giallo

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Gialli had been around for years, first appearing in the late 1920s in the form of a series of yellow-covered paperbacks ( "giallo" is Italian for "yellow"), most of which were translations of popular detective fiction by the likes of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle.

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  • Blood and Black Lace deserves to be seen not only for its legacy spot as a giallo or as a Slasher, but because it's a beguiling, often visually scrumptious example of how a good director can take a shitty story and turn it into arresting cinema. —  Strange Ink
  • Darkness of the Night aka Nerezza Della Notte (if you want to be pretentious, and fake-giallo - and they do). —  Pretty/Scary
  • As the title presumes, it starts off like a typical giallo: A man with sunglasses stalks and slashes a young woman. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • The House with Laughing Windows isn't a typical giallo film and I hesitate to use the term here, but it does have plenty of giallo-style flourishes that should appeal to fans of the genre. —  C I N E B E A T S
  • It opens up like a giallo (Italian thriller, much like Dario Argento's first few movies) as an old woman in a wheelchair is murdered by a pair of black-gloved hands. —  Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
 

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