Tag: giallo
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Hooptober 10.0 – V/H/S/85 (2023)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2023 Oh V/H/S franchise…after so many entries have you finally gotten to the point where there’s nothing left to say? The rapidly diminishing returns of the shorts, the frayed ends of commitment to the format…all of that caused me to drop out after the initial run of film that ended…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Bay of Blood (1971)
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2023 NOTE: Using this opportunity to revisit a review I wrote for this film fifteen years ago, slightly cleaned up and reflecting my recent re-watch of this classic. Although now armed with with experience of many of the Master’s films, prior to my first viewing of Bay of Blood, aka…
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Hooptober 10.0 – The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2023 And so I come to end of my giallo journey with Sergio Martino, whose films I started digging into back in May when I went on a spree with the Italian killer flicks. The Suspicious Death of a Minor was the last of Martino’s films to really have anything…
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Hooptober X #4: Knife+Heart
Film can represent the external and internal life of humanity in ways no other art form outside of maybe comic books. Films can attempt to mimic every day life and they can attempt to mimic the imagery of dreams. The two can exist both separate or together on the silver screen. The modern giallo horror…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The House With Laughing Windows (1976)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2022 There are certain things we come to expect when we sit down with a giallo, named for the yellow color adorning lurid tales of sex and murder popular in Italy as far back as the 30s: twisted violence and garish colors. Point of view kills. Hands covered in black…