“It’s lurid, lewd, sexy, dark, mysterious, dreamlike, full of red herrings … and it's sort of nonsensical,” explains independent film programmer Josh Saco, when tasked with describing the bizarre world of Giallo, Italian cinema’s heavily stylised murder mystery genre. “Figuring out who did it just doesn’t matter, you’re there for the ride!” Murder, sex and high fashion take centre stage in these Agatha Christie-inspired psycho-thrillers, but amongst the fumbling plots and…
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