Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | giallo horror movie review

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Giallos are pretty movies, yet something important is always seemingly lost in translation. As a kid, I would SCREAM at the tv, in pure frustration. WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST SAY THE IMPORTANT STUFF? Now I get Italians made them, moonlighting as Americans, in hopes to make a quick buck off what was “cool” at the time. It’s their interpretation of us, yet Italian! Just the clothing alone, speaks for itself! I still don’t love them. But I at least get I wasn’t wrong now 😂😂😂😂 in my frustrations!

I always find that a bit of giallo cheers me up no end; just basking in the atmosphere (and often incomprehensibility) of the genre is like putting on a familiar, if bloodstained, cardigan.

This week I watched for the first time a giallo called "The Case of the Bloody Iris" (dir. Carnimeo) which got a prestige 4K release from new boutique label Celluloid Dreams. It also wasn't the best, but pretty good. Glad for all the extra features on the release.

I rather like this one. It’s just an enjoyable watch with a luxurious atmosphere, and a really brilliant theme tune! All the best Andrew!

Great vídeo!! Last Halloween I enjoyed Spasmo by Umberto Lenzi the story plays with giallo tropes and has very good surrealistic sequences and the resolution is intriguing.

I saw Marina Malfatti in the thumbnail and i knew exactly what was coming

My favorite Umberto Lenzi movie is Eyeball it’s a super fun giallo. Other gialli id think you’d like are Who Saw Her Die and Case of the Scorpions Tail

Thank you for this recomendation Andrew! I´ve just seen it and I really enjoyed it! if you haven't seen them yet, I recommend two movies that I saw last night, the first one is TESIS (1996, Spain) directed by Alejandro Amenabar, and think it is great, and the other one is "Cosa avete fatto a Solange" or "What have you done to Solange" (a gialo) 1972, Massimo Dallamano.

Giallo movies are a hoot, aren't they? The most important piece of wisdom I learned from the gialli by the way is never, ever to say "I know who the killer is, meet me out in the alley in a couple minutes and I'll tell you," because thats a sure fire way to end up dead.

Yeah I've been in a writing slump too, recently confounded by our dog being put down. I think you've got to learn to love the slumps in a way. As long as you're feeling anxious about not creating anything it means your subconscious is working hard on it. It would be much more worrying to be in a slump and not care, or even worse to be churning out dozens of pages that were subpar. I find that thinking time is just as important as typing time and it often happens subconsciously for me. Good luck moving forward.

Not Lenzi, but have you covered The House With Laughing Windows? I recommend that.

Hey Andrew - sorry to hear you've been experiencing a bit of a slump. I get those too, and they aren't fun. I'm most of the way through your book now, and I just want to say it's genuinely really good; keep going with the writing! As to the film, I haven't seen many gialli outside of Argento (seen all of those). Which would you say are the most essential none Argento ones?