Italian Horror
Short Night of the Glass Dolls is a Unique Take on the Giallo
Short Night of the Glass Dolls follows Greg (Jean Sorel of A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), an American journalist working in Prague. Greg’s primary problem is that he is dead (or ap...
Gore Monger: How Lucio Fulci Helped Redefine Italian Horror
To some degree Italian horror used to dictate the landscape of American horror. The Giallo films of yesteryear, for example, paved the way for the American slasher film. Directors like Dario Argento w...
How Argento’s Deep Red Influenced Surrealist Cinema
Suspiria will probably always be remembered as Dario Argento’s best. But even still, it’s remembered as the best in a very impressive career, especially in the ‘70’s and &#...
How Well Does The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue Hold Up Today?
I recently decided to give the underrated Italian gem, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue a try and I’m glad I did. The premise of the film is simple yet effective. An incident at a petr...
How The House by the Cemetery Inverted the Zombie Genre
Lucio Fulci’s House by the Cemetery is, I’ll admit, my least favorite of the director’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy. But that doesn’t mean that the film is withou...
Giallo Madness: Seven Bloodstained Orchids
Giallo Madness is a recurring segment where Wicked Horror managing editor Tyler Doupe’ looks back on a noteworthy giallo from years past and makes a case for why it should be on your radar....
Cemetery Man: The Lost Art of Stream of Conscious Horror
In Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) Rupert Everett stars as Francisco Dellamorte, caretaker of a graveyard with the ultimate catch: the dead buried in the cemetery come back...
Fulci’s The Beyond is a Surrealist Masterpiece
Lucio Fulci was never a very linear director. His films—be they giallo, zombie or otherwise—rarely had anything resembling a straightforward plot. They worked despite these things, ...
Chronicling the Death of Italian Horror Cinema
There was a time, fondly remembered and not all that long ago, when Italy was the pinnacle of horror filmmaking. In the 1960’s Mario Bava helped define the giallo, a precursor to the American s...