Giallo
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Giallo is about a serial killer who targets very attractive women. The word Giallo is a clue to the killers identity which a victim utters as her dying words.

The main story surrounds the sister of a runway model (played by Elsa Pataky) and an American detective in Italy trying to find the killer before it’s too late.

As far Gimpage, there are basically two main victims that have a fair amount of screen time. The first is a Japanese girl (played by Valentina Izumi) who gets kidnapped and taken to the killer’s lair. She is bound barefoot in a dress with her hands behind her back and ankles tied together. During the scene there is also some shots of her predecessor who is tied to a table but is already dead.

Later the model is kidnapped and brought to the same location where she too is bound barefoot wearing a dress and has her ankles tied together. The killer obviously didn’t read the Gimp manual however as her hands are tied in front of her. This ends up causing some discomfort to the killer later as she escapes for a short while before being recaptured.

Both victims are tortured in various manners such as the cutting off of one of the girls fingers, cutting through the lip of the other, injections into the tongue and above the eye, etc.

Entertainment wise I wasn’t too impressed with the acting all around. The movie (acting wise) had the feel of a sixties or seventies Euro-Horror flick. Also don’t know about…or what to expect from Argento as it seems either there’s nudity galore or none at all. I did like the dramatic orchestral soundtrack though, half expecting that some Dimmu Borgir was going to follow. Grade, an average C

Gimp wise, two attractive victims (some snippets of others). No nudity but the dress attire was made appealing as the legs were bared for the most part up to the hip. Grade a C+