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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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.
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
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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
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
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Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
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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
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
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Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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