Movie Matters Podcast #35 - Halloween Special VI: Gialloween

I'm very proud to present this Movie Matters Gialloween episode, which I co-hosted. Details of the episode and the download link are below, and please follow Movie Matters on Facebook and iTunes!

For this, the sixth annual Movie Matters Halloween Special, Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie welcome back to the hosting chair Demented Danman aka Focus On Film's Daniel Sardella. On this occasion we give our autumnal 'frightivities' a twist of yellow as we hand-pick three gialli to dissect and discuss.

The movies under the analytical knife in this 'Gialloween' triple bill are: Paolo Cavara's stylishly sadistic THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA (1971), Massimo Dallamano's undeniably sleazy but still deeply affecting 'schoolgirls in peril' mystery WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? (1972), and finally an 'American giallo', the deliriously unhinged and highly controversial psychosexual thriller DRESSED TO KILL (1980), directed by Movie Matters favourite Brian De Palma (himself previously the subject of another special episode).

In between the featured reviews, we also catch up on what other gialli and horror films we've seen in the month of October and any 2015 horror movie highlights seen recently.

We'd like to thank friend of the podcast and author Troy Howarth for again supplying us with insightful written contributions and all of the Movie Matters community who kindly shared their Halloween horror viewing experiences with us. Plus we're delighted to belatedly share the 'All Giallo's Eve' spirit by including some fantastic artwork designed by Movie Matters logo creator Rich Wells. We surely speak for many when we wish we could have bundled round to Rich's house to join him in watching these gialli and sip J&B as we play an unmistakably Italian variant of Top Trumps!

The music in this episode is sampled from HALLOWEEN by John Carpenter, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? and THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA by Ennio Morricone, and DRESSED TO KILL by Pino Donaggio.

Links for reference:

• Nottingham Gialloween event
• Cinemagic Cult Classics
• Rachael Nisbet’s A Very Giallo Halloween article
• Marek’s review of THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA
• Lee’s Gialloween 2015 Letterboxd list
• Michael’s 2015 Giallo rankings Letterboxd list
• Rich Wells’ Gialloween 2015 Letterboxd list
• SO DEADLY, SO PERVERSE: 50 YEARS OF ITALIAN GIALLO FILMS by Troy Howarth on Facebook
• Order Arrow Video’s WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? BD
• THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA trailer
• WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? trailer
• DRESSED TO KILL trailer

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