Top Giallo Movies
By ALAN TONER
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Top Giallo Movies takes a look at some of the most popular Italian bloody crime/horror thrillers ever made. From the very first true giallo movie, Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much, right up to such later classics of the genre as The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Deep Red, this book provides a highly informative, entertaining and insightful guide to the history of this popular genre.
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Top Giallo Movies - ALAN TONER
Top Giallo Movies
by Alan Toner
www.alantoner.com
Copyright © 2019 Alan Toner
www.alantoner.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author.
About The Author
Alan Toner was born on Merseyside. He has always enjoyed writing and has published a string of true paranormal books, and some of his horror fiction, online.
His official website is: www.alantoner.com/
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CONTENTS
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Chapter One: What is a Giallo Movie?
Chapter Two: The First Giallo Movie
Chapter Three: Blood and Black Lace
Chapter Four: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Chapter Five: A Bay of Blood
Chapter Six: Don’t Torture A Duckling
Chapter Seven: Cat o’ Nine Tails
Chapter Eight: Four Flies On Grey Velvet
Chapter Nine: What Have You Done To Solange?
Chapter Ten: Your Vice Is A Locked Room, And Only I Have The Key
Chapter Eleven: Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Chapter Twelve: Torso
Chapter Thirteen: A Blade In The Dark
Chapter Fourteen: Perfume of the Lady In Black
Chapter Fifteen: The Case of the Scorpion’s Tale
Chapter Sixteen: Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Chapter Seventeen: A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Chapter Eighteen: Dressed To Kill
Chapter Nineteen: Death Carries A Cane
Chapter Twenty: The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Chapter Twenty-One: The New York Ripper
Author’s Note
Chapter 1: What is a Giallo Movie?
A giallo movie is a 20th-century Italian genre of film in which there is usually an unknown, shadowy, masked killer who stalks, and usually slaughters, a string of innocent people. In addition to copious amounts of blood and gore, not to mention the many trendy fashions sported by all kinds of jet-setting, beautiful people, the giallo movie usually incorporates detective and mystery elements. There may also be a sub plot or two thrown in for good measure (e.g. the hero’s relationship with his wife, lover or boss etc.). In short, giallo is synonymous with thriller
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The term giallo
comes from a series of crime/mystery pulp novels entitled Il Giallo Mondadori (Mondadori Yellow), which were published by Mondadori, the largest publishing company in Italy, from 1929. Giallo means yellow
in Italian, and so this colour was the trademark of this series of books. The series, with its eye-catching lurid paperback covers, usually featured translations of popular American crime fiction, although both European and Italian writers have started to be included more regularly.
Although Italy is considered to be the epicentre of giallo movies, there have also been many quality films of this genre produced by other countries like Spain, in addition to the French and English co-productions. Brian De Palma’s 1980 classic Dressed To Kill is deemed by many to be the nearest America has got to producing an Italian-style giallo movie. Going back even further, to 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho could