Michele Soavi was, for a time, the last hope of a doomed Italian horror/fantasy filmmaking community. Having been brought up through the...

As it flourished in the post-WWII era, the Italian film industry worked in genre cycles, such as peplum (sword & sandal) films, spaghetti...

The late Jesús ‘Jess’ Franco, who passed away on April 2nd of 2013 , was among the most prolific filmmakers of all time. There are wonderful

Pasquale Festa Campanile’s Hitch-Hike (Italian: Autostop rosso sangue; aka: Death Drive and Naked Prey, 1977) was born out of the...

Mario Gariazzo’s Play Motel (1979) was made in response to the popular [I]giallo[/I] thrillers that the Italian film industry pumped out...

Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Italian: Il Tuo Vizio è Una Stanza Chiusa e Solo Io ne ho la Chiave...

Massimo Dallamano’s modest thriller A Black Veil for Lisa (Italian: La morte non ha sesso, 1968) was made right on the cusp of giallo’s big

Sergio Martino’s considerable contributions to giallo cinema are often overlooked in favour of the genre’s reigning king, Dario Argento...

Like most genre-centric filmmakers, giallo directors can be broken down into tiers. At the top, you have the innovators – your Mario Bavas,

I’m a little too young to remember exactly how Steve Miner’s House had been advertised during release, but I do have vivid memories of...