This time, Jon and Dave take a sidestep into Proper Film™ as we attempt to ascertain if a movie that influenced a lot of gialli, Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary Blowup (1966), is itself a giallo. Also, whether anything happens in the movie.
CW: Homophobic language, sexual assault.
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Giallo Reading List
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films by Troy Howarth
Volume 1: 1963-1973
Volume 2: 1974-2013
Volume 3: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World
Mario Bava: All the Colours of the Dark By Tim Lucas
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths & the Magic by Alan Jones
All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy by Troy Howarth
Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce