Giallo and exploitation cinema

The giallo takes its name from the yellow covers of crime novels sold in Italian railway stations. On screen it became a genre recognisable by its black gloves, its murders composed like paintings, its saturated colours and its witnesses who have seen without understanding. Bava set the rules in 1964 in a fashion house, Argento pushed the device towards opera in a German dance academy, Fulci abandoned all logic in favour of nightmare. This genre cinema fed American horror for decades afterwards.

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• CinemaThe Horrible Dr. HichcockL'orribile segreto del Dr. HichcockRiccardo Freda · 1962London, 1885. A surgeon remarries, and his new wife knows nothing of the first.Cinema
• CinemaBlood and Black Lace6 donne per l'assassinoMario Bava · 1964The models of a fashion house die one after another.Cinema
• CinemaThe Strange Vice of Mrs. WardhLo strano vizio della signora WardhSergio Martino · 1971A woman caught between a former lover who pursues her and a killer on the prowl.Cinema
• CinemaSuspiriaDario Argento · 1977An American student arrives at a German ballet school where fear sets in from the very first evening.Cinema
• CinemaThe Beyond...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilàLucio Fulci · 1981A hotel in Louisiana reopens after fifty years, and what had been walled up beneath it has not gone away.Cinema