Due signori in giallo

British national treasure Francis Matthews (Paul Temple, Dracula: Prince of Darkness) is faced with a different kind of scarlet in Stelvio Massi's 1974 giallo Five Women for the Killer/5 donne per l'…

What do we see in Umberto Lenzi's final true giallo, 1975's Eyeball/Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro? Listen and find out.

CW: Violence, gendered violence, problematic portrayals of LGBTIQ+ chara…

Giulio Questi's poulty-themed 1968 film Death Laid an Egg/La morte ha fatto l'uovo confounds Dave and Jon. Were we beaten, or is it a clucking masterpiece?

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Married life meets giallo sleaze. Dave and Jon examine a strange state of affairs with Roberto Bianchi Montero's 1972 wandering-eye giallo So Sweet, So Dead/Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo…

We're back for our fourth season and fortieth episode. Dang, if only Mimsy Farmer had been in a famous movie with 'four' in the title... Instead we catch up with her being affected by the heat in Arm…

Season 3 finally wraps with a giallo-esque classic, in part 2 of our dead-child-in-Venice epic, Nic Roeg's 1973 film Don't Look Now.

CW: Violence, gendered violence, death of a child.

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George Lazenby is an unlikely sleauth in Aldo Lado's oddly familiar Who Saw Her Die?/Chi l'ha vista morire? from 1972. Part one of our season finale!

CW: Gendered violence, violence against children.

There' a lot of plot to figure out in Luciano Ercoli's 1972 thriller Death Walks at Midnight/La morte accarezza a mezzanotte. Are Dave and Jon up to the task?

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What's that saying about it not being over until the fat lady screams? Something like that anyway, as we discuss Dario Argento's 1987 shocker Opera.

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Dave and Jon discuss an early calling card for the legendary Ernesto Gastaldi, who along with Vittorio Salerno (sorta), writes and directs1965's Libido.

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An array of giallo regulars, and Stanley Baker, are confounded by a murder-within-a-dream in Lucio Fulci's bloody, brilliant 1971 classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin/Una lucertola con la pelle di donn…

Dave and Jon ponder another fateful meeting with Paul Naschy in Italy, no honest, it is, in León Klimovsky's A Dragonfly for Each Corpse/Una libélula para cada muerto (1975).

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Jon and Dave asked for Star Wars for Christmas but the shops were were all sold out, so instead our nans got us Luigi Cozzi's delightful space opera shambles Starcrash/Scontri stellari oltre la terza…

There's a voice reaching out in a piercing cry. It's definitely a case of "Argh! Vienna!" as Jon and Dave tackle the tantalising Edwige Fenech (if only) in Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs. W…

One of the eighties-est gialli ever, a story of boobs, intrigue, boobs, hallucinations, boobs, murder and boobs. It's Lamberto Bava's Delirium/Le foto di Gioia from 1987.

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There are terrible crimes being committed in an ancient castle - and that's just the Scottish accents. Dave and Jon tackle Antonio Margheriti's Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye/La morte negli occhi del …

Who is the mysterious masked figure terrorizing TV's Michael Brandon? And what is the strange connection between Dario Argento and Thomas the Tank Engine? All will be revealed as Dave and Jon tackle …

Due signori season three is here. Jon and Dave are lost in space in Luigi Bazzoni's baffling, beautiful Footprints on the Moon/Le orme (1975).

CW: Mental illness, gaslighting, Klaus Kinski

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Season two comes to a bloody climax with one of the quintessential gialli, which bizarrely was made by a Hollywood director in the USA. Jon and Dave spend a New York minute delving into Brian De Palm…

A rather tangiential festive episode as Jon and Dave discover the rain in Spain falls mainly on the deranged, with Jean Seberg and Marisol competing to have it away in a manger with Barry Stokes, in …