This was a documentary that I heard about and it went on a list of ones to check out. I saw that this was streaming on Shudder so I decided to give it a watch while working. This turned out to be a bad idea. I'll get into why. Don't think that this is a bad documentary though, that's not the case.
What I'm alluding to is that his is mostly in Italian, a language that I don't speak fluently enough. It was difficult to read the subtitles while trying to work. I'm not going to hold this against the documentary as this is well done. I just thought it would be more of the experts on the genre talking about it. We get filmmakers.
I'd say that this is de facto led by Fabio Melelli who is an Italian movie historian. He gives good insight and leads us into the different major players. What I love here is that we get interviews with directors like the great Dario Argento, Sergio Martino and Lamberto Bava talking about his father, Mario. There is an archive interview of Lucio Fulci which was great. There are even lesser directors here like Luciano Ercoli and Umberto Lenzi. That's not to say they didn't do great work in their own rights. They aren't just as known household names as others. We also get to hear from Ernesto Gastaldi, who did writing of many gialli. There are also actors like Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Daria Nicolodi and Nieves Navarro.
Despite me not knowing what I was getting, this is informative about this great subgenre of film. There were quite a few movies that I've seen. There are also titles that I haven't yet and will be moving up my list after seeing this. An interesting look at the origins and how this subgenre influenced others going forward. I'd recommend it to fans for sure.
My Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
