Not Rated Stars: Hiram Keller, What is so significant is how by employing a big frightening house and mad characters, Martino managed to make a decent horror movie in which you sense death lurking behind the door.
Eva Bartok, R Lorenza Guerrieri, Françoise Christophe, Is the killer their ancestor, ... See full summary », Director: John Richardson, A musician is stalked and blackmailed by an unknown killer for the accidental killing of another stalker. | Nasty Nun shenanigans with Anita Ekberg as the despicable sister who manages to carry on abominably with a full face of perfect make up on the entire time (is that within Vatican rules?). Andrea Occhipinti, Not Rated
The ultimate giallo documentary has yet to be made. | Giallo representa una dura competencia entre el guion, la dirección y la edición para definir qué es lo más deplorable en esta película. Titti Tomaino, Not Rated And boy are we glad that they did! Have you ever wondered what movies people have watched but don't feel…, "just a big list of documentary/ish/informational video" migrating here from an old rym list (). Thomas Reiner, | Gross:
90 min Argento’s first major non-Giallo directing job doesn’t stray too far from the style he established in his previous film Deep Red. $31.90M, 120 min The victims all seem to have a connection with a spa. First up is Bava who was already well respected and really kicked things off with blood and black lace. When therapy doesn’t work, try Satanism. This quite rare movie by Sergio Martino is an odd thing. It did lack that flair, style, and 'wow' factor that we're used to from him but overall it was watchable and actually I would even go as far as saying I enjoyed it. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. | However, unlike its sister films, Killer Nun has nothing political to say about the state of women in the clergy/Catholic Church. A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art. Jean-Pierre Marielle, An informative yet barebones giallo documentary from Severin. | | Byung-hun Lee, Film data from TMDb. Mystery, Thriller. Giallo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒallo]; plural gialli) is the Italian term designating mystery fiction. Four Flies on Grey Velvet is the final film in Argento’s infamous (but in no way structurally connected) “animal trilogy.” Four Flies literalizes the eye as a photographic camera, toying with the theory that a dead person’s retina retains the last image he or she sees before they die. The interviews just go on and on with very little cutting, and it’s frankly boring to watch at times. Not Rated 130 min | | Barbara Bouchet, Directors like Bava, Argento, Fulci, Lenzi, and Margheriti continued to produce gialli throughout the 70s and beyond, and were soon joined by other notable directors including Sergio Martino, Paolo Cavara, Armando Crispino, Ruggero Deodato and Bava's son Lamberto Bava. Stars: | Horror, Mystery, Thriller. | Perhaps his most famous is the obscure Blood Delirium (1988), which stars John Phillip Law as a man who believes he is the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh (think Blood Feast). This is not "Be Natural". Sergio Martino Masaaki Ôkura, Votes: Seven Deaths is punctuated by some finely crafted suspense, dark family secrets, an excellent cast – and did I mention a gorilla? Close ups of her near-masturbatory activities turn horrific when she’s grabbed by a black-gloved hand, and threatened with a razor.
The film is visually striking, mostly shot at night, punctuated with vivid bursts of colour, and benefits from a striking, satisfying climax. $3.19M, R Stars:
Urbano Barberini, 104 min The plot is meta, but not excessively so, and the story holds together in a way many other Argento films don’t bother to attempt.
Fulci here for the first time combines sex with gore and the result is one of the most disturbing and pervert movies in giallo history.But the movie with its enigmatic title is not just about sex and gore, according to giallo expert Danny Shipka, the film provides a thought-provoking depiction of life and politics in a small town of Italy. Not Rated |