Giallo:in Italian, literally means “yellow”. The term refers to a series of pulp paperbacks which were first published by the Mondadori publishing house back in 1929. These books came in yellow covers. Over the years, the word has come to mean something quite significant to horror movie lovers the world over. Giallo films are horror-thriller films that are bloody, gory, sexy and a bit exploitative.
The film genre that emerged from these novels in the 1960s began as literal adaptations of the books, but soon began taking advantage of modern cinematic techniques to create a unique genre. Films known abroad as "gialli" are called
thrilling or simply "thriller" in Italy, the first term usually referring to Italian 1970s classics by directors like
Dario Argento or Mario BavaThis is a list of
Notable giallo films:
# They're Coming to Get You (Sergio Martino, 1972, also known as All the Colors of the Dark, Day of the Maniac, Demons of the Dead)
# Torso (Sergio Martino, 1973)
# Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi, 1974, also known as The Devil's Eye, The Eye, The Secret Killer, Wide-Eyed in the Dark)
# A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (León Klimovsky, 1974, also known as Red Killer)
# Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975, also known as Profondo Rosso , The Hatchet Murders, The Sabre Tooth Tiger)
# Strip Nude for Your Killer (Andrea Bianchi, 1975)
# Alice, Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976)
# The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati, 1976, also known as Casa dalle finestre che ridono, La)
# The Psychic (Lucio Fulci, 1977, also known as Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes, Seven Notes in Black)
# The Blood Stained Shadow (Antonio Bido, 1978, also known as Solamente nero)
# Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982, also known as Unsane or Under the Eyes of the Assassin)
# The New York Ripper (Lucio Fulci, 1982)
# The Pencil Murders (Guy Lee Thys, 1982)
