# The best Italian giallo films

Italian giallo of the 1960s and 70s, the black-gloved killer thrillers that inspired the American slasher: the classics by Bava, Argento, Fulci and Martino.

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- Oct 8, 2020 · F. Martini
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## Top 12

1. **Blood and Black Lace (1964)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mario Bava sets the rules of the genre: the masked killer and saturated colours.
2. **The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Argento's debut, the film that set off the giallo boom.
3. **Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lucio Fulci sets a brutal giallo in the rural South of Italy.
4. **Deep Red (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dario Argento's masterpiece, with the Goblin score.
5. **The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — For many, the first true giallo, by Mario Bava.
6. **Tenebrae (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Argento returns to pure giallo with a cruel nod to thriller writers.
7. **A Bay of Blood (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bava's film that anticipated the American slasher.
8. **The House with Laughing Windows (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pupi Avati takes the giallo to the Emilian countryside.
9. **The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The second chapter of Argento's «animal trilogy».
10. **A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fulci between psychedelic dreams and swinging London.
11. **What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Massimo Dallamano's dark giallo set in a London girls' school.
12. **The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sergio Martino and Edwige Fenech, the genre's iconic duo.

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