Once banished to the ‘video nasty’ lists, the formerly trashy subgenre – spearheaded by Dario Argento – is now seen as high art, dulling its rougher edges
Giallo began as the trashiest of genres. Derived from pulp Italian novels (with yellow covers, hence the name), it was distinguished by, among other things, serial killers, lurid violence and copious female nudity. Half a century later, though, giallo has pretty much become respectable cinema. High art, even.
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