Style, sex and savagery are the main ingredients of Italian giallo cinema, a highly salacious art form which thrives on fetishist images of beautiful, scantily-clad females being menaced by knife-wielding maniacs - often for the most obscure of motives! Now this lavish book from the publishers of the best-selling "Video Nasties!" brings you the definitive guide to this much-maligned and rarely chronicled movie genre. Entertainingly and informatively written by Adrian Luther-Smith, Blood And Black Lace contains full reviews, and exhaustive cast and credit Information (including video, laserdisc and DVD release details) on over two hundred giallo movies, most of which have never been listed in any other movieguide! In this cutting edge volume you'll find expertly performed critical dissections of such classic thrillers as Dario Argento's "Bird With The Crystal Plumage", Antonioni's "Blowup", and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now". And where else can you read all about such guilty treats as "The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire", "One On Top Of The Other", "Strip Nude For Your Killer", and controversial banned movies like Lucio Fulci's stomach-churning "New York Ripper"? Illustrated with extremely rare full colour posters, video sleeves and stills from the movies in question, Blood And Black Lace is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the darker side of Italian exploitation cinema.
