10 great neo-giallo films

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Although Jean-Luc Godard said that all you need for a movie is a gun and a girl, where giallo is concerned, knives, nudity and black leather gloves may also come in handy. Enjoying its bloody heyday in the 1970s, this Italian mystery-slasher genre was as thrilling and popular as it was difficult to define.

Fans can be exacting about what a giallo film is. Some…

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