Italian Horror – Murder, Mystery & Giallo Galore
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Directors: Mario Bava
Writers: Marcello Fondato, Giuseppe Barilla
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Story: A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento
Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Story: A witness of an attack, a writer becomes stalked by a serial killer.
Other Films In Series: The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972)
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Directors: Mario Bava
Writers: Mario Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello
Stars: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
Story: The murder of a wealthy heiress by her husband triggers a series of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area.
Other Films In Series: None.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento, Luigi Collo
Stars: EJames Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Story: A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.
Other Films In Series: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972)
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Torso (1973)
Directors: Sergio Martino
Writers: Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino
Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda
Story: A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Deep Red (1975)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento, Bernardino Zapponi
Stars:David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Story: After witnessing a brutal murder, a pianist is unsuspectingly pulled into a complex web of mystery.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Directors: Joe D'Amato
Writers: Ottavio Fabbri (screenplay), Giacomo Guerrini (story)
Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi
Story: Grief-struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Other Films In Series: The Third Eye (1966)
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Inferno (1980)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento
Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi
Story: An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.
Other Films In Series: Suspiria (1977), Mother of Tears (2007)
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Tenebre (1982)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento
Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo
Story: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Other Films In Series: None.
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The New York Ripper (1982)
Directors: Lucio Fulci
Writers: Gianfranco Clerici, Lucio Fulci
Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross
Story: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Phenomena (1985)
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Stage Fright (1987)
Directors: Michele Soavi
Writers: George Eastman, Sheila Goldberg
Stars: David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore
Story: A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roberto Leoni
Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Story: A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Other Films In Series: None.
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