Signori In Giallo Podcasts

There are terrible crimes being committed in an ancient castle - and that's just the Scottish accents. Dave and Jon tackle Antonio Margheriti's Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye/La morte negli occhi del gatto from 1973. CW: Gendered violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our …

Who is the mysterious masked figure terrorizing TV's Michael Brandon? And what is the strange connection between Dario Argento and Thomas the Tank Engine? All will be revealed as Dave and Jon tackle 1971's Four Flies on Grey Velvet/4 mosche di velluto grigio. CW: Gendered violence, mental illness, homophobic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ characters. Copyri…

Due signori season three is here. Jon and Dave are lost in space in Luigi Bazzoni's baffling, beautiful Footprints on the Moon/Le orme (1975). CW: Mental illness, gaslighting, Klaus Kinski Copyright © 2023 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Co…

Season two comes to a bloody climax with one of the quintessential gialli, which bizarrely was made by a Hollywood director in the USA. Jon and Dave spend a New York minute delving into Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980). CW: Gendered and sexualised violence, victimisation of sex work, problematic and invalid depictions of trans characters Cop…

A rather tangiential festive episode as Jon and Dave discover the rain in Spain falls mainly on the deranged, with Jean Seberg and Marisol competing to have it away in a manger with Barry Stokes, in J.A. Bardem's 1973 film The Corruption of Chris(tmas?) Miller/La corrupción de Chris Miller. CW: Sexual violence, rape, gendered violence, PTSD, the ki…

Graphic violence, illicit liasons and chunky knitwear all feature prominently in this episode's film. Jon and Dave ponder who is killing the girls at an exclusive Catholic school in Massimo Dallamano's 1972 thriller What Have You Done to Solange?/Cosa avete fatto a Solange? CW: Gendered violence, rape, abortion, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 Dav…

Two beautiful giallo queens, a faded Hollywood star, a remote Venetian island and a heavy sigh from Jon. It's Silvio Amadio's Amuck!/Alla ricerca del piacere, literally 'In Pursuit of Pleasure,' from 1972. Did we find any? Listen and see. CW: Gendered violence, rape. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu…

Jon and Dave venture back to the days when London's Covent Garden had several actual apple stores instead of an Apple Store, in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 return to form Frenzy. Lovely! CW: Gendered violence, rape, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (…

Dungeons, thigh boots, heroic serial killers and plot holes you could fit several pairs of tits through? Jon and Dave come up against Emilio P. Miraglia's 1971 trashfest The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave/La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba. CW: Gendered violence, rape, sex work, animal cruelty, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas an…

How did we manage to do twenty of these things?? For their 20th discussion, Jon and Dave delve into the dark delights of Aldo Lado's 1971 classic Short Night of Glass Dolls/La corta notte delle bambole di vetro. CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, lucid surgery. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.…

Dave and Jon talk Hitchcock influence, movie strip clubs, and somewhat bizarrely the TV career of Emily Booth as they break down Lucio Fulci's swinging '69 giallo Perversion Story/One on Top of The Other/Una sull'altra. CW: Gendered violence, gaslighting, the death penalty, exhumation. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc…

A welcome return to familiar territory (and Carroll Baker) for Dave and Jon with Umberto Lenzi's not-at-all-awkwardly-named Orgasmo (1969), also known as Paranoia. Not to be confused with Lenzi/Baker's other giallo called Paranoia. Sigh... CW: Gendered violence, alcoholism, implied incest. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on …

Is Alfred Vohrer's 1967 murder mystery caper The College Girl Murders/Der Mönch mit der Peitsche the missing link between German krimi films and Italian gialli? Or is Dave an idiot? Jon has strong feelings on both. CW: Gendered violence, sexual assault, the Holocaust. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Bl…

This time, Jon and Dave take a sidestep into Proper Film™ as we attempt to ascertain if a movie that influenced a lot of gialli, Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary Blowup (1966), is itself a giallo. Also, whether anything happens in the movie. CW: Homophobic language, sexual assault. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc a…

It's season 2 of Due signori in giallo! We're back to (almost) the beginning with the Italian gothic/giallo hybrid The Murder Clinic, a.k.a. La lama nel corpo (1966), directed by Lionello De Felice and Elio Scardamaglia. CW: Gendered violence, mental illness. Copyright © 2022 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com…

With a Christmas special to record and no festive giallo to be found, Jon and Dave turn instead to Canada (the Italy of North America) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). CW: Gendered violence, abortion, rape. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Giallo Reading List La Dolce Morte: Vernacula…

Dave and Jon close out season one with Michele Soavi's 1987 giallo/slasher hybrid Stage Fright, a.k.a. Deliria. CW: Gendered violence, problematic gender stereotypes. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.…

Dave and Jon find that being set in Australia isn't the only atypical thing about Flavio Mogherini's downbeat 1978 film The Pyjama Girl Case/La ragazza dal pigiama giallo. CW: Gendered violence, miscarriage, spousal abuse. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark …

Bonus mini-episode/shameless filer: actors find work in some strange projects, much to the amusement of Jon and I.. CW: Gendered violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download/Stream Music promoted by…

Dave and Jon finally arrive at maybe the greatest of all gialli, Dario Argento's 1975 masterwork Deep Red/Profondo rosso. CW: Gendered violence, childhood trauma, gender stereotypes, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu C…

Dave and Jon are lost in an oddly Gallic version of Spain in Carlos Aured and Paul Naschy's 1974 giallo Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll/Los Ojos Azules de la Muñeca Rota. CW: Gendered violence, rape, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com Our theme music: Silent Night (Dark Piano Vers…

Inspector Dave and District Attorney Jon investigate a dark and disturbing sex crime ring in Massimo Dallamano's What Have They Done to Your Daughters?/La polizia chiede aiuto (1974). CW: Child sexual abuse, sexualised violence, coercion, rape. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More informati…

Dave and Jon wonder what's real and what isn't in Francesco Barilli's The Perfume of the Lady in Black/Il profumo della signora in nero (1974). CW: Childhood trauma, mental illness, rape, racial stereotyping, gaslighting, suicide. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: La Dolce M…

Dave and Jon find the countryside less than relaxing in Lucio Fulci's magnificent 1972 rural giallo Don't Torture a Duckling/Non si sevizia un paperino. CW: Gendered violence, child killing, underage sex, drug use, mental illness. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: Beyond Ter…

Dave and Jon have their first encounter with giallo queen Edwige Fenech in Sergio Martino's 1972 classic All the Colors of the Dark/Tutti i colori del buio. CW: rape, gendered violence, sexualised violence, animal cruelty, gaslighting. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: All t…

The giallo comes alive in Dario Argento's legendary 1970 film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage/L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo. CW: gendered violence, sexualised violence, animal cruelty. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by …

Pop art explodes in an orgy of gaslighting, funkadelic disco sounds and unfortunate body suits in Romolo Guerrieri's 1968 treat The Sweet Body of Deborah/Il dolce corpo di Deborah. CW: gendered violence, suicide, gaslighting. Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com (the various German blu-ray relea…

Darkness rolls in to engulf Jon Dear and Dave Thomas as they examine Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini's 1965 arthouse thriller The Possessed/La donna del lago. CW: gendered violence, unwanted pregnancy, suicide Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information: So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 …

In their sophomore outing, Dave Thomas and Jon Dear discuss Mario Bava's classic 1964 body-count masterpiece Blood and Black Lace/6 donne per l'assassino. TW: gendered and sexualised violence Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo…

In the first episode of Due Signori in Giallo, Dave Thomas and Jon Dear discuss Mario Bava's seminal 1963 thriller The Girl Who Knew Too Much/La ragazza che sapeva troppo, a.k.a. The Evil Eye. TW: gendered violence, gaslighting Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com More information So Deadly, So …