Items Matching Tag 'Giallo'

Four Flies On Grey Velvet (Blu-ray Details)
Going about his everyday life of band rehearsals and socialising with his wife, Nina (Farmer), and their hip friends, rock drummer Roberto Tobias (Brandon) notices he is constantly being followed by a strange man dressed in black. He decides to turn the tables on his stalker and follows him into an abandoned theatre, where a confrontation between the two ends with Roberto accidentally stabbing the...

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh: Shameless Fan Edition (DVD Details)
Sexy worldly Mrs. Wardh (Fenech - STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER) endures a stilling marriage in the hope of repressing her perverse past - a sadomasochistic relationship with the degenerate Jean (Ivan Rassimov). Disillusioned with her unloved existence, she embarks upon a torrid affair with suave playboy George (George Hilton). But happiness may prove short-lived: as Jean reappears, a brutal razor-sla...

Finale (DVD Details)
In the style of Dario Argento, ‘Finale’ is a stylish and surreal horror film with all the hallmarks of a cult classic. It is of low budget and independent origins and has enjoyed much success on the USA festival circuit picking up no less than 5 awards along the way. A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of their oldest son. Though labelled a suicide, the...

Amer (Blu-ray Details)
Recalling the captivating cinematic style, recurring themes and bold visual motifs seen in the works of directors such as Dario Argento, Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci, Cattet and Forzani’s highly original and visionary tribute to the Italian masters is a virtually dialogue-free, Freudian tale of sexual awakening, obsession and murder. The story unfolds in three parts as Ana (played, respectively,...

Deep Red (UK) (DVD Details)
A black gloved killer hacks a psychic to death but there was a witness... Marcus Daly, an English pianist, rushes to the scene but he’s too late to save her. He sets out to solve the murder but at every turn the mysterious slayer strikes, cutting off each line of enquiry with acts of grisly violence, each more shocking than the last! A surreal masterpiece from Dario Argento with a pounding...

Deep Red (Blu-ray Details)
A black gloved killer hacks a psychic to death but there was a witness... Marcus Daly, an English pianist, rushes to the scene but he’s too late to save her. He sets out to solve the murder but at every turn the mysterious slayer strikes, cutting off each line of enquiry with acts of grisly violence, each more shocking than the last! A surreal masterpiece from Dario Argento with a pounding...

The Stendhal Syndrome (DVD Details)
Considered by many to be a remarkable return to vintage form for the Italian master of suspense and terror, Dario Argento (Tenebrae; Suspiria; Terror At The Opera), The Stendhal Syndrome stars the director's real life daughter, Asia Argento (xXx; The Red Siren) as Anna Manni. A young detective in Rome's anti-rape unit. Anna suffers from Stendhal Syndrome, a mental condition that causes her to...

Terror at the Opera (DVD Details)
Spanish actress Cristina Marsillach stars as Betty, a young and inexperienced opera singer who gets at a chance at her big break starring in a production of Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’ when the lead is forced to pull out following a road accident. Despite her belief that the production is cursed, Betty accepts the role and receives universal acclaim for her performance. Unfortunately, her star turn also...

Sleepless: Masters of Giallo (DVD Details)
In Dario Argento's SLEEPLESS insomniac detective Moretti (Max von Sydow) is called upon to investigate a series of murders which bear a remarkable resemblance to those committed 17 years earlier and attributed to a killer nicknamed "The Dwarf". Is the new spate of crimes being committed by the same culprit or a copycat killer? Aided by Giacomo, the son of one of the original murderer's victims,...

Torso (DVD Details)
From Sergio Martino, director of the stylish All The Colors of the Dark and the truly disturbing Mountain of the Cannibal God, comes this fine gem of a slasher giallo that sits well up there with the best from Bava and Argento. Delicious students, who we can only assume are studying for a masters degree in stripping, head off for a vacation to a location remote enough to ensure undisturbed...

Watch Me When I Kill!: Shameless Fan Edition (DVD Details)
Just as some of some of Brian De Palma's more entertaining films have been tributes to Hitchcock's finest, so director Anthony Bido (The Bloodstained Shadow) pulls off a homage to the early giallos of Dario Argento with Watch Me When I Kill (Il Gatto dagli occhi di giada, also known as The Cat's Victims) that's also known as The Cat's Victims. When Mara (Paolo Tedesco) stops by at the chemist...

Oasis of Fear AKA Dirty Pictures (DVD Details)
Also known as 'Dirty Pictures', this fabulously trippy sexploitation thriller from Umberto Lenzi (Paranoia, Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City) is a lost classic long unavailable to fans of classic kinky flicks. Two young sexually free hippies, Dick (Ray Lovelock) and Ingrid (Ornella Muti) finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the...

The Designated Victim: Shameless Fan Edition (DVD Details)
A true high point in 70s Italian thriller cinema, this inspired remake of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train from director Maurizio Lucidi is able to push the concept of the original movie into something far more unbearably tense and deliciously twisted. Stefano (Tomas Milian; Traffic, Amistad, JFK) needs to sort out his troublesome wife who is seriously cramping his future plans. A chance...

Strip Nude For Your Killer (DVD Details)
Disappointed by films that just don't live up to their promise? Well baby this one does what it says on the box so strap yourself in for sleazy, nudity-filled gore a go-go giallo fun! The death of a fashion model leads to a revenge-driven trail of death that soon has the modelling agency she worked for in a frenzy of panic as the clothes get slashed and the sluts get slayed. In the middle of...

Who Saw Her Die? (DVD Details)
The mists that wreathe the eerie city of Venice become the hunting ground for a faceless child killer that seemingly cannot be stopped in the taut and brilliant thriller, Who Saw Her Die? directed by Aldo Lado (Night Train Murders). When Franco (in a career-best performance by George Lazenby) loses his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer he sets off on an unnerving journey of retribution...

What Have They Done To Your Daughters? (DVD Details)
The naked body of schoolgirl leads the police to a teenage prostitution ring as vice & corruption explode onto the Italian streets in a blaze of machete-wielding fury. When suspects in the case are killed by a mysterious stranger clad in motorbike leathers, the police realise that the trail of corruption goes all the way to the top, and set their sights on busting the case wide open. But as...

The Frightened Woman (DVD Details)
Witness the ultimate subjugation of a woman to serve the most twisted desires of man in the achingly hip ‘n’ horny Femina Ridens, where the kinkiest urges are played to a deadly conclusion… The beautifully sensuous Dagmar Lassander stars as Maria, the living sex toy of Dr Sayer (Philippe Leroy) who delights in killing women at the point of orgasm. Sayer’s prolonged campaign of degradation...

My Dear Killer (DVD Details)
If you're wondering how to better use your power tools and plant machinery then the gloriously gruesome My Dear Killer is a stylish horror thriller that's better than any product demonstration video! When you want to guarantee death only a bulldozer will do as Police Inspector Peretti (George Hilton) discovers when he investigates a headless body that's recently lost a fight with a digger. As...

Ratman (DVD Details)
A forgotten classic and never before released in the UK, the uber-trashy Ratman is a guilty horror pleasure of gory delights proudly brought back into your hands by Shameless Screen Entertainment to cherish forever. Pint-sized cult hero Nelson De La Rosa stars as the horrific genetic mutation that is Ratman! Created to win a Nobel prize; the only awards he’ll be picking up will be for slaying...