken for someone else by the perpetrator of the disappearance. Ultimately he finds and kills the real criminal, but decides to continue the monstrous crimes himself. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
or maybe: Love is a Cruel Shadow with One Red Eye Directed by Fulvio Lucci An American politician's wife is poisoned; her body then disappears, and turns up mutilated in the style of a killer who terrorized the neighborhood several hundred years ago. A nanny inadvertently picks up the one piece of evidence that will solve the killing. The crime turns out to have been a hoax calculated by her lover to drive her insane. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
from Braineater's DIY Giallo generator: http://www.braineater.com/misc/giallo.html | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Let's play what's the best non-Argento/Bava giallo you've ever seen. For me probably 'The Case Of The Bloody Iris' (1972) directed by Giuliano Carnimeo. I'm a hopeless Italian cinema nut and consider it the best in the world! Everything from their arthouse cinema and neorealist masterpieces to the spaghetti westerns and those brilliant poliziotteschi thrillers of the 70s with the horror genius of Bava & Argento, etc. being the icing on the cake for me. They have a natural flair for marrying stunning cinematic imagery to high melodrama backed by emotionally powerful scores that gets me every time. Somehow the Italians turn lack of subtlety into a virtue. Their cinema tends to go for the big emotions first making them the natural heirs of silent cinema imho. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Lots of serious spaghetti fans here Stephen. And not so serious. Here's my giallo from the generator posted above by my good Lady P: Death Squeezes the Rubber Duck Directed by Sergio & Martino de Alberto An attractive girl is killing off the members of a certain business organization in a church. An American priest discovers the murder. He kills the maniac in self-defense, but is mistakenly blamed for all the crimes by the police and arrested My favourite non-Argento / Bava giallo? Difficult one but I like Emilio P Miraglia's double bill of 'The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave' and 'The Red Queen Kills Seven Times' My own personal giallo title? 'Your Tights Are A Locked Room & I Have the Key'  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Black Cat with Teeth of Glass Directed by Xerxe Silveri A musician is strangled. His twin finds a letter that contains some unknown details about the the killing; and she is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a maniac. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
Exploitative 1970s WiP version: Black Cat, White Mouse | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
A Worm in Porcupine Skin Directed by Zazuma Xisco In 1970s Rome, a mute black leather glove manufacturer discovers the grim secret behind the famous tanning plant supplying raw material for his products. (Yea, yeah...so I just made the one up) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.217 |
My favorite giallo remains the late, slick, decadent, genre-crossing obvious-choice but still totally re-watchable DEEP RED.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.108.128 |
A Blind Lizard in a Field of Lilacs Directed by Franco Franco A medium vanishes in front of hundreds of witnesses on a busy street. A musician is a witness to the the mystery; and when another person is found murdered, he discovers that the presumed victim, the medium, is in fact a maniacal killer, and is still on the loose! These actually sound good. Export this programme to hollywood! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.108.128 |
'Somehow the Italians turn lack of subtlety into a virtue' - that's why I don't mind Dan Brown's mad sentences. Somewhere in the daftness is the well of creativity. (I've made up at least four words for this book I'm working on. It feels great.) | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
By lack of subtlety I mean the operatic bombast of their films. To get this to work as cinematic spectacle requires technical expertise and artistic fine tuning of the very highest calibre. I for one believe great cinema like great literature or classical music should be larger than life and attack the senses and the emotions. Italian cinema is GREAT, Dan Brown is shit... | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Tenebrae' would be my all-time fav giallo and Argento's masterpiece imho. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
The problem with Dan Brown's "Well of Creativity" is it tends to belong to other people. Holy Blood and The Holy Grail being the most obvious pot he dipped into to completely rip off someone else's story. So dire writing and no original thinking = a dreadful writer. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.105 |
TENEBRAE is a close second for me. But there's, I feel, many truly iconic moments in DEEP RED, for all its flaws, that just reward constant replaying. TENEBRAE has the grotesque spectacle of sheer lunatic violence going for it, but DEEP RED creeps under the skin, freaking you out, even when it's not being murderous.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.108.128 |
Are people deliberately misunderstanding me? I'm not talking about Brown per se, I'm talking about how fumbling can sometimes grasp. I'm talking about how a lack of skill can reach genius levels. Like the ODD sentence of Brown. Oh, I'm alone... | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.18.104 |
So alone... |