To call the film slow-paced would imply that it has any sort of pace at all. Instead, it’s more of a sex scene highlight reel with no cohesive narrative, no mitigating sense of logique fantastique. It just sort of is.
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave is nonsensical even within the forgiving confines of giallo logic. The film assumes if it just keeps piling one eccentric thing after another, the desire for some sort of sensical outcome will be crushed.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Bouchet and Malfatti play sisters Kitty and Franziska Wildenbrück, doomed to be in one of those family’s that carries the burden of a terrible curse, the kind of nightmare story that, in these films, is usually jovially relayed to a small child by some cackling old relative.
The Sister of Ursula
The Sister of Ursula is happy to drop the “thriller” part of erotic thriller and concentrate on the erotic. Even when it gets down to the business of murder, it’s a decidedly sexual take on the act, given the movie’s unique murder weapons.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage might not have been the first giallo, but it is one of the most completely realized and best executed. Decades after it’s release, and decades after legions of imitators, it still feels fresh, inventive, and shocking.
All the Colors of the Dark
All the Colors of the Dark is a dizzying psychedelic combination of straight-forward murder mystery, hallucinogenic psycho-sexual experiment, and occult horror.
Noble War
Sompote Sands pulls out all of the stops for this riot, colorful retelling of Thai mythology by way of giant monsters bashing each other.
War God
Chinese deity Guan Yu gets giant and faces off against strutting space alien in a wild Hong Kong Taiwanese sci-fi giant monster co-production.
Wolf Devil Woman
Pearl Cheung Ling directs a bizarre martial arts film about a feral woman raised by wolves seeking revenge against the hooded villain who killed her family.
Zombie Lake: An Alternate Take
Jess Franco didn't want to direct Zombie Lake, so it fell upon down-on-his-luck Jean Rollin to crank out this infamously bad horror film.