Silvio Amadio’s Smile Before Death, of which he both wrote with Francesco Villa and directed, is perhaps not the most exciting giallo to come along, but it is an interesting one. It […]
One Little… – Smile Before Death (1972)
Quiet and Unassuming, He Was the… – Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper was a man accredited with killing five women, though some might suspect that he had innumerable kills to his name. He could have been a doctor or a pauper […]
After Serving Her Time, She Was Still… – The Hunted (1948)
Preston Foster and Belita star in the 1948 film noir The Hunted, as directed by Jack Bernhard. It finds Foster as a police detective who even after sending his girlfriend to prison […]
Three Million Reasons to Kill – Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Despite being one of Mario Bava’s lesser known films, Five Dolls for an August Moon is a stylish giallo that is beautifully shot with surprisingly little blood, but a mystery that draws […]
Become Ensnared in… – The Maze (1953)
Kitty knows that Gerald has a secret, what she fails to understand is why he is keeping it from her, especially as they are to be married. Also, what does that maze […]
Nefarious Dealings – Juggernaut (1936)
Juggernaut from 1936 is an old-fashioned mystery yarn starring Boris Karloff who once again plays the villain. This go round he is a doctor who has run out of money and he […]
Unable to Help Herself, She’s In… – Shock (1946)
Starring a young Vincent Price before he became a horror icon, Shock from 1946 is a fine little noir picture that finds our man as a doctor who has just murdered his […]
Just a Little… – Hysteria (1965)
Losing one’s memory has to be one of the hardest things to ever go through, not to mention one of the scariest. Whether it is all of a sudden or a slow […]
Doom Sounds… – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Settling into his nearly two-decade run at Hammer Studios, Peter Cushing would star in the Terence Fisher directed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. He would step […]
Framed! – Crime Against Joe (1956)
Joe is an unassuming young man, a painter by day and a drinker by night. After the war, Joe was a little lost, but he soon found himself and now the man […]
The Telltale Mind 