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Umberto Lenzi + Carroll Baker = Love
Orgasmo (1969) // So Sweet…So Perverse (1969) // A Quiet Place to Kill (1970) // Knife of Ice (1972)
#Giallo #UmbertoLenzi #CarrollBaker #MyQueen #filmsky
Orgasmo (1969) // So Sweet…So Perverse (1969) // A Quiet Place to Kill (1970) // Knife of Ice (1972)
#Giallo #UmbertoLenzi #CarrollBaker #MyQueen #filmsky
Franco's slyly ironic The Most Dangerous Game variant LA COMTESSE PERVERSE (1973) has an undeniable breezy kineticism, squeezing erotically drenched dread out of every frame while giving low rent sleaze an ultra-modern overhaul in Xanadú's mind melting atmos. #FrancoFebruary
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Franco's slyly ironic The Most Dangerous Game variant LA COMTESSE PERVERSE (1973) has an undeniable breezy kineticism, squeezing erotically drenched dread out of every frame while giving low rent sleaze an ultra-modern overhaul in Xanadú's mind melting atmos. #FrancoFebruary
While LORNA THE EXORCIST (1974) invites comparison to Rosemary’s Baby—in both cases a woman’s womb is mortgaged by her spouse for his lucrative solvency—Franco’s heretical symphony rejects this gendered economy, climaxing in a bloody reclamation of bartered autonomy. #FrancoFebruary
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
While LORNA THE EXORCIST (1974) invites comparison to Rosemary’s Baby—in both cases a woman’s womb is mortgaged by her spouse for his lucrative solvency—Franco’s heretical symphony rejects this gendered economy, climaxing in a bloody reclamation of bartered autonomy. #FrancoFebruary
Radiating from a Robert de Nesle nucleus of avaricious intent & more abused upon release than the tortured nuns of its environs, Franco's popedelic witchfinder-ploitation LES DEMONS (1973) is a fascinatingly odd potage of his own Bloody Judge with The Devils & a dash of de Sade. #FrancoFebruary
February 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Radiating from a Robert de Nesle nucleus of avaricious intent & more abused upon release than the tortured nuns of its environs, Franco's popedelic witchfinder-ploitation LES DEMONS (1973) is a fascinatingly odd potage of his own Bloody Judge with The Devils & a dash of de Sade. #FrancoFebruary
With the baleful poésie of a gothic ode, Franco’s temporal vacuum A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD (1973) exemplifies the beguiling pull not of carnal vitality but of depression, a dark destiny innocently accepted as symbolic submersion in an ecosystem of shadows. #FrancoFriday
February 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
With the baleful poésie of a gothic ode, Franco’s temporal vacuum A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD (1973) exemplifies the beguiling pull not of carnal vitality but of depression, a dark destiny innocently accepted as symbolic submersion in an ecosystem of shadows. #FrancoFriday
Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), Jesus Franco
#sidebyside #Noir #FrancoFebruary
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), Jesus Franco
#sidebyside #Noir #FrancoFebruary
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), Jesus Franco
#sidebyside #Noir #FrancoFebruary
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), Jesus Franco
#sidebyside #Noir #FrancoFebruary
Exigent triathlon through Dante’s Disco Inferno JE BRÛLE DE PARTOUT (1978) should be considered a horror film, its druggy free jazz optics of uncontrollable tumescent agony capped by Francoverse stock dick Pereira showing up to remind viewers what bad people we are. #FrancoFebruary
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Exigent triathlon through Dante’s Disco Inferno JE BRÛLE DE PARTOUT (1978) should be considered a horror film, its druggy free jazz optics of uncontrollable tumescent agony capped by Francoverse stock dick Pereira showing up to remind viewers what bad people we are. #FrancoFebruary
Jess Franco & comic Quixote PI Marlboro welcome you to Shit City, the fictitious locale of parody pastiche LOS BLUES DE LA CALLE POP (1982)—a charming Godardian brigante of the 80's Manacoa Films period combining classic Bogart noir & Diabolik cheek with Walter Hill. #FrancoFebruary
February 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Jess Franco & comic Quixote PI Marlboro welcome you to Shit City, the fictitious locale of parody pastiche LOS BLUES DE LA CALLE POP (1982)—a charming Godardian brigante of the 80's Manacoa Films period combining classic Bogart noir & Diabolik cheek with Walter Hill. #FrancoFebruary
#JanuaryGiallo Day 31
MURDER OBSESSION (1981) Riccardo Freda
Containing the skeletal remains of the same Piccioni fumetto that inspired Deep Red, Freda's esoteric farewell to horror is an operatically crude mixture of overheated gothic desire & grindhouse gore with gloriously off-the-wall pacing.
MURDER OBSESSION (1981) Riccardo Freda
Containing the skeletal remains of the same Piccioni fumetto that inspired Deep Red, Freda's esoteric farewell to horror is an operatically crude mixture of overheated gothic desire & grindhouse gore with gloriously off-the-wall pacing.
January 31, 2026 at 6:05 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 31
MURDER OBSESSION (1981) Riccardo Freda
Containing the skeletal remains of the same Piccioni fumetto that inspired Deep Red, Freda's esoteric farewell to horror is an operatically crude mixture of overheated gothic desire & grindhouse gore with gloriously off-the-wall pacing.
MURDER OBSESSION (1981) Riccardo Freda
Containing the skeletal remains of the same Piccioni fumetto that inspired Deep Red, Freda's esoteric farewell to horror is an operatically crude mixture of overheated gothic desire & grindhouse gore with gloriously off-the-wall pacing.
The power situation in Nashville has proven to be variable & unfortunately Snowmageddon will hamper my ability to finish a giallo-thon. Upside: most of the films I have on rando USB that I can play (wireless iPad charger for the win) are by a certain hero I give mucho amor every February. 😉 #winwin
January 28, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The power situation in Nashville has proven to be variable & unfortunately Snowmageddon will hamper my ability to finish a giallo-thon. Upside: most of the films I have on rando USB that I can play (wireless iPad charger for the win) are by a certain hero I give mucho amor every February. 😉 #winwin
#JanuaryGiallo Day 27
5 DONNE PER L'ASSASSINO (1974) Stelvio Massi
A widowered author aka tv's Paul Temple must clear his name in a spate of expectant mother slayings in this prescient genital nightmare giallo ripping up joy trails years before the concept developed a New York state of mind.
5 DONNE PER L'ASSASSINO (1974) Stelvio Massi
A widowered author aka tv's Paul Temple must clear his name in a spate of expectant mother slayings in this prescient genital nightmare giallo ripping up joy trails years before the concept developed a New York state of mind.
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 27
5 DONNE PER L'ASSASSINO (1974) Stelvio Massi
A widowered author aka tv's Paul Temple must clear his name in a spate of expectant mother slayings in this prescient genital nightmare giallo ripping up joy trails years before the concept developed a New York state of mind.
5 DONNE PER L'ASSASSINO (1974) Stelvio Massi
A widowered author aka tv's Paul Temple must clear his name in a spate of expectant mother slayings in this prescient genital nightmare giallo ripping up joy trails years before the concept developed a New York state of mind.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 26
THAT HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS (1980) Eugenio Martín
While vaguely reworking Rebecca's elemental thematics, Martín's pregnancy peril thriller dissects with subtle skill the barbaric treatment of women within the stigmatized medical systems of mental & reproductive health.
THAT HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS (1980) Eugenio Martín
While vaguely reworking Rebecca's elemental thematics, Martín's pregnancy peril thriller dissects with subtle skill the barbaric treatment of women within the stigmatized medical systems of mental & reproductive health.
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 26
THAT HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS (1980) Eugenio Martín
While vaguely reworking Rebecca's elemental thematics, Martín's pregnancy peril thriller dissects with subtle skill the barbaric treatment of women within the stigmatized medical systems of mental & reproductive health.
THAT HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS (1980) Eugenio Martín
While vaguely reworking Rebecca's elemental thematics, Martín's pregnancy peril thriller dissects with subtle skill the barbaric treatment of women within the stigmatized medical systems of mental & reproductive health.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 24
ANIMA PERSA (1977) Dino Risi
A contemporary gothic character study with notes of Jekyll & Hyde that leans into the more disturbing or subversive aspects of fairy tales, this Venice set giallo forces perspective like a blown-up painting detail or a peephole.
ANIMA PERSA (1977) Dino Risi
A contemporary gothic character study with notes of Jekyll & Hyde that leans into the more disturbing or subversive aspects of fairy tales, this Venice set giallo forces perspective like a blown-up painting detail or a peephole.
January 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 24
ANIMA PERSA (1977) Dino Risi
A contemporary gothic character study with notes of Jekyll & Hyde that leans into the more disturbing or subversive aspects of fairy tales, this Venice set giallo forces perspective like a blown-up painting detail or a peephole.
ANIMA PERSA (1977) Dino Risi
A contemporary gothic character study with notes of Jekyll & Hyde that leans into the more disturbing or subversive aspects of fairy tales, this Venice set giallo forces perspective like a blown-up painting detail or a peephole.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 23
HOTEL FEAR (1978) Francesco Barilli
Using setting as a mirror for a tormented psyche, this period giallo never fully commits to mystery, gothic or female centric paranoia thriller milieu, dwelling in its own paradoxically sunny dark of grotesque intention.
HOTEL FEAR (1978) Francesco Barilli
Using setting as a mirror for a tormented psyche, this period giallo never fully commits to mystery, gothic or female centric paranoia thriller milieu, dwelling in its own paradoxically sunny dark of grotesque intention.
January 23, 2026 at 5:51 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 23
HOTEL FEAR (1978) Francesco Barilli
Using setting as a mirror for a tormented psyche, this period giallo never fully commits to mystery, gothic or female centric paranoia thriller milieu, dwelling in its own paradoxically sunny dark of grotesque intention.
HOTEL FEAR (1978) Francesco Barilli
Using setting as a mirror for a tormented psyche, this period giallo never fully commits to mystery, gothic or female centric paranoia thriller milieu, dwelling in its own paradoxically sunny dark of grotesque intention.
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#JanuaryGiallo Day 22
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 22
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 22
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 22
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba
Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 21
SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1987) Franco Ferrini
Italy’s essential workers mobilize against a killer in frequent filone scrittore Ferrini’s sole directorial effort inspired by Fritz Lang’s M with a social realist approach bafflingly chaste yet subtle as a cattle gun.
SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1987) Franco Ferrini
Italy’s essential workers mobilize against a killer in frequent filone scrittore Ferrini’s sole directorial effort inspired by Fritz Lang’s M with a social realist approach bafflingly chaste yet subtle as a cattle gun.
January 21, 2026 at 5:19 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 21
SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1987) Franco Ferrini
Italy’s essential workers mobilize against a killer in frequent filone scrittore Ferrini’s sole directorial effort inspired by Fritz Lang’s M with a social realist approach bafflingly chaste yet subtle as a cattle gun.
SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1987) Franco Ferrini
Italy’s essential workers mobilize against a killer in frequent filone scrittore Ferrini’s sole directorial effort inspired by Fritz Lang’s M with a social realist approach bafflingly chaste yet subtle as a cattle gun.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 20
NIGHT OF VIOLENCE (1965) Roberto Mauri
Banned upon release for obscenity, this early fumetto style mystery directly addresses changing attitudes towards premarital sex & aristocratic convention while exposing potential sociopathic costs of untreated post-war trauma.
NIGHT OF VIOLENCE (1965) Roberto Mauri
Banned upon release for obscenity, this early fumetto style mystery directly addresses changing attitudes towards premarital sex & aristocratic convention while exposing potential sociopathic costs of untreated post-war trauma.
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 20
NIGHT OF VIOLENCE (1965) Roberto Mauri
Banned upon release for obscenity, this early fumetto style mystery directly addresses changing attitudes towards premarital sex & aristocratic convention while exposing potential sociopathic costs of untreated post-war trauma.
NIGHT OF VIOLENCE (1965) Roberto Mauri
Banned upon release for obscenity, this early fumetto style mystery directly addresses changing attitudes towards premarital sex & aristocratic convention while exposing potential sociopathic costs of untreated post-war trauma.
Excuse me while I don’t move for 24 hours #nw #physicalmedia #dayoffvibes #filmsky #SpanishSinema 🙃🚿
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Excuse me while I don’t move for 24 hours #nw #physicalmedia #dayoffvibes #filmsky #SpanishSinema 🙃🚿
#JanuaryGiallo Day 19
SENSI (1986) Gabriele Lavia
It's tainted love in the trenches when a marked hitman thaws out an icy fatale in this stylish vanity neo-noir of wall-to-wall wasted potential enough to propel your honey pot into a state of furiously masturbatory, disconsolate yearning.
SENSI (1986) Gabriele Lavia
It's tainted love in the trenches when a marked hitman thaws out an icy fatale in this stylish vanity neo-noir of wall-to-wall wasted potential enough to propel your honey pot into a state of furiously masturbatory, disconsolate yearning.
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 19
SENSI (1986) Gabriele Lavia
It's tainted love in the trenches when a marked hitman thaws out an icy fatale in this stylish vanity neo-noir of wall-to-wall wasted potential enough to propel your honey pot into a state of furiously masturbatory, disconsolate yearning.
SENSI (1986) Gabriele Lavia
It's tainted love in the trenches when a marked hitman thaws out an icy fatale in this stylish vanity neo-noir of wall-to-wall wasted potential enough to propel your honey pot into a state of furiously masturbatory, disconsolate yearning.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 18
WAVES OF LUST (1975) Ruggero Deodato
In this slimy intersection of awful people by the sea yacht gialli & cucking opuscula, an abusive industrialist is given a front row seat of drunken repose to view his very nature skewered like an octopus (or his partner).
WAVES OF LUST (1975) Ruggero Deodato
In this slimy intersection of awful people by the sea yacht gialli & cucking opuscula, an abusive industrialist is given a front row seat of drunken repose to view his very nature skewered like an octopus (or his partner).
January 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 18
WAVES OF LUST (1975) Ruggero Deodato
In this slimy intersection of awful people by the sea yacht gialli & cucking opuscula, an abusive industrialist is given a front row seat of drunken repose to view his very nature skewered like an octopus (or his partner).
WAVES OF LUST (1975) Ruggero Deodato
In this slimy intersection of awful people by the sea yacht gialli & cucking opuscula, an abusive industrialist is given a front row seat of drunken repose to view his very nature skewered like an octopus (or his partner).
#JanuaryGiallo Day 17
THE HOOK (1976) Erricos Andreau
Somewhere between The Postman Always Rings Twice & Interrabang is this silk-stocking sun-drenched romp of spousal shenanigans so competitive the pair can't even play a civil boardgame without plotting to kill each other.
THE HOOK (1976) Erricos Andreau
Somewhere between The Postman Always Rings Twice & Interrabang is this silk-stocking sun-drenched romp of spousal shenanigans so competitive the pair can't even play a civil boardgame without plotting to kill each other.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 17
THE HOOK (1976) Erricos Andreau
Somewhere between The Postman Always Rings Twice & Interrabang is this silk-stocking sun-drenched romp of spousal shenanigans so competitive the pair can't even play a civil boardgame without plotting to kill each other.
THE HOOK (1976) Erricos Andreau
Somewhere between The Postman Always Rings Twice & Interrabang is this silk-stocking sun-drenched romp of spousal shenanigans so competitive the pair can't even play a civil boardgame without plotting to kill each other.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 16
THIRSTY FOR LOVE, SEX & MURDER (1972) Mehmet Aslan
58 torrential minutes of sadomasochistic reveries, mod fashion, nonsensical exchanges & deranged needle drops—no, it's not a biopic about yours truly but the Turkish remake of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.
THIRSTY FOR LOVE, SEX & MURDER (1972) Mehmet Aslan
58 torrential minutes of sadomasochistic reveries, mod fashion, nonsensical exchanges & deranged needle drops—no, it's not a biopic about yours truly but the Turkish remake of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.
January 16, 2026 at 6:29 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 16
THIRSTY FOR LOVE, SEX & MURDER (1972) Mehmet Aslan
58 torrential minutes of sadomasochistic reveries, mod fashion, nonsensical exchanges & deranged needle drops—no, it's not a biopic about yours truly but the Turkish remake of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.
THIRSTY FOR LOVE, SEX & MURDER (1972) Mehmet Aslan
58 torrential minutes of sadomasochistic reveries, mod fashion, nonsensical exchanges & deranged needle drops—no, it's not a biopic about yours truly but the Turkish remake of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 15
THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN (1975) Luigi Cozzi
In a skillfully nasty nod to Scerbanenco & Highsmith, marital murder for hire goes awry when a thrill seeking couple unwittingly insert themselves in convoluted killer chicanery via a little grand theft auto.
THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN (1975) Luigi Cozzi
In a skillfully nasty nod to Scerbanenco & Highsmith, marital murder for hire goes awry when a thrill seeking couple unwittingly insert themselves in convoluted killer chicanery via a little grand theft auto.
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 15
THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN (1975) Luigi Cozzi
In a skillfully nasty nod to Scerbanenco & Highsmith, marital murder for hire goes awry when a thrill seeking couple unwittingly insert themselves in convoluted killer chicanery via a little grand theft auto.
THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN (1975) Luigi Cozzi
In a skillfully nasty nod to Scerbanenco & Highsmith, marital murder for hire goes awry when a thrill seeking couple unwittingly insert themselves in convoluted killer chicanery via a little grand theft auto.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 14
THE SPECTER OF TERROR (1973) José María Elorrieta
After a stewardess survives repeated attempts on her life by a greasy war vet up-skirt photographer who makes out with dolls & does weird things to cigarettes, the cops & her sexy psychiatrist tighten the net.
THE SPECTER OF TERROR (1973) José María Elorrieta
After a stewardess survives repeated attempts on her life by a greasy war vet up-skirt photographer who makes out with dolls & does weird things to cigarettes, the cops & her sexy psychiatrist tighten the net.
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 14
THE SPECTER OF TERROR (1973) José María Elorrieta
After a stewardess survives repeated attempts on her life by a greasy war vet up-skirt photographer who makes out with dolls & does weird things to cigarettes, the cops & her sexy psychiatrist tighten the net.
THE SPECTER OF TERROR (1973) José María Elorrieta
After a stewardess survives repeated attempts on her life by a greasy war vet up-skirt photographer who makes out with dolls & does weird things to cigarettes, the cops & her sexy psychiatrist tighten the net.
#JanuaryGiallo Day 13
ELLA Y EL MIEDO (1964) León Klimovsky
A showgirl is relentlessly stalked after witnessing a strangling on her way home from work in this Spanish answer to The Girl Who Knew Too Much brimming with borrowed visual hallmarks from Hitchcock & the German krimi.
ELLA Y EL MIEDO (1964) León Klimovsky
A showgirl is relentlessly stalked after witnessing a strangling on her way home from work in this Spanish answer to The Girl Who Knew Too Much brimming with borrowed visual hallmarks from Hitchcock & the German krimi.
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#JanuaryGiallo Day 13
ELLA Y EL MIEDO (1964) León Klimovsky
A showgirl is relentlessly stalked after witnessing a strangling on her way home from work in this Spanish answer to The Girl Who Knew Too Much brimming with borrowed visual hallmarks from Hitchcock & the German krimi.
ELLA Y EL MIEDO (1964) León Klimovsky
A showgirl is relentlessly stalked after witnessing a strangling on her way home from work in this Spanish answer to The Girl Who Knew Too Much brimming with borrowed visual hallmarks from Hitchcock & the German krimi.