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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  I used to love them then one day it dawned on me they are the hipsters Midsomer Murders |
That's a great way to describe gialli!
I personally love gialli. The blend of the horrific and the mysterious with erotic and often trippy, psychotropic elements really appeals to my sensibilities. Yes, some are merely plodding cash-ins with far from original plots and there is often the case of being exposed to dodgy dubbing and set pieces which are more substantial than the cardboard stories which contain them.
However, all that said I love the sub-genre (it's easily one of my favourites) and I can happily watch a bad gialli over say a bad slasher or zombie film. I also think that gialli represents a snap-shot of cinema that has been and gone and cannot really be emulated. Watching these films in the style of the times when they were made is like a weird and wonderful time capsule to a past era of boundary shattering but also highly enjoyable cinema.