This time, Jon and Dave take a sidestep into Proper Film™ as we attempt to ascertain if a movie that influenced a lot of gialli, Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary Blowup (1966), is itself a giallo. Also, whether anything happens in the movie.

CW: Homophobic language, sexual assault.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

It's season 2 of Due signori in giallo! We're back to (almost) the beginning with the Italian gothic/giallo hybrid The Murder Clinic, a.k.a. La lama nel corpo (1966), directed by Lionello De Felice and Elio Scardamaglia.

CW: Gendered violence, mental illness.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

With a Christmas special to record and no festive giallo to be found, Jon and Dave turn instead to Canada (the Italy of North America) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974).

CW: Gendered violence, abortion, rape.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

Dave and Jon close out season one with Michele Soavi's 1987 giallo/slasher hybrid Stage Fright, a.k.a. Deliria.

CW: Gendered violence, problematic gender stereotypes.

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More information on slasher films:
Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies by Jim Harper

Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

Dave and Jon find that being set in Australia isn't the only atypical thing about Flavio Mogherini's downbeat 1978 film The Pyjama Girl Case/La ragazza dal pigiama giallo.

CW: Gendered violence, miscarriage, spousal abuse.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

Bonus mini-episode/shameless filer: actors find work in some strange projects, much to the amusement of Jon and I..

CW: Gendered violence, animal cruelty.

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Dave and Jon finally arrive at maybe the greatest of all gialli, Dario Argento's 1975 masterwork Deep Red/Profondo rosso.

CW: Gendered violence, childhood trauma, gender stereotypes, animal cruelty.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

Dave and Jon are lost in an oddly Gallic version of Spain in Carlos Aured and Paul Naschy's 1974 giallo Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll/Los Ojos Azules de la Muñeca Rota.

CW: Gendered violence, rape, animal cruelty.

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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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

Inspector Dave and District Attorney Jon investigate a dark and disturbing sex crime ring in Massimo Dallamano's What Have They Done to Your Daughters?/La polizia chiede aiuto (1974).

CW: Child sexual abuse, sexualised violence, coercion, rape.

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La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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Dave and Jon wonder what's real and what isn't in Francesco Barilli's The Perfume of the Lady in Black/Il profumo della signora in nero (1974).

CW: Childhood trauma, mental illness, rape, racial stereotyping, gaslighting, suicide.

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La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

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