“Sounds like you enjoy
playing the victim.” The 1970s saw an explosion of 'giallo' films
produced by Italian filmmakers after the success of Dario Argento's début film The
Bird With The Crystal Plumage, a murder mystery that twisted sex and
violence together in a bravura package of style and warped psychology. As the
decade wore on the flood turned into a trickle, but the American slasher movie
craze that came in the wake of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
and Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980) saw
somewhat of a revival of blood-soaked mysteries in Italy with the likes of Tenebrae
(1982) and A Blade In The Dark (1983). However, once
again, the craze waned, but spurts of brilliance still emerged with Argento's Terror
at the Opera (1987) – in which a bullet penetrates a peep hole to
brain-splattering effect – or, in this case, Lamberto Bava's psycho-sexual
mystery slasher Delirium (aka La Foto Di Gioia) – in which a woman
with a big, veiny eyeball for a face gets skewered with a pitchfork … now that
got you intrigued, didn't it?
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