Giallo Essentials (Red Edition) - BLU-RAY
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- Genre: Horror
- Description: Alongside the spaghetti western, the giallo is one of the most famous Italian export genres films steeped in mystery and intrigue, delivered with stylized violence and unforgettable musical themes. The Possessed masterfully combines noir, mystery and giallo tropes in a proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes. It tells the story of a depressed novelist in search of his old flame who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation that finds him plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder. The Fifth Cord boasts a complex plot of investigation into a series of brutal assaults. As the body count rises, whisky swilling journalist Andrea Bild finds himself under suspicion, making it all the more imperative he crack the case. The Pyjama Girl Case, inspired by a real-life case that baffles to this day, takes us to Australia, where former inspector Timpson comes out of retirement to crack the case of a young woman, found on the beach, shot in the head, burned to hide her identity and dressed in distinctive yellow pyjamas... These essential gialli films feature a raft of talent in front and behind the camera, with each film restored from the original camera negative and presented with a range of contextualizing extras.
- Title: Giallo Essentials (Red Edition)
- Format: Blu-ray
- MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 08/22/2023
- Region Code: 0
- Genre: Horror
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- Product Name: Giallo Essentials (Red Edition) - BLU-RAY
- UPC: 760137130017
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Alongside the spaghetti western, the giallo is one of the most famous Italian export genres films steeped in mystery and intrigue, delivered with stylized violence and unforgettable musical themes. The Possessed masterfully combines noir, mystery and giallo tropes in a proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes. It tells the story of a depressed novelist in search of his old flame who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation that finds him plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder. The Fifth Cord boasts a complex plot of investigation into a series of brutal assaults. As the body count rises, whisky swilling journalist Andrea Bild finds himself under suspicion, making it all the more imperative he crack the case. The Pyjama Girl Case, inspired by a real-life case that baffles to this day, takes us to Australia, where former inspector Timpson comes out of retirement to crack the case of a young woman, found on the beach, shot in the head, burned to hide her identity and dressed in distinctive yellow pyjamas... These essential gialli films feature a raft of talent in front and behind the camera, with each film restored from the original camera negative and presented with a range of contextualizing extras.
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