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Sep 19, 2022 - 2:15 PM
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Tall Guy
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In responding to Leo in his The Case of the Bloody Iris thread, I thought of the phrase “Giallo Bingo” to signify all the recurring motifs in that kind of film.
When I googled it, I found that someone had got there first, and had come up with 24 features that are common to gialli.
They chose:
Funky music
Twist ending
Witness of murder
Striptease
Killer’s POV
Man slaps woman
Overloud or inappropriate music
Outrageous title
J&B bottle
Naked woman
Death by stabbing
Red herring
Black gloved killer
Goofy police inspector
Important picture
Woman takes bath or shower
Blackmail
Gay/lesbian character
Important memory
Random scene in Italian
Ooh ooh music
Death by razor
Childhood trauma
Killer’s footsteps
Drink a shot for each one of these that comes up in a random selection of gialli and you’ll need a new liver by next weekend.
Still, I’m going to have to play it!
Edit, June 2023…
This is the FSM giallo bingo point directory. Where a film is reviewed more than once, it gets the higher score:
Torso - 18
Blow Out - 18
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - 17
Deep Red - 17
The Bloodstained Shadow - 16
The Case of the Bloody Iris -15
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh - 15
Four Flies on Grey Velvet - 15
The Fifth Cord - 15
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times - 15
Dressed to Kill - 15
The Flesh and Blood Show - 15
Tenebrae - 14
The Black Belly of the Tarantula - 14
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin - 14
Murder Obsession - 14
Who Saw Her Die - 13
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats - 13
Strip Nude For Your Killer - 13
The Eyes of Laura Mars - 12
Death Walks on High Heels - 12
Eye in the Labyrinth - 12
Watch Me When I Kill You - 12
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave - 12
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key - 12
The Iguana With the Tongue of Fire - 11
Cat O’Nine Tails - 11
What Have You Done to Solange? - 11
Knife of Ice - 11
Smile Before Death - 11
So Sweet … So Perverse - 11
A Quiet Place to Kill - 11
Sleepless - 11
Opera - 10
The Weekend Murders - 10
My Dear Killer - 10
Formula For a Murder - 10
The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail - 10
Orgasmo aka Paranoia - 10
The Perfume of the Woman in Black - 10
A Bay of Blood - 10
The Young, the Evil and the Savage aka Naked … You Die - 10
So Sweet, So Dead - 10
Phenomena - 10
E Tante Paura - 10
The New York Ripper - 10
Death Laid an Egg - 10
A Blade in the Dark - 9
Spasmo - 9
The Killer Must Kill Again - 9
Eyeball - 9
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion - 9
The Bloodstained Butterfly - 9
Five Dolls for an August Moon - 9
The Card Player - 9
Don’t Torture a Duckling - 8
One On Top of the Other - 8
All the Colours of the Dark - 8
The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive - 8
What Have They Done to Your Daughters? - 8
Seven Bloodstained Orchids - 8
The Girl in Room 2a - 8
The Stendhal Syndrome - 8
The Girl Who Knew Too Much - 8
Puzzle aka L’Uomo Senza Memoria - 7
Libido - 7
Short Night of the Glass Dolls - 7
The Cold Eyes of Fear - 7
Death Walks at Midnight - 7
A Black Veil For Lisa - 7
Suspicious Death of a Minor - 7
Do You Like Hitchcock? - 6
The Telephone (from Black Sabbath) - 5
The Pyjama Girl Case - 5
Dark Glasses - 5
Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye - 5
Blood and Black Lace - 4
The Designated Victim - 4
The Devil Has Seven Faces - 4
Suspiria (not really a giallo) - 2
The Two Faces of Fear - 0
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"Ooh ooh music" . . . ? 
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They forgot to add-
Difficult to follow plot/ outcome nicely explained with one line of dialogue. Just as some one watching, with you, decides to talk. (Usually my mum). 
Pause rewind.
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"Goofy police inspector"
Or kind and reliable police inspector...who turns out to be the killer.
Or kind and reliable flatmate of stalked heroine...who turns out to be the killer.
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"Ooh ooh music" . . . ?
Isn't there usually a woman or woman's chorus going, "Ooooooh, wahhhh, oooooh" for the romantic bits in giallos?
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I dont think Edda Dell'Orso or Nora Orlandi ever went "Ooooh waahhh Ooooh" lol
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Sep 24, 2022 - 10:42 AM
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Tall Guy
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Cat O’Nine Tails (Argento, 1971)
Argento’s gialli are very different in tone to other high profile directors in the genre, so I wasn’t expecting too many common features, but in fact I counted eleven. I gave the benefit of the doubt to “man slaps woman” because it was a young girl who got the flat of the hand. I could have counted “naked woman” for the only love scene but it was brief and out of focus and so I didn’t bother.
I did include music both funky and ooh ooh, but not inappropriate/overloud, which is subjective. And it’s Ennio - who am I to say it’s inappropriate?
I enjoyed it more this time around, even though I watched it in English (how else would you know if there were a random scene in Italian). I’ve reassessed Argento again - at first I thought him the mutt’s nuts, and then more or less dismissed him as a hack after watching other directors’ work, and now I rate him quite highly again.
I’m enjoying this trawl through the wacky world of the giallo. More to come…
Edit - upgraded from ten giallo bingo points to eleven. I didn’t initially think the railway station picture was sufficiently important, but on reflection although it didn’t give away the killer it implied there was one; and it demonstrated Arnò’s uncanny ability to use his other gifts, no longer being blessed with sight. So eleven it is.
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Have that on.e too, it's been a while
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One of my favorites is Argento’s Deep Red, coming in at
15 of 24 by my count. No “ooh ooh” points I’m afraid.
Maybe someone has a video of The Strange Vice of Mrs
Wardh which, if memory serves, might have a score of
twenty or higher?
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