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Ooh oohs my arse
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I tried this with an American stab (pun intended) at a giallo, Eyes of Laura Mars:
Funky music "Ah ah ay ay, let's all chant"
Twist ending - Yes
Witness of murder - Yes, in a psychic manner.
Striptease - No (although the fashion models routinely take their tops off in changing rooms.)
Killer’s POV - Oh my, yes.
Man slaps woman - No, although there certainly were a couple of hysteric bits where that could have happened.
Overloud or inappropriate music - I guess some overloud, but not necessarily inappropriate.
Outrageous title - Kind of?
J&B bottle - I didn't spot one, but Raul Julia is slugging whiskey quite a lot.
Naked woman - Yes. Fashion models in their natural state.
Death by stabbing - That is indeed the killer's method. Right through the eyes.
Red herring - Batches of 'em.
Black gloved killer - Not really, although I think the killer wears gloves anyway because the weather is cold, haha.
Goofy police inspector - Some horseplay among the detectives, but nothing really "goofy".
Important picture - The whole background of the film is fashion photography - specifically provocative shots of sex and violence. But not really any photos with a clue in them.
Woman takes bath or shower - Two of the models are massaging each other right before they're killed, but I don't think that counts.
Blackmail - No.
Gay/lesbian character - Rene Auberjonois' Donald Phelps. The above-mentioned massage scene is fairly homoerotic.
Important memory - The killer is traumatized by his memories of a horrible childhood.
Random scene in Italian - No.
Ooh ooh music - Not Italian giallo-type, but the disco songs have plenty of literal "ooo ooo"s.
Death by razor - No, but an icepick.
Childhood trauma - Most certainly.
Killer’s footsteps - Not so much the sound, but the killer does a lot of stalking in this.
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Just revisited 'The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'. And the Giallo Bingo total - I make it 17. With a possible 3 more depending on your point of view-
Man slaps woman- it could have been woman slaps woman, can't be sure , they were in disguise.
Inappropriate music , depending on whether you like Ennio's urban style.
Blackmail- the line is uttered( ' this is blakmail') but it's never pursued in plot.
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Going back to the old days, Bava’s Blood and Black Lace
Functional, flat plot and dialogue (the English dub follows
the original very closely) but still pretty sinister and not
surprisingly alive with color.
But- on the bingo scale- killer slaps one woman around,
Black gloves, Blackmail, and a school of Red herring.
That’s it, 4 of 24.
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Short Night of Glass Dolls - score 7 at a push. No ooh a hh music but a bit of panting in steady.
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Deep Red =17
It's been a while but I enjoyed it ,again. Not really a big fan of the music. Also never spotted J&B!
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Deep Red =17
It's been a while but I enjoyed it ,again. Not really a big fan of the music. Also never spotted J&B!
I have 30-odd gialli on my shelves and will work through them all in the course of this thread. It’ll be interesting to see how our scores coincide. Some things are factual, others subjective…
I did take a it of a liberty with lady takes a bath. She wa actually drowned in it.
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I did take a it of a liberty with lady takes a bath. She wa actually drowned in it.
If she ran it, or had it run for her, I’d say it counts regardless of outcome. If she hadn’t been intending to take a bath, I wouldn’t include it.
Phew, it’s hard work being an arbiter.
Well, she was bound to have a bath. So the killer was being considerate by running it for her. Then changed his mind. 
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Who Saw Her Die= 13
Some may find EMs approach,here, annoying.
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Oct 5, 2022 - 11:46 PM
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Tall Guy
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What Have You Done to Solange (Massimo Dallamano, 1972)
Eleven giallo bingo points, including the briefest glimpse of a J&B bottle, and not including outrageous title, as it sums up the plot rather well. Full, however, of weak, unpleasant characters from Fabio Testi’s gym teacher (always hated them at school, sadists) to a sordid photographer to the cliquey schoolgirls who power the plot. The main compensation is Ennio’s fantastic score, a cut above even most of his efforts for the genre.
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Oct 5, 2022 - 11:50 PM
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Thor
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I've never really been into the giallo genre, sorry to say, but yesterday I had a bit of an Argento binge. First I watched Gaspar Noë's harrowing parable on dementia, VORTEX, starring Argento as one of the elderly leads (this has nothing to do with giallo, though). Then I finally watched Argento's own, proper giallo film from 2021, OCCHIALI NERI [BLACK GLASSES], which seems to cross off many of the points listed in the first post. Incidentally, I also reviewed Rebotini's score awhile back, prior to having seen the movie: http://celluloidtunes.no/occhiali-neri-arnaud-rebotini/.
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. And if there has to be a touch of something, better the ooh oohs, frankly. 
