Due signori in giallo

Due signori season three is here. Jon and Dave are lost in space in Luigi Bazzoni's baffling, beautiful Footprints on the Moon/Le orme (1975). CW: Mental illness, gaslighting, Klaus Kinski 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 — Attribution 3.0 Unported—...

Season two comes to a bloody climax with one of the quintessential gialli, which bizarrely was made by a Hollywood director in the USA. Jon and Dave spend a New York minute delving into Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980). CW: Gendered and sexualised violence, victimisation of sex work, problematic and invalid depictions of trans characters Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Avail...

A rather tangiential festive episode as Jon and Dave discover the rain in Spain falls mainly on the deranged, with Jean Seberg and Marisol competing to have it away in a manger with Barry Stokes, in J.A. Bardem's 1973 film The Corruption of Chris (tmas?) Miller/La corrupción de Chris Miller.   CW: Sexual violence, rape, gendered violence, PTSD, the killing of a child. Copyright ©...

Graphic violence, illicit liasons and chunky knitwear all feature prominently in this episode's film. Jon and Dave ponder who is killing the girls at an exclusive Catholic school in Massimo Dallamano's 1972 thriller What Have You Done to Solange?/Cosa avete fatto a Solange? CW: Gendered violence, rape, abortion, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc a...

Two beautiful giallo queens, a faded Hollywood star, a remote Venetian island and a heavy sigh from Jon. It's Silvio Amadio's Amuck!/Alla ricerca del piacere , literally 'In Pursuit of Pleasure,' from 1972. Did we find any? Listen and see. CW: Gendered violence, rape. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark...

Jon and Dave venture back to the days when London's Covent Garden had several actual apple stores instead of an Apple Store, in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 return to form Frenzy . Lovely! CW: Gendered violence, rape, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 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...

Dungeons, thigh boots, heroic serial killers and plot holes you could fit several pairs of tits through? Jon and Dave come up against Emilio P. Miraglia's 1971 trashfest The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave/La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba . CW: Gendered violence, rape, sex work, animal cruelty, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and s...

How did we manage to do twenty of these things?? For their 20th discussion, Jon and Dave delve into the dark delights of Aldo Lado's 1971 classic Short Night of Glass Dolls/La corta notte delle bambole di vetro . CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, lucid surgery. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Pian...

Dave and Jon talk Hitchcock influence, movie strip clubs, and somewhat bizarrely the TV career of Emily Booth as they break down Lucio Fulci's swinging '69 giallo Perversion Story/One on Top of The Other/Una sull'altra . CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, the death penalty, exhumation. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading L...

A welcome return to familiar territory (and Carroll Baker) for Dave and Jon with Umberto Lenzi's not-at-all-awkwardly-named Orgasmo (1969), also known as Paranoia . Not to be confused with Lenzi/Baker's other giallo called Paranoia. Sigh... CW: Gendered violence, alcoholism, implied incest. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme mu...

Is Alfred Vohrer's 1967 murder mystery caper The College Girl Murders/Der Mönch mit der Peitsche the missing link between German krimi films and Italian gialli? Or is Dave an idiot? Jon has strong feelings on both.   CW: Gendered violence, sexual assault, the Holocaust. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading List La...

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. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme mus...

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. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Ve...

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. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading List La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel...

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. Copyright © 2021 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 Free Downl...

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. Copyright © 2021 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 &mda...

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. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library

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. Copyright © 2021 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...

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. Copyright © 2021 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 —...

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. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: So Deadly, So Perverse: Volume 2: 50 Year...

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. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: La Dolce Mor...

Dave and Jon find the countryside less than relaxing in Lucio Fulci's magnificent 1972 rural giallo Don't Torture a Duckling/Non si sevizia un paperino . CW: Gendered violence, child killing, underage sex, drug use, mental illness. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thr...

Dave and Jon have their first encounter with giallo queen Edwige Fenech in Sergio Martino's 1972 classic All the Colors of the Dark/Tutti i colori del buio . CW: rape, gendered violence, sexualised violence, animal cruelty, gaslighting. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger...

The giallo comes alive in Dario Argento's legendary 1970 film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage/L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo . CW: gendered violence, sexualised violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Ci...

Pop art explodes in an orgy of gaslighting, funkadelic disco sounds and unfortunate body suits in Romolo Guerrieri's 1968 treat The Sweet Body of Deborah/Il dolce corpo di Deborah . CW: gendered violence, suicide, gaslighting. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com (the various German blu-ray releases contain the Italian track with English s...