George Lazenby is an unlikely sleauth in Aldo Lado's oddly familiar Who Saw Her Die?/Chi l'ha vista morire? from 1972. Part one of our season finale! CW: Gendered violence, violence against children. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo Reading List La Dolce...

There' a lot of plot to figure out in Luciano Ercoli's 1972 thriller Death Walks at Midnight/La morte accarezza a mezzanotte. Are Dave and Jon up to the task? CW: Gendered violence, gore, gaslighting. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo Reading List La Dolce...

What's that saying about it not being over until the fat lady screams? Something like that anyway, as we discuss Dario Argento's 1987 shocker Opera. CW: Violence, gendered violence, child abuse, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo Reading List La...

Dave and Jon discuss an early calling card for the legendary Ernesto Gastaldi, who along with Vittorio Salerno (sorta), writes and directs1965's Libido. CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, gaslighting, mental illness. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo Reading...

An array of giallo regulars, and Stanley Baker, are confounded by a murder-within-a-dream in Lucio Fulci's bloody, brilliant 1971 classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin/Una lucertola con la pelle di donna. CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, drug use, gaslighting, animal cruelty, gore. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free...

Dave and Jon ponder another fateful meeting with Paul Naschy in Italy, no honest, it is, in León Klimovsky's A Dragonfly for Each Corpse/Una libélula para cada muerto (1975). CW: Sexualised violence, problematic LGBTIQA+ stereotypes. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio...

Jon and Dave asked for Star Wars for Christmas but the shops were were all sold out, so instead our nans got us Luigi Cozzi's delightful space opera shambles Starcrash/Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione (1978) instead. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo...

There's a voice reaching out in a piercing cry. It's definitely a case of "Argh! Vienna!" as Jon and Dave tackle the tantalising Edwige Fenech (if only) in Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh/Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971). CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, gaslighting, sexual assault. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution...

One of the eighties-est gialli ever, a story of boobs, intrigue, boobs, hallucinations, boobs, murder and boobs. It's Lamberto Bava's Delirium/Le foto di Gioia from 1987. CW: Gendered and sexualised violence, sexual assault, probkematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters and people with disabilities. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0...

There are terrible crimes being committed in an ancient castle - and that's just the Scottish accents. Dave and Jon tackle Antonio Margheriti's Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye/La morte negli occhi del gatto from 1973. CW: Gendered violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music...

Who is the mysterious masked figure terrorizing TV's Michael Brandon? And what is the strange connection between Dario Argento and Thomas the Tank Engine? All will be revealed as Dave and Jon tackle 1971's Four Flies on Grey Velvet/4 mosche di velluto grigio. CW: Gendered violence, mental illness, homophobic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu...

Due signori season three is here. Jon and Dave are lost in space in Luigi Bazzoni's baffling, beautiful Footprints on the Moon/Le orme (1975). CW: Mental illness, gaslighting, Klaus Kinski Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library Giallo Reading List La Dolce Morte:...

Season two comes to a bloody climax with one of the quintessential gialli, which bizarrely was made by a Hollywood director in the USA. Jon and Dave spend a New York minute delving into Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980). CW: Gendered and sexualised violence, victimisation of sex work, problematic and invalid depictions of trans characters Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by...

A rather tangiential festive episode as Jon and Dave discover the rain in Spain falls mainly on the deranged, with Jean Seberg and Marisol competing to have it away in a manger with Barry Stokes, in J.A. Bardem's 1973 film The Corruption of Chris(tmas?) Miller/La corrupción de Chris Miller.  CW: Sexual violence, rape, gendered violence, PTSD, the killing of a child. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our special Christmas theme...

Graphic violence, illicit liasons and chunky knitwear all feature prominently in this episode's film. Jon and Dave ponder who is killing the girls at an exclusive Catholic school in Massimo Dallamano's 1972 thriller What Have You Done to Solange?/Cosa avete fatto a Solange? CW: Gendered violence, rape, abortion, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative...

Two beautiful giallo queens, a faded Hollywood star, a remote Venetian island and a heavy sigh from Jon. It's Silvio Amadio's Amuck!/Alla ricerca del piacere, literally 'In Pursuit of Pleasure,' from 1972. Did we find any? Listen and see. CW: Gendered violence, rape. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free...

Jon and Dave venture back to the days when London's Covent Garden had several actual apple stores instead of an Apple Store, in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 return to form Frenzy. Lovely! CW: Gendered violence, rape, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio...

Dungeons, thigh boots, heroic serial killers and plot holes you could fit several pairs of t**s through? Jon and Dave come up against Emilio P. Miraglia's 1971 trashfest The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave/La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba. CW: Gendered violence, rape, sex work, animal cruelty, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons —...

How did we manage to do twenty of these things?? For their 20th discussion, Jon and Dave delve into the dark delights of Aldo Lado's 1971 classic Short Night of Glass Dolls/La corta notte delle bambole di vetro. CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, lucid surgery. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream...

Dave and Jon talk Hitchcock influence, movie strip clubs, and somewhat bizarrely the TV career of Emily Booth as they break down Lucio Fulci's swinging '69 giallo Perversion Story/One on Top of The Other/Una sull'altra. CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, the death penalty, exhumation. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading List La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven So Deadly, So...

A welcome return to familiar territory (and Carroll Baker) for Dave and Jon with Umberto Lenzi's not-at-all-awkwardly-named Orgasmo (1969), also known as Paranoia. Not to be confused with Lenzi/Baker's other giallo called Paranoia. Sigh... CW: Gendered violence, alcoholism, implied incest. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY...

Is Alfred Vohrer's 1967 murder mystery caper The College Girl Murders/Der Mönch mit der Peitsche the missing link between German krimi films and Italian gialli? Or is Dave an idiot? Jon has strong feelings on both.   CW: Gendered violence, sexual assault, the Holocaust. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading List La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven So Deadly, So Perverse: 50...

This time, Jon and Dave take a sidestep into Proper Film™ as we attempt to ascertain if a movie that influenced a lot of gialli, Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary Blowup (1966), is itself a giallo. Also, whether anything happens in the movie. CW: Homophobic language, sexual assault. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY...

It's season 2 of Due signori in giallo! We're back to (almost) the beginning with the Italian gothic/giallo hybrid The Murder Clinic, a.k.a. La lama nel corpo (1966), directed by Lionello De Felice and Elio Scardamaglia. CW: Gendered violence, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music...