Talk:Giallo

message: I notice it mentions one film that was based on Poe.  I know Poe had a good deal of influence on detective stories in general, but was there a special Poe influence on these films? Jztinfinity 16:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: simply that both poe and giallo feature strong psychological themes of madness, alienation, and paranoia.Zzzzz 09:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Poe influence

message: Can we discuss other social issues like the whole misogynistic parts of the movie (see oneself as a killer stabbing knives into vaginas in "what have you done to solange," for instance?) i think this would fit with characteristics
:only if there is a reliable secondary source that discusses it. Zzzzz 10:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of giallos have strong female characters or killers who are women.  But yeah, Zzzzz has it right. Шизомби 15:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feminist issues 

message: What criteria are being used to determine notability? Шизомби 15:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, Black Sabbath and Black Sunday are not giallos.  I agree Suspiria is not one either, being a supernatural film about witches, though it has elements of the giallo.  Stage Fright could be considered one, though it's perhaps better described simply as a slasher (Michele Soavi's one anyway).  But again, what crtieria are being used to determine notability? Шизомби (talk) 13:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I disagree with you on at least some of those.  My giallo reference is in storage at the moment though, when I can get to it, I'll elaborate. Шизомби (talk) 03:18, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I also disagree. Some gialli may also be slasher films for example, but they remain gialli. Let's take New York Ripper for example. Above all, it certainly isn't a horror movie. Then it's about an anonymous killer stabbing women in a city, and about a policeman investigating the murders. Plus gore and sex. Made by an Italian director with giallo roots. Thus, I'd call New York Ripper a giallo, although a quite late example of a genre that had it's peak between 1970 and 1975. The setting in a foreign city is not untypical. Sergio Martino's Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh for example is set in Vienna, Austria. Other cities who served as locations for gialli were London or Athens. --Catgut (talk) 10:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable giallo films 

message: The focus in this article is on Italian productions, and rightly so.  But Turkey released a number of contemporaneous, and sometimes copy-cat, giallos.  If there is a general consensus that they should be mentioned, I can cobble together a paragraph or so to outline them. Monkey Bounce 07:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be interesting. Шизомби (talk) 13:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkish giallos 

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message: Maximilianklein (talk) 23:41, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: WorldCat Genres

message: Wouldn't Nicholas Roeg's 1973 movie be considered an upscale giallo-type thriller???  It is primarily set in Venice.User:JCHeverly 16:04, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not down to us to say that a film is or isn't part of a genre; but if a reliable site like Allrovi or the BFI were to class it as such then sure, add away. GRAPPLE X 18:26, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't Look Now??? Comment 

message: Actually in italy "giallo" is simply the term for murder mystery novels, with no particular correlation with horror, classic english whodunits sherlock holmes style being the stereotype. It is true that italian murder mystery novels often have horror elements or are otherwise very gory, which I guess must have given this perception overseas. The term comes from the the publication -initially monthly and later bi-weekly- "Il Giallo Mondadori" that had a yellow cover, to distinguish it fromordinary, mainstream books of the same publishing house, and initially only published classic english whudunits -most of agatha christie was published in early numbers, for example - later it started to accept more and more italian novels of the same genre - murder mystery - that were often gory and sometimes had horror or supernatural elements.
"giallo", in Italy, is just the common, italian name for murder mystery novels, it doesn't indicate a separate "italian" genre, classic english murder mystery novels are considered "gialli", although I understand that for english-speaking countries it instead indicates 20th century italian-style murder mysteries.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.202.107.20 (talk) 11:32, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian Connotation 

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message: I've removed a film by Piero Regnoli from the list. The source next to it said nothing about it being part of the genre (specifically just "Ti Aspettero all'Inferno (1960, Verdstella Film). One of the first dramatic films with thriller elements, it helped pave the way for the Italian horror movie.""). Not exactly winning evidence. Andrzejbanas (talk) 18:17, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not add films that happen to be Italian that are just referred to as thrillers or even "dramatic films with thriller elements"| that's barely enough to qualify them a thriller let alone a giallo. I state this following WP:STICKTOSOURCE. Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:51, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed film from list