A trailer for a horror/crime film from Dario Argento. Giallo is obviously a color (yellow), the name of the antagonist in this film, but also the name of a genre of films in Italy and France (though they are slightly different from each other) that has pulp roots. Giallo stars Adrien Brody, who is one of my favorite actors and has a new trailer. I also included the first trailer, which came out last year.
Here is the first trailer from the end of last year:
Synopsis:
YELLOW chooses his victims based on their beauty, because he himself is not beautiful. Scorned and rejected in the orphanage where he was raised as a child, he now hunts beautiful women to torture and to kill.
He keeps them alive, mentally and physically abusing them, until he grows bored. Then, he kills them and discards their body. He’s efficient, and always has his next victim ready to torture. And he’s clever, only going after tourists, women who won’t find an advocate in the police department.
His latest victim is an Asian exchange student. After her, he has CELINE (Elsa Pataky), a gorgeous fashion model.
Giallo also stars Elsa Pataky and Emmanuelle Seigner and has premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June) but it has not received a U.S. distributor (which is odd to me considering some of the crime/horror movies that do–that don’t have anything remotely close to a Brody involved)
I’m a big fan of Brody and would watch this based on his presence alone. I thought Hollywoodland was underrated (and I thought Affleck should have got a nod), and obviously he was in The Pianist (and recently The Brothers Bloom) and many other films.
I have to admit though, the trailers don’t do anything for the film at all for me.
