
Episode 34: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
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03/15/24 • 58 min
An array of giallo regulars, and Stanley Baker, are confounded by a murder-within-a-dream in Lucio Fulci's bloody, brilliant 1971 classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin/Una lucertola con la pelle di donna.
CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, drug use, gaslighting, animal cruelty, gore.
Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear
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Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth
Volume 1: 1963-1973
Volume 2: 1974-2013
Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World
Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones
All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth
Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce
Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth
An array of giallo regulars, and Stanley Baker, are confounded by a murder-within-a-dream in Lucio Fulci's bloody, brilliant 1971 classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin/Una lucertola con la pelle di donna.
CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, drug use, gaslighting, animal cruelty, gore.
Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear
Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com
Our theme music:
Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library
Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth
Volume 1: 1963-1973
Volume 2: 1974-2013
Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World
Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones
All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth
Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce
Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth
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Episode 33: A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Dave and Jon ponder another fateful meeting with Paul Naschy in Italy, no honest, it is, in León Klimovsky's A Dragonfly for Each Corpse/Una libélula para cada muerto (1975).
CW: Sexualised violence, problematic LGBTIQA+ stereotypes.
Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear
Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com
Our theme music:
Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library
Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth
Volume 1: 1963-1973
Volume 2: 1974-2013
Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World
Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones
All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth
Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce
Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth
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Episode 35: Libido
Dave and Jon discuss an early calling card for the legendary Ernesto Gastaldi, who along with Vittorio Salerno (sorta), writes and directs1965's Libido.
CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, gaslighting, mental illness.
Copyright © 2024 David Thomas and Jon Dear
Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com
Our theme music:
Silent Night (Dark Piano Version) by myuu
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download/Stream Music promoted by Audio Library
Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History by Roberto Curti
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth
Volume 1: 1963-1973
Volume 2: 1974-2013
Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World
Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones
All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth
Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce
Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi by Troy Howarth
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