Tag: giallo
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Fifth Cord (1971)
Being Film #20 for Hooptober 2025 After seeing Luigi Bazzoni’s debut film The Possessed earlier for this marathon, I was even more eager to check out The Fifth Cord, his second foray into giallo, particularly as that film straddled the line between dreamlike noir and paranoid Lynchian nightmare more than what we would come to…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Possessed (1965)
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2025 Films like The Possessed, or La Donna del Lago in its original Italian, are the reason I constantly try to seek out new films whenever Hooptober comes around. A proto-giallo that also functions as an Italian noir evoking the dream-like narratives David Lynch would forge just over a decade…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire (1971)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2024 Sometimes a film is so generic, so typical of its genre trappings without standing out there’s very little to write about. I’m actually kind of curious as what the two critics on the audio commentary for Riccardo Freda’s The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire would talk about, because…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2024 Last May I went on a big giallo kick, and out the vast number of new films discovered one of my favorites was The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, a great title for a gothic tale that had all sorts of twists and turns and some truly gorgeous cinematography.…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Being Film #1 for Hooptober 2024 Despite having worked together on Dawn Of The Dead, it still feels a little odd putting George A. Romero and Dario Argento together on a film. Those are two styles and aesthetics that just don’t taste right bumped up against each other. That would imply Two Evil Eyes, their…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975)
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2023 And so we come to end of the 10th annual Hooptober Marathon. And it had to end with a giallo, the mixed up genre I’ve been feverishly catching up on this year. The second I saw the title Strip Nude For Your Killer I knew I needed to see…