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Well that's debatable as it's included in the giallo book Blood and black lace and features an unknown killer who they are trying to find using insects.
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Those giallo books are really inconsistent with what they do and do not include - Troy Howarth's includes Stage Fright which has no mystery or investigative element whatsoever (it's just a slasher), and yet does not include The Short Night of Glass Dolls which is a murder mystery with an amateur detective and with a giallo score by Morricone and giallo style and cinematography, poster and title, and the protagonist is even struggling to remember clearly throughout the film.
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Stage Fright does feature a mystery killer, whose identity isn't revealed until the third act, always a staple of a giallo, and which differentiates it from slashers like the Friday 13th (sequels only), Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween films, as the killer's identity is known from the very beginning. If you want to go by that, the Scream movies are post-modern gialli, also featuring an inept detective! I guess there are 'pure' gialli and then other films which are more giallo/slashers or even supernatural gialli (Inferno, Phenomena etc.).
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I'll put my view on them. Films such as Suspiria, Inferno and Phenomena aren't gialli. The latter as it's a supernatural film and the two others as they are films about witchcraft. The main aspect, in my opinion, regarding giallo or not, is a giallo is Italian in origin. Therefore films like Scream, Friday the 13th are American and purely slasher films. The American film nearest a gialli is probably Basic Instinct as that ticks every single giallo box except being Italian made. You never actually see the killer, apart from their hands or body shape in giallo cinema. In the American slashers and indeed Stagefright you see the mask constantly. Going back to it's roots the giallo was a crime, mystery or thriller with horror and erotic aspects. |
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Rather than suggesting anyone is wrong in how they define giallo i'd say a film fits the criteria for me if it's got several of these aspects to it - Italian made Crime Mystery Thriller Suspense Erotica Knife wielding maniacs Fetish Salacious murders. |
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