Due signori in giallo

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. Copyright © 2026 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Nig...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Dario Piana's award-winning pata commercial: Silenzio Parla Agnesi Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Pia...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unpo...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons &m...

"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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Ni...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported&mdash...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme musi...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported&m...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme musi...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3...

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 Bruno Maderna - Hyperion III: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Common...

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 Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-r...

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 Dav...

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 Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC...

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 Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unpo...

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 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Un...

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 — Attribut...

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 Creative Commons — Att...

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: Silen...

Dave and Jon ponder another fateful meeting with Paul Naschy in Italy, no honest, it is, in León Klimovsky's A Dragonfly for Each Corpse/Una libélula para cada muerto (1975). CW: Sexualised violence, problematic LGBTIQA+ stereotypes. Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by my...

Jon and Dave asked for Star Wars for Christmas but the shops were were all sold out, so instead our nans got us Luigi Cozzi's delightful space opera shambles Starcrash/Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione (1978) instead. Copyright © 2023 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 &...

There's a voice reaching out in a piercing cry. It's definitely a case of "Argh! Vienna!" as Jon and Dave tackle the tantalising Edwige Fenech (if only) in Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh/Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971). CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, gaslighting, sexual assault. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-r...

One of the eighties-est gialli ever, a story of boobs, intrigue, boobs, hallucinations, boobs, murder and boobs. It's Lamberto Bava's Delirium/Le foto di Gioia  from 1987. CW: Gendered and sexualised violence, sexual assault, probkematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters and people with disabilities. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.co...

There are terrible crimes being committed in an ancient castle - and that's just the Scottish accents. Dave and Jon tackle Antonio Margheriti's Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye/La morte negli occhi del gatto from 1973. CW: Gendered violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version...

Who is the mysterious masked figure terrorizing TV's Michael Brandon? And what is the strange connection between Dario Argento and Thomas the Tank Engine? All will be revealed as Dave and Jon tackle 1971's Four Flies on Grey Velvet/4 mosche di velluto grigio . CW: Gendered violence, mental illness, homophobic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availab...