Giallo Films

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 39. Chapters: Tenebrae, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood and Black Lace, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Giallo, The New York Ripper, Deep Red, Do You Like Hitchcock?, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Phenomena, The House on the Edge of the Park, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Opera, Trauma, Stage Fright, Hitch-Hike, Lust for Vengeance, Amer, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Torso, What Have You Done to Solange?, The House with Laughing Windows, Sleepless, A Blade in the Dark, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, The Card Player, Camping del Terrore, Black Belly of the Tarantula, Who Saw Her Die?, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Macabre, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Delirium, The Dead Are Alive, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Phantom of Death, Five Dolls for an August Moon, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Assassination in Rome. Excerpt: Tenebrae (also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, and Daria Nicolodi. After having experimented with two exercises in pure supernatural horror, Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980), Tenebrae represented Argento's return to the giallo form, a sub-genre he had helped popularize in the 1970s. The story concerns an American writer promoting his latest murder-mystery novel in Rome, only to get embroiled in the search for a serial-killer who has apparently been inspired to kill by the novel. The film was released in Italy and throughout most of Europe without experiencing any reported censorship problems, but was classified, prosecuted, and banned as a "video nasty" in the United Kingdom. Its theatrical distribution in the United States was delayed until 1984, when it was released in a heavily censored...