Day 17: Deep Red (1975)

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For Day 17 this year, we’ll be jumping right into the “Giallo” film world with Dario Argento’s Deep Red!! Now, I suspect many of you aren’t familiar with the “Giallo” style. To be honest, I wasn’t either. But it seemed that everytime I began doing serious research into horror film history, certain movies kept popping up again and again. Suspiria is one of those films, as well as Blood and Black Lace and Deep Red. And they’re all attributed to this Italian “Giallo” genre. So, what were these films from Italy? And why are they constantly cited? Well, “giallo” means “yellow” in Italian, and it refers to the color of …

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Day 14: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

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It’s Day 14 of this year’s 31 Days of Horror, and we’re talking about Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte from 1964!! If you’re a listener of our podcast, then you’ll recall we’ve done an episode over Bette Davis (who is the star of this movie) and an episode over Hag Horror (which is the genre of this movie). Both of those episodes were picked by Kelley, so she’s clearly a fan. She also didn’t pick this movie as her “good” choice for that Hag Horror episode; instead, she chose What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which is quite surprising to me because Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte is far and away the better film, …

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