Quentin Tarantino interview - American Giallo discussion - Video Archives Podcast

[@Jaykilljoy-tt9tt]

I'm a big big giallo fan. As for "American giallo" I would list Alice sweet Alice, Blow out, White of the eye, Out of the dark, Madhouse, and even Dead girls from the 90's. I've always loved Dead girls from the first time I saw it. Then when it got an official release 2, 3 years ago the creators were like "We were inspired by giallo movies." Which explains a lot, because I could definitely see the influence of giallo in a late 80's, early 90's American slasher movie. Happy birthday to me is Canadian. Personally, I aint a fan of German Krimi films. They are way too...of their time. Far too "60's batman" for my tastes. I have to mention The spiral staircase. Spiral staircase is from 1946 and is very similar to a Krimi, giallo, or slasher movie. First off, there is a scene of the killer walking through the rain, up to the big mansion and he's dressed in all black, and looks very similar to a typical giallo killer. He also wears black gloves. Spiral staircase is also apparently the first of it's kind to use the POV. The film is fairly similar to the krimi The indian scarf from 1963. Both films being about a black gloved killer in a "big dark house" during the night and both are murder mysteries. As for "Does Coma qualify?" If it does, then so does Looker from 1981, so does Halloween 3: Season of the witch from 1982. So does Blue sunshine from 1977. I do like some of the Spanish giallo movies and Asian giallo movies. They made some really good giallo movies. Oh and Eyeball is one of my comfort giallo movies. Love it. Have not seen Dressed to kill, yet. Planning to next year.

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

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[@garrettpeck4437]

I would consider William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film Cruising to be an American Giallo.

[@adamant5550]

Without question

[@WildFungus]

I wouldnt have ever thought of it that way until I listened to them define the genre, you're absolutely right.

[@Sdea1903]

good shout

[@WildFungus]

I really loved 'The Editor' canadian giallo

[@landofthesilverpath5823]

I maintain that Giallo is the ultimate cinematic genre!

[@mofolee]

The dubbing had nothing to do with Mussolini - genre movies were made without synched sound for reasons of speed and cost, and it allowed the producers to hire international models or actors (like Christopher Lee) at short notice without a common language.

[@brentulstad3275]

On listening to this again a second time I'm in total agreement with QTs point on Polanski's Repulsion being the next evolution on how to do an updated next level of Hitchcock psychological horror/thriller, or to be exact Depalma's observation on that. I felt the same exhilarating feeling of discovery and refreshing energy when I first saw Repulsion and it kickstarted my interest in watching more of Polanski's other lesser discussed works. Cul-de-sac for whatever reason really fascinates me though I'm sure it's not gonna satisfy everyone with it's seemingly loose & unfocused plot, but unique setting, tone & pacing really propels you through the oddly unique absurdity.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Incredible that Quentin remembers German actor and comedian Eddi Arendt, however the plural word for giallo is gialli not giallos and Dressed to Kill is 'Scope/Panavision not 1.85:1.

[@WildFungus]

I wanted to watch Dressed to Kill until I read the synopsis, they confirm for me like the plot synopsis really gives the twist away.

[@bigbadlust4403]

Plural in Italian. They're speaking English. When you oreder more than one pizza, do you say pizze or pizzas?

[@WildFungus]

pitsaz accurately. @@bigbadlust4403

[@WildFungus]

pizzazz if you're going old latin.

[@Stringwar]

​@@WildFungus it's still very much worth watching. Sometimes the journey is as good as the destination.

[@juniorjames7076]

In the early '90s my local Blockbuster Video (and other video stores) had great "discount" aisles of old Euro trash films from the 60s-mid 80s. I did not know at the time many of them were Giallo, but since I was too young to go the X-Rated section, I knew these were the only movies I could get with high chance of frontal nudity and gore- which is what I wanted! (Some of them were not even dubbed or have subtitles!) I got exposed to a lot of strange, poorly dubbed, bizarre films from Italy, France, and Greece (Black Aphrodite- Greek Blacksploitation! never forgot that one!). I wasn't even interested in renting new releases when I discovered these "gold mines" of cinema!

[@brad7932]

Was Mick Dundee the man Bobbi tried to pick, up in the novelisation?

[@davidlevy4291]

Could Santa Sangre be considered another pharaphrased remake of Psycho?

[@BrettLee0]

Check out Uncle Acids new album Ora Blu. Its an ode to Italian Giallo and others movies. Very cool.

[@vicaldama9314]

Bye bye Eli

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Tarantino is fun to listen to but it's like a group of pimply undergrad boys reading everything into nothing. "Repulsion" wasn't the "start" of anything. Hitchcock's early British movies featured rape scenes and murders well beyond that. The pre-code horror drama "Freaks" makes De Palma look like Coppola. Frankly, watch the video of the original "Scarface" set to the theme from De Palma's version and De Palma is embarrassingly shot-for-shot stealing. Film has always been lurid and pagan, it doesn't "push" anything, it merely reflects what's going on around it, ergo the cinema of Weimar is wide open because Berlin then is wide open - sex, drugs, monocles, and monkeys. Camille Paglia has a great part in "Sexual Personae" where she says all the disaster flicks of the 70s are in fact a "crypto-religious self-haunting" as a way to sublimate the self to the realities of violent nature in a world of post-60s all loving therapies and hippie nature worship.