Bird with the Crystal Plummage,The (DVD)

Bird With The Crystal Plumage was the movie that opened the worlds eyes and ears to the term Giallo. Legendary movie maker Mario Bava created a series of movies that were distinctly Giallo and made those in Italy unaware with the term very familiar. Giallo movies are basically the Italian version of what we would call a who-dunnit. With Mario Bava mastering this genre, newcomer Dario Argento a popular scriptwriter popped up with this blistering tale of terror. The combination of tense thriller and fantastic imagery made Bird With The Crystal Plummage the most successful Italian movie of that time. An American working in Italy, Sam Dalmas is preparing to return ...

‘The Bird With The Crystal Plumage’ is a seminal work within what is known as the ‘giallo’ genre. Gialli are essentially violent murder mysteries with convoluted plots (sometimes absurdly so), grisly deaths (it has been argued that the Italian gialli of the 1970s were the precursor to the American slasher movies of the 1980s) and a stereotyped murderer who wears black and carefully unfolds a razor blade before going on the rampage at high speed. Although Mario Bava had effectively founded the genre several years previously, Dario Argento is the director whose influence was greatest on this area of filmmaking, especially in its formative ...

Giallo (which is Italian for yellow) is an Italian genre of horror really invented by Argento, these films are based on books and are all thriller/mustrey/murder novels. Basically they are like Murder She Wrote but are set aprat from this because of there massive death set pieces stages and the amount of gore and blood involved in these scenes. These films are what inspired the massive slasher boom of the eighties and bothhold a common item in place, they both use many red-herrings to throw the viewer off the killers identity. Released in 1969 this is Dario Argentos first film, he wrote and directed this film, and gain respect for this suspenseful thriller. At ...