From their "Hammer's House of Horror" screenings to their 21-movie Mario Bava spotlight and extensive Jean Rollin retrospective, New York's Quad Cinema has been an essential source for celebrating the horror genre's past, and they will continue to do so later this month with "Perversion Stories: A Fistful of Giallo Restorations."
Taking place November 23rd–29th at New York's Quad Cinema, "Perversion Stories: A Fistful of Giallo Restorations" will showcase digital restorations of Italian titles both beloved and lesser-known, including Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, Sergio Martino's Torso, Joe D’Amato's Death Smiles on a Murderer, and more.
Read on for more details on the giallo restoration screenings, and be sure to visit Quad Cinema's official website for additional information!
"Perversion Stories:
A Fistful of Giallo RestorationsNovember 23 – 29
The Quad offers up a selection of salacious and sinister Italian pulp—all screening in new digital restorations! With titles from Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Flavio Mogherini, and more
Taking audiences on a voyage to dark and disturbing corners, Italy’s giallo genre drew its label from the yellow color of the pulp fiction softcover books that became popular in postwar Italy. Over time it became the umbrella title for the cinematic state of mind wherein Italian filmmakers play sinister games with the characters and with the audience. Gialli serve up lip-smacking and lipstick-smearing blends of baroque imagery, Euro chic, stalking and voyeurism, bedrooms as sensual refuge and killing ground, gloved hands wielding deadly weapons, ill-advised couplings, and lurid bloody violence—emblazoned with titles that would have been at home on those old paperbacks. The Quad dares you to marinate in six fresh scoops of giallo from the 20th-century heyday of this stylish and still-influential subgenre.
*All titles are New York premieres of digital restorations. Screening in their original Italian-language versions with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail
Sergio Martino, 1971, Italy/Spain, 90m, DCPDeath Smiles on a Murderer
Joe D’Amato, 1973, Italy, 92m, DCPA Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Lucio Fulci, 1971, Italy/Spain/France, 104m, DCPThe Pyjama Girl Case
Flavio Mogherini, 1978, Italy/Spain, 103m, DCPThe Suspicious Death of a Minor
Sergio Martino, 1975, Italy, 100m, DCPTorso
Sergio Martino, 1973, Italy, 90m, DCP*English-language version*"
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