Peter Strickland's Giallo Recommendations

A lot of people might be tempted to seek out Giallo films after seeing yours. As an aficionado, which films would you recommend?

I would go for the classic one The Bird With The Crystal Plummage by Dario Argento. Suspiria obviously also by him, Don’t Torture A Duckling by Lucio Fulci. There’s a very nice one called Footprints On The Moon by…I can remember the composer, but not the director (Luigi Bazzoni)…it’s got Klaus Kinski in it and Florinda Bolkan who’s in many of them. Oh my favourite one isLizard In A Woman’s Skin – Lucio Fulci again. It’s beautifully psychedelic and it’s got a brilliant Morricone soundtrack – one of his best. I like The Beyond, it’s got a great Fabio Frizzi soundtrack. It’s a little bit trashy, but that’s part of its charm. Bava – Blood And Black Lace. That was one of the first Giallo films. I think a lot of the soundtracks are fantastic. Bruno Nicolai – The Cry Of The Prostitute soundtrack is phenomenal, it’s better than Morricone, it’s so so good. Some of the Giallo films are a bit… you know… but the good ones – likeThe Bird With The Crystal Plumage look so ravishing and the soundtracks, particularly those that use the eerie wordless vocals of Edda Dell’Orso are some of the strongest things about the films

Originally published in an interview on BombTV