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July 09 Episode 52: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Luigi Pistilli loves pussy (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.
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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
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1 hr 1 min
May 29 Episode 51: Too Beautiful to Die
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
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Dario Piana's award-winning pata commercial: Silenzio Parla Agnesi
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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
55 min
April 24 Episode 50: The Psychic
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
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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
57 min
March 18 Episode 49: Sleepless
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
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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
1 hr 10 min
February 06 Episode 48: The Fifth Cord
"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
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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
1 hr 2 min
December 19, 2025 Episode 47: Don't Open Till Christmas
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
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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
1 hr
November 21, 2025 Episode 46: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
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
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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
53 min
October 03, 2025 Episode 45: Corpse Mania
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
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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
1 hr 1 min
September 05, 2025 Episode 44: Five Women for the Killer
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
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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
53 min
August 08, 2025 Episode 43: Eyeball
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
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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
50 min