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      • In the English-speaking world, Italian giallo films are also sometimes referred to as spaghetti thrillers or spaghetti slashers, in a similar manner to how Italian Western films and poliziotteschi films from the same period have been referred to as spaghetti Westerns and spaghetti crime films, respectively.
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    In Italian cinema, giallo (Italian:; pl.: gialli; from giallo, lit. ' yellow ' ) is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher , thriller , psychological horror , psychological thriller , sexploitation , and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.

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  3. Oct 24, 2021 · We’ll get started with a definition, then take a look at the roots of the genre, examine what the hallmarks of a Giallo film are, and finally, we’ll wrap things up with some recommendations for Giallo movies to check out.

  4. Jun 26, 2024 · “Giallo” translates to “yellow” in Italian, but it means far more in the context of cinema. Inspired by the pulpy crime novels with yellow covers of the late 1920s, giallo films merge the crime...

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  5. Feb 9, 2024 · A giallo film is often credited to 20th-century Italian murder-mystery films which contain elements of both horror and thriller regardless of their national origin.

  6. Oct 18, 2021 · “Giallo” literally means “yellow,” in reference to the yellow covers common to the sensationalistic Italian pulp novels these movies clearly resemble. But giallo was never an organized movement,...

  7. Giallo films are generally characterized as gruesome murder-mystery thrillers that combine the suspense elements of a Hitchcock film with scenes of shocking horror featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camerawork, and often jarring musical arrangements.

  8. Apr 2, 2020 · With James Wan's upcoming giallo film, Malignant, and Luca Guadagnino's remake of Dario Argento's classic, Suspiria, modern horror fans have been discussing the history of Italian horror much more prominently in recent years.

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