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Luigi Pistilli loves p***y (well, he does live with Edwige Fenech) in Sergio Martino's Poe-inspired Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key/Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (1972). CW: Violence, gendered violence, rape, racism, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2026 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth DISCLAIMER: Due signori in giallo is produced without the use of generative AI. Its contents may NOT be used for AI training.

It's far from a perfect world as Dave and Jon tackle Dario Piana's music video-cum-giallo Too Beautiful to Die/Sotto il vestito niente II (1988). CW: Violence, gendered violence, rape, racist attitudes. Copyright © 2026 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Dario Piana's award-winning pata commercial: Silenzio Parla Agnesi 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

After fifty episodes Jon is sill talking to Dave and hadn't tried to inter him in a wall (yet). Has Lucio Fulci's 1977 film The Psychic/Sette note in nero given him ideas? CW: Violence, gendered violence, gore. Copyright © 2026 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

Our five-year anniversary episode, and we're choosing to celebrate with Dario Argento and Max Von Sydow in Sleepless/Non ho sonno from 2001. CW: Violence, gendered violence, problematic portrayals of people with disabilities. Copyright © 2026 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

"Depressingly timely" is one way of looking at Luigi Bazzoni's 1971 corker The Fifth Cord/Giornata nera per l'ariete, and not just because it's partly set on New Year's Eve. CW: Violence, gendered violence, sexual abuse of minors, problematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2026 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

Slay bells ring in 1980s London as Dave and Jon tackle Edmund Purdom et al's Don't Open till Christmas (1984). CW: Violence, gendered violence, problematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

We're back with the very liberated Susan Scott and her beau Luciano Ercoli, along with a host of giallo regulars, for Ercoli's first giallo The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion/Le foto proibite di una signora per bene, from 1970. CW: Violence, gendered violence, sexual assault. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

In this episode we take a departure to Hong Kong's mighty Shaw Brothers studio, for Kuei Chih-Hung'a grisly 1981 horror Corpse Mania/Shi yao. CW: Violence, gendered violence, gore, necrophilia. Copyright © 2025 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 (special Hong Kong edition) Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment by David Bordwell Hong Kong Action Cinema by Bey Logan The Essential Guide to Deadly China Dolls compiled by Rick Baker and Toby Russell, edited by Lisa Baker So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World

British national treasure Francis Matthews (Paul Temple, Dracula: Prince of Darkness) is faced with a different kind of scarlet in Stelvio Massi's 1974 giallo Five Women for the Killer/5 donne per l'assassino. CW: Violence, gendered violence, fertilitiy issues, death during pregnancy. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

What do we see in Umberto Lenzi's final true giallo, 1975's Eyeball/Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro? Listen and find out. CW: Violence, gendered violence, problematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

Giulio Questi's poulty-themed 1968 film Death Laid an Egg/La morte ha fatto l'uovo confounds Dave and Jon. Were we beaten, or is it a clucking masterpiece? CW: Violence, gendered violence, animal cruelty, real scenes of animal killing. Copyright © 2025 David Thomas and Jon Dear Bruno Maderna - Hyperion III: YouTube 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

Married life meets giallo sleaze. Dave and Jon examine a strange state of affairs with Roberto Bianchi Montero's 1972 wandering-eye giallo So Sweet, So Dead/Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile. CW: Violence, gendered violence, misogyny, homophobic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

We're back for our fourth season and fortieth episode. Dang, if only Mimsy Farmer had been in a famous movie with 'four' in the title... Instead we catch up with her being affected by the heat in Armando Crispino's 1975 shocker Autopsy/Macchie solari. (Re-uploaded with slightly better audio balance). CW: Violence, sexual violence, self harm, suicide, real autopsy images. Copyright © 2025 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: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

Season 3 finally wraps with a giallo-esque classic, in part 2 of our dead-child-in-Venice epic, Nic Roeg's 1973 film Don't Look Now. CW: Violence, gendered violence, death of a child. 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 Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth

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 Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth Volume 1: 1963-1973 Volume 2: 1974-2013 Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth