Suspiria

[tom smud]

i think giallos are a beautifully unique form of movie making

i wouldnt like to call it a "sub-genre"

it would be like calling "rock and roll" a sub-genre of "blues ","skiffle",and"country"

by the way ,we seemed to have kept the "rock"element ...wat happened to "roll" music ?

[tom smud]

Originally Posted by swiss tony

yeah they are murder mysteries albeit extremely violent murder mysteries. i know a lot of you already know this but for those that don't; the popular italian best selling murder mystery novels of the 50's and 60's (i think) were predominantly published with yellow covers. the subsequent fad for italian directors to make movies in the style of these books needed a name. hence, the italian word for yellow was employed. so, by definition a giallo can only be murder mystery. just cause argento, for example, makes a movie, doesn't mean it has to fall into that category, it could be horror. basically, if the movie flows like ruth rendell but with extremely violent murders its giallo. horror and giallo are mutually exclusive. IMO. almost forgot, suspiria is a horror, tenebrae isn't

just take this as a bit of flippant rhetoric............................but.....get a 70 year old ruth rendall lovin' granny...stick her in front of tenebrae and tell me she wouldnt be HORRORFIED !

[alkytrio666]

Originally Posted by tom smud

i think giallos are a beautifully unique form of movie making

i wouldnt like to call it a "sub-genre"

it would be like calling "rock and roll" a sub-genre of "blues ","skiffle",and"country"

by the way ,we seemed to have kept the "rock"element ...wat happened to "roll" music ?

It's actually not like that at all. Horror is a genre that has lasted over 100 years, branching all sorts of different subgenres, like crime horror (Silence of the Lambs), slasher horror (Halloween), etc.

Giallo predominantly lasted for about 15 years, and was spawned off of the mystery genre and the horror genre. How can you call that a genre? It fits perfectly into the category of "subgenre".

[tom smud]

good point !

[swiss tony]

Originally Posted by tom smud

just take this as a bit of flippant rhetoric............................but.....get a 70 year old ruth rendall lovin' granny...stick her in front of tenebrae and tell me she wouldnt be HORRORFIED !

nice! that is one social experiment i'd pay to see :)

[tom smud]

Originally Posted by swiss tony

nice! that is one social experiment i'd pay to see :)

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lol lol lol