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1 day ago · Review: Sergio Martino’s 1973 Giallo ‘Torso’ on Arrow Video Limited Edition 4K UHD. Torso is a top-shelf giallo that also clearly paved the way for the rise of the slasher film. Sergio Martino’s Torso may not achieve the sustained delirium of Mario Bava and Dario Argento’s best work, but it’s still a top-shelf giallo.
4 days ago · Torso (Limited Edition) (Arrow Video – AV589) Torso (I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale), a 1973 Italian giallo directed by Sergio Martino, is one of the films that most influenced the slasher horror genre that would emerge later in the decade and the 1980s. Bearing many of the signatures of the giallo genre, like a mysterious ...
1 day ago · Piper Laurie, in a small role for the actress, is great as Aura’s mom and psychic. Frederic Forrest is a pervy psychologist and part time red herring, James Russo as a police captain ...
2 days ago · Both “The Grudge” and “Ju-On” spawned franchises, though Shimizu only directed the first remake. “The Grudge” is streaming on Peacock and “Ju-On: The Grudge” is on the Roku Channel ...
4 days ago · Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) dir. Lucio Fulci. Streaming on Criterion. Criterion Channel is showing an excellent selection of classic giallo--lurid and flashy Italian exploitation flicks--including Lucio Fulci’s great Don’t Torture a Duckling.
1 day ago · For many people, Muriel Spark is the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a darkly subversive take on the rites-of-passage novel and a significant success when published in 1961, though the power of the novel has since been diluted by adaptations to film, television, and stage. 1 This is a shame, because behind the genteel façade and literary plaudits, Spark was one of the most inventive ...
1 day ago · Bong Joon-ho’s The Host works on multiple levels (read my review). As a monster movie, it’s filled with thrills as a horrific creature threatens the people living alongside South Korea’s Han River. But it also works as a political satire, making pointed critiques of South Korean politics and society as well as the American military.
