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Old 01-25-2007, 03:36 PM
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Sorry. I'm not at all familiar. Can you elaborate?
Gialli are a series of Italian horror/thrillers made popular by Mario Bava & Dario Argento among others. They all seem to go a little like this:

An unknown killer wearing black gloves is committing gruesome murders. A gun is hardly ever used and knives or other sharp items seem to be the killer’s preferred methods of murder, unless they’re choking or drowning their victims. The dead are mostly beautiful women who met their terrible ends in European locations, often somewhere in Italy. The killer finally commits suicide or is caught alive, but dies an accidental death at the hands of one of their intended victims... or an amateur sleuth who gets very little help from the local police catches them.

Films like this are
Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Opera etc.
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