Torso

there were two movies they were influenced by.

One is Torso, it's this Italian slasher film from '73, and then, uh, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Uh-huh.

So they wrote this in like '75, and it was, I think they, they were trying to, deliberately trying to gross themselves out and like-

interested.

There were certain things that were kind of, I don't want to say hearkening back, but as far as tropes go, like when we watched Torso earlier this year, there was an element having to do with dreams and we were getting this kind of dream moments of like a flashback that then end up having something to do with the overall story, but initially there to

create this mystery.

Granted, I had a lot of questions in this sequence, but I guess we can kind of talk about those questions when we get further towards the end.

Gianni starts having, which is another trope of Argento, he starts remembering things.

There's always this heightened sense of something happens and they've blacked it out.

And then as the movie continues, they remember more and more, which happened in Torso.

Then you see something shiny and sparkly and it's like, ooh, memory triggered.

Florinda Bolkan's voice in Don't Torture a Duckling.

You're in Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The Case of the Bloody Iris, Torso.

You're in Midnight Horror Show, Strip Nude for Your Killer, Emanuelle in America, Inferno.

Your voice is Sybil Danning's in The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.

Yeah, you'll see it in like ...

Because right now Talon's pointing to a poster over that we have on our wall for Torso, the movie, the Italian movie Torso, which is one of those-

That's my favorite.

Yeah

By the time he edited Deborah, he'd done about 20 films, and he'd worked on For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for Leone, as well as Faccia a faccia for Sollima.

Alabaso would go on to work on about a dozen or so of the most well-loved films in the genre, so So Sweet, So Perverse, Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The Fourth Victim, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Fifth Cord, Seven Bloodstained Orchids, All the Colors of the Dark, Torso, Case of the Bloody Iris.

So he really had a solid CV there.

Mm-hmm

You can feel some of these giallo tropes, but there's a gap between them, in my opinion, and in that gap would be these movies.

I put Torso as number one.

Torso, I think some people would consider to be a giallo, but it feels more like a slasher movie to me.

feels more like a you know a sex maniac it's a great film it's a Sergio Martino and he made a great he made a ton of great giallos he even made a couple I think he made a cannibal movie that's really good like Martino is a of like the four big names you know Argento Baba Fulci and then Baba I don't think Martino gets talked about as much as he should Martino is really really really great I believe he's I think he's still alive so I don't want to talk about that Stage Fright, that's another Michele Suave film.

That's just a straight-up slasher film.

What do you got?

So if I were to break it down to try to cover like a class, you know what I mean? Like an introduction to Italian art and kind of get all of it.

It would be Black Sunday, Deep Red, Demons, The Beyond, and I want to say Torso.