Giallo is a subgenre of horror films that gets less praise from the general American audience than it deserves. Gialli are Italian based, deriving from the word yellow, describing the yellow spine of the murder mystery books of the 1920s. Yeah, Gialli eventually became the American slasher film, but Giallo is very different from modern-day slashers. They share similarities such as a killer stalking beautiful people, blood, and sexual themes, but Gialli focuses more on the mystery of the killer and tends to have a bit more style to the look of the film. I’ve gone to great lengths in other reviews to better break down Gialli. So If you want a more in-depth look at Giallo films, then check out some of my other reviews. I’ve covered films from Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Sergio Martino, and Lucio Fulci, all of whom are some of the best directors of the genre… but I’m forgetting a name, a big name. Mario Bava! The father of the Giallo movement! Taking cues from the Giallo mystery thrillers as well as being inspired by Hitchcock, Bava cemented himself as a master of this form. He started by making a name for himself in the horror genre with hits like Black Sunday and Black Sabbath before he created the modern Giallo with The Girl Who Knew too Much. The title of which was copied from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew too much from 1934 and 1956... And yes Alfred Hitchcock remade his own movie. Now, this is the embarrassing part. I’ve only seen one Mario Bava film and I saw it when I was around 13. My local dollar tree sold 2 film DVD packs and so I picked up all the horror ones I could find. The packages have seen better days, but these are some of my earliest deep dives into the horror genre. Now even though I didn’t know anything about directors back then, I did know that Hatchet for a Honeymoon was my favorite of these films. So that’s it. I have seen 1 Mario Bava film about 17 years ago… I think it’s about time I see another. Why not start with the most influential Giallo of all time? Blood and black lace. Twitter: @Hellbound_HS Instagram: hellbound_hs Graveyard Shift" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41UW8hyNOU

Beyond the Door (1974) is one part The Exorcist, one part Rosemary's Baby, and two parts crap. Join us on Social Media: Twitter: @Hellbound_HS "Graveyard Shift" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kdP_5clNq4