July 8, 2017 The Sweet Body of Deborah In many ways The Sweet Body of Deborah can be seen as an archetypal pre-Argento giallo. The motivating factors are greed, lust and hatred rather than pseudo-psychological disturbance.
March 13, 2016 Elio Petri: We Still Kill the Old Way After all the high-concept exuberance of The Tenth Victim, We Still Kill the Old Way saw Petri move from sci-fi to the crime genre and, stylistically, marked a return to a more subtle, low-key approach.
November 5, 2010 The Iguana with a Tongue of Fire When the body of a violently murdered young woman is found in the boot of a car belonging to the Swiss Ambassador to Ireland, there’s no shortage of suspects. The Ambassador, Sobiesky (Anton Diffring), is a cold fish with an extremely complicated private life; his wife (Valentina Cortese) is a lush…
