giallo

• “The use of the term giallo is a bit problematic in almost all foreign non italian film writing.”

  The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)

• “It always seemed like the term giallo evolved into what it did in the 80s/90s thanks to horror zines published in the US & Europe such as Gore Zone and Deep Red.”

  Perversion Story

• “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.”

  DVD Times

• “I’m more inclined to think that Americans or just newbies to Italian horror/thrillers use the term giallo in a much broader sense.”

  Perversion Story

• “(The word giallo means yellow, and refers to the covers of a popular series of paperback thrillers published by Mondadori.)”

  NYT > Home Page

• “I’ve always thought (from my own reading) that the genre was pretty specific and based on stylized violence first seen in Bava’s films like Blood and Black Lace (btw - just for the record -Bava’s responsible for the black gloved killer idea in Italian giallo and Argento’s borrowed many of his best ideas from Bava).”

  Perversion Story

• “A movie like Perversion Story seems to obviously be just a stylish erotic crime thriller Fulci himself called it a “fantasy” film and never used the term giallo to describe it from what I’ve read.”

  Perversion Story

• “Aficionados of the pulp Italian genre known as giallo will be nodding their heads in recognition at new French movie Amer – a striking, stylish new horror that borrows liberally from the likes of Dario Argento, with its stroboscopic montage, extreme close-ups and stylised colour schemes.”

  The Guardian: This week's new film events

• “La Verità Secondo Satana and Delirium belong, of course, to that film genre known as giallo--so called because of the yellow-covered books that inspired it.”

  The Groovy Age of Horror

• “Mr. Argento, 67, has devoted most of his career to the Italian suspense genre known as giallo, which designates a kind of hyperbolic serial-killer mystery, generally with urban settings and disturbingly creative murders.”

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