Director wouldn't know a giallo if it flew up his bum

His previous film, Katalin Varga is pretty good. I didn't care much for this one.

It's not meant to be a giallo, the giallo movie he's working on is never seen (apart from the credits) and is just a device to highlight the horror of the images that our hero is unprepared for.

If anything, this is a tribute to foley and sound engineers.

I'm sure everyone reading your post is prostrating themselves in awe at your knowledge of giallo. You can give yourself a self-congratulatory wank now. Nobody will think you're an obnoxious internet twat or anything.

Strickland knows giallo without it invading any of his body spaces.

But for those that do it will be a once watch ... There's nothing here to come back to

Fatima had a fetish for a wiggle in her scoot

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While I adore the genre, I actually admire the director for trying something different. It's such a great premise as it is, but it would have been so easy for it to just be a slavish homage with a predictable tacked on ending.

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The Equestrian Vortex, Santini film that is being made isn't clearly your run of the mill early seventies giallo. If we want to geek out on giallo (a genre that I truly love and adore), we could pinpoint this film to something like 76' or 77' after Deep Red. It is in a nutshell Suspiria directed by Lucio Fulci. But there is still a black leather glove that works as a tape op in the studio. It isn't wielding razor but rather Revox reel tape machine. This is important because in the end the film is cutting the psyche of our poor old englishman like that barber's cutlery.

Also it is worth mentioning that even though most gialli films had certain "rules" that made them giallo, in a similar vein as spaghetti westerns, there were quite a lot leeway. Some of them were pretty close to basic krimi (or is that polizia, well you know, the crime stuff), some of them were pretty gothic.

But I agree with OP that Equestrian Vortex isn't classic giallo by Martino, Lenzi, Bava or Ercoli. It clearly is a film by the lovechild of Argento and Fulci. And made in late seventies... it actually has quite a lot of similarities with those overcooked 80s italian horror films by Fulci, Lamberto Bava and the rest. My wild quess is that these are the first contact of italian horror to the director.

This film never meant to be a pastiche, it just paid hommage to one of the great genres of the past, but the film itself was something completely different. It also had at least as much to do with the studio technology and recording culture of the past. Mostly it was a mystery film in a good traditional sense. I really liked it, and after seeing it second time, I still do :)

A film where protagonist makes magic on wem watkins copicat and every female actress is bona fide giallo girl always has a soft spot in my heart. It almost made me want to buy AKG d190 even though I know it isn't spectacular mic.

Amer on the other hand was total garbage. Hommage my ass! It only had one decent idea and that was the big "twist". The way they ripped off soundtrack like worst Tarantino wannabes made me wanna rip my hair (or what's left of it). Hell, even Aronofsky's Black Swan was better "giallo" than that.

BTW the sound design and soundtrack was really amazing in Berberian Sound Studio, and it really was very giallo in a good way! After all, soundtracks are the greatest thing in those films.


"Very well, then. I shall say no more. Just... tinkerty-tonk!"

I don't think this film ever suggested that it would fit into the lineage any other Italian Horror film. You clearly went into it with the wrong expectation and then couldn't let go of that.

For me, I wanted to watch it again as soon as it ended.