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Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) - Mikey B

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key may be the longest title of a film I’ve ever seen.  Here we have yet another giallo from the underrated Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colors of the Dark, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh), and this time he focuses more on the story [...]

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Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975) - Mikey B

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

When watching a giallo, you  expect a certain amount of mystery, a good amount of murder, some blood letting and nudity (depending on the director), red herrings everywhere to throw the audience off the trail, and a killer that is not revealed until much later on..  When watching a giallo entitled Strip Nude For Your [...]

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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) - Mikey B

July 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Sergio Martino has directed many, many giallo films, (Case of the Scorpion’s Tale, All the Colors of Dark, and Torso – which I love, to name a few)  but, everyone has to start somewhere, and one of his first films was The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.  If you think the name’s strange well, the [...]

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Bay of Blood (1971) - Mikey B

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

What if I told you that once upon a time slasher films weren’t generic and some even had a point to their story?  You’d probably call me a liar and smack me upside the head with a brick.  But, I swear it was true.  Some might say these early slasher films are giallos, but at [...]

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Tags: B-Movie · DVD · Exploitation · Giallo · Italian · Mystery · Review · Slasher

Opera (1987) - Mikey B

June 21st, 2008 · 17 Comments

You know that dream where everything is finally going right, and then…BAM!…you’re falling into a black pit, sinking deeper and deeper while racing into the unknown, and, just before you splat into a mess on the ground below…you wake up? The visceral experience is so real that you jerk awake drenched in sweat, screaming, or [...]

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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) - Mikey B

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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What Have You Done to Solange? (or WHYDtS?) may be one of my favorite Giallo films I’ve ever seen. Not only is the film made extremely well, but the score is performed by none other than Ennio Morricone (the man behind some of the greatest Spaghetti western themes ever). This mystery has [...]

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Tags: Crime · Foreign · Giallo · Italian · Review · Uncategorized

Who Saw Her Die? (1972)

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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Within the first minutes of Who Saw Her Die?, A young girl is murdered at the hands of an unidentifiable killer being shown as a woman dressed in black with a veil covering her face. Flash forward four years and we see Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi of Baron Blood and Deep Red fame) arriving from [...]

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The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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I am admittedly lacking when it comes to my giallo library, but not because of any negative feelings I have towards the genre. I really do love it. I decided to start watching and re-watching some of the better films so that I could write up some reviews and hopefully turn someone else on [...]

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Tags: Crime · Foreign · Giallo · Italian · Review