Posts Tagged ‘Giallo’
Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan is an obscure 1960 giallo directed by comedy specialist Giorgio Bianchi. A spin off from a popular television series of the time, Tenente Sheridan, which also starred Ubaldo Lay, it’s of some historical interest for being one of the earliest Italian feature films to have been spawned from the then-novel TV medium.
There’s an interesting article in Nocturno about a new TV movie that has just been shown on Canale 5. It’s Negli occhi dell’assassino, a giallo, directed by Eduardo Margheriti, son of the great Antonio, who made Black Cobra 3 nearly two decades ago now…
During the mid 1980s, there was a slight upturn in the fortunes of the giallo. Italian thrillers had been out of fashion since the mid 1970s; the occasional enterprising filmmaker would turn their hand to one, but even Dario Argento was temporarily preoccupied with his supernatural horror films. With, however, the increasing desire from TV [...]