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For the Love of Gialli – Maitland McDonagh comments

July 13, 2019July 15, 2019 Maitland McDonagh 0 Comments gialli, giallo, Iguana With a Tongue of Fire, italian films, Perversion Story, Strip Nude for Your Killer

There was a time when few American moviegoers knew what giallo meant, but the gialli genre helped change the landscape of American films during the 1970s, a time of tumultuous changes in American filmmaking. Gialli brought a new sensibility to American shores—not to art houses, but to local cinemas and then television, video, DVD and streaming—one that has thrilled generations of moviegoers and moviemakers. Nightmares are discomfitingly potent dreams, and gialli are candy-colored nightmares it’s oh-so hard to resist.

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PERVERSION STORY – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 11, 2019June 8, 2020 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 0 Comments elsa martinelli, gialli, giallo, jean sorel, Lucio Fulci, marisa mell, One on Top of the Other, Perversion Story

Next to Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci is unarguably one of the giants of Italian horror. His extraordinary Gates of Hell trilogy – City of the Living Dead, The House By the Cemetery and The Beyond – are still as simultaneously beautiful and terrifying as they were on their first release in the early 1980s, The Beyond alone undeniably one of the greatest horror films of that decade full stop.