Torso
Introduced by Cinematic Void programmer Jim Branscome!
One day she met a man who loved beautiful women... but not all in one piece!
A towering terror from the end of the ‘70s giallo boom, Torso finds director Sergio Martino (Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have the Key, Case of the Scorpion’s Tail) reveling in the genre’s time-honored traditions while also laying groundwork for the modern slasher.
It delivers copious violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid. Fans of classic Eurotrash, book this now!
A maniac prowls the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university students. Alarmed at the plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, Tye Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her friends elope to a secluded country villa to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they've brought it with them...
ABOUT JANUARY GIALLO:
"Every January, we like to pour ourselves a glass of J&B whiskey, sharpen our straight razor and slip on those black gloves to celebrate our favorite horror sub-genre, the Giallo. For those of you who don’t know, a Giallo is Italy’s answer to murder mysteries and thrillers that was kicked off by Mario Bava with The Girl Who Knew Too Much (aka Evil Eye) in the early sixties. While filmmakers like Umberto Lenzi made some excellent Giallos in the late sixties/early seventies such as Orgasmo and Knife of Ice, the sub-genre became popularized by Dario Argento with The Girl with Crystal Plumage . Throughout the seventies, Argento along with Sergio Martino, Lucio Fulci, Luciano Ercoli, Aldo Lado and many more made several visually stunning and viscerally violent cinematic excursions. The word Gialllo means ‘yellow’ in Italian, which was the color of the pulp and crime books that some Giallo took inspiration from. Although stylistically, the Giallo shares DNA with the German Krimi Films, the sub-genre took some wild turns mingling with occult, Gothic horror, Poliziotteschi, and psychedelia elements that created many unique variations." - Cinematic Void
