Sentences with phrase «italian giallo films»
On the heels of Suspiria and Inferno, Argento released one such gem, Tenebrae (or Tenebre, if you prefer) in 1982, an Italian Giallo film that most consider to be one of his best.
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What is an Italian giallo film?
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Written and directed by Michele Soavi of Cemetery Man (1994) and The Church (1989) fame, this documentary from 1985 takes an in - depth look at Dario Argento, the master Italian director most well known for his «giallo» horror films.
Giallo («yellow» in Italian, referencing pulpy yellow - covered crime books) films, which emerged in Italy during the 1960s, are narratively akin to thrillers, often centred on crime, murder, paranoia and powerful sexuality.
The new audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, serves as an efficient one - stop shop for fans looking to brush up on the history of the film's genesis.
A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Though the genre's invention (named after the yellow / giallo covers of Italian penny dreadfuls) is credited to compatriot Mario Bava (see, especially, his astonishing Blood and Black Lace), Argento's scary polish and cunning for film language bridged the cultural, mainstream / arthouse gap with agility and audacity.
Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction films as well).
Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull from are 1960s - 70s Italian giallo (slasher) films, blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and spaghetti Westerns.
Keaton, the grand - niece of silent film icon Buster Keaton, had previously appeared in six «giallo» Italian horror movies.
If you're a giallo newbie and you're looking for a starting point into the world of wildly violent Italian horror films, seek out Dario Argento's disconcertingly beautiful Suspiria.
The second feature by British writer / director Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio is named after the film's setting: a fictional Italian post-production studio doing the post-synched audio recording for a particularly nasty 1976 giallo film titled The Equestrian Vortex.
The UK's Shameless Films seem to have a particular fondness for the torture and torment of Italian film siren Edwige Fenech at the hands of giallo legend Sergio Martino; but then again, I can't really blame them.
As seemed to be the convention for Italian thrillers for the next twenty years, Bava had an American actor playing the love interest who may or may not be involved in a crime that veers, at the film's precise midpoint, towards a series of implausible, ridiculous twists endemic of a standard giallo.
Deepening and amplifying their super-fetishistic remix of Italian giallo and horror tropes in Amer (ND / NF 2010), Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani here create a delirious and increasingly baroque pastiche of the trance film and cinema fantastique — and then push it to breaking point.
Bava made dozens of films in the sixties and seventies as a director, writer and cinematographer, helping to launch the «giallo» genre of Italian cinema and re-inventing the slasher film.