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,

What Have You Done to Solange? (Italian: Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?; aka: Who Killed Solange?, Who's Next?, Terror in the Woods, The School

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...

Robert Kurtzman’s Wishmaster is less of a movie and more of what you get when a group of ‘80s and ‘90s horror movie icons pull their resourc

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.... Genre Grinder is back and focusing on actual genres, following the three part

One last look at a couple of Italian thrillers and US exploitation movies you can find on YouTube...