I’m not keeping up too well here, but here’s a short entry
to hopefully drum up a little interest in my failing little blog. So here’s a
little game I made up for the horror movie holiday coming up on Friday. I’m
sure many of you know what a Giallo film is, but just in case you don’t –
Giallo Film: A series of (originally) Italian made films,
usually concerning a murder mystery, and usually made using garish colour
pallets and aggressive camera techniques. Gialli are named after the yellow
covers adorned by most 1920s-1960s crime thrillers in
are often defined by graphic violence and lewd nudity, and are often credited
as the forerunners of the Slasher genre.
The Giallo genre was made popular by Mario Bava, but really
picked up steam in the early ‘70s after Dario Argento’s Bird with the
Crystal Plumage was an unexpected international hit. Hundreds of Argento
inspired flicks followed, including unnecessarily long titles, which became a
bit of a competition between filmmakers.
I propose a Halloween game inspired by these long titles –
write your best poem or song, any style, using only these titles. Small conjunctions
are allowed to tie the titles together. Here’s a list to work from, though feel
free to find titles I haven’t.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Blood and Black Lace (aka: Fashion House of Death, Six Women
for the Murderer)
The Bird with the
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Lizard in a Woman’s
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
The Cat o’ Nine Tails
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Dario Argento, 1971)
Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Death Laid and Egg
Death Has No Sex
Twitch of the Death Nerve
The Case of the Bloody Iris (aka: What Are Those Strange
Drops of Blood Doing On Jennifer’s Body?)
Death Knocks Twice
So Sweet…So Perverse
Don’t Torture a Duckling
The Lady of the
A Blade in the Body
Who Saw Her Die
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
What Have You Done to Solange?
They’re Coming to Get You (aka: All the Colors of the Dark)
Torso (aka: The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence)
Eyeball (aka: The Devil’s Eye, The Eye, The Secret Killer,
Wide-Eyed in the Dark)
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Deep Red (aka: Profondo Rosso , The Hatchet Murders, The
Sabre Tooth Tiger)
Strip Nude for Your Killer
The House with Laughing Windows
The Psychic (aka: Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black
Notes, Seven Notes in Black)
The Blood Stained Shadow
A Blade in the Dark
The
Ripper
Terror at the Opera
If I get any responses I’ll post them on Friday.