Sunday, September 9, 2007
The Italian Giallo Collection coming on DVD
New York Times Review: "A gaggle of the stylish, often bloody Italian horror movies known as giallo will arrive this fall. The pleasure of the genre lies less in the shocks than in the refreshing, disreputable air of Eurodecadence and the often luscious costumes and set designs. The greatest of the giallo filmmakers, Dario Argento, is represented by five releases. The opening attack in one of them, “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage” (1970) — shot in an all-white, glass-fronted modern art gallery standing like an electric cage in the dark Roman night — sets the chic, sleazy tone for what is to follow."