I'm ashamed that the only Aldo Lado film I've seen is Night Train Murders. He's obviously a very unique voice in giallo so looking forward to checking out Who Saw Her Die? asap.

So I had no idea that this was a Sunset Blvd set-up (isn't exactly that but that's all I can say without spoiling). So that was fun. Overall, enjoyed it primarily for its flirtation with surrealism and its non-linear structure. Shot by the wonderful Giuseppe Ruzzolini and scored by
Ennio Morricone... I'm convinced that The Thing score was inspired by this one.

Watched the Twilight Time Blu-ray which has audio commentary with Film Historians David Del Valle and Matteo Molinari.

Black magick, statist oppression, non-localized consciousness, catalepsy. A giallo revision of the 70's paranoid thriller, set after the collapse of Prague Spring. It unfolds like a downbeat psychedelic spy novel, with all the flowers not gone but crushed underfoot. In both texture and thematics, Short Night Of Glass Dolls feels like it has either absorbed elements from or evolved parallel to the Czech New Wave. A cold air of inevitable, stale sadism, a ruling class bored with its own decadence but unwilling to let go, a policy of unyielding, reflexive sacrifice.

One good sex murder cult giallo deserves another so I followed up All the Colors of the Dark with another one of my all time favorite giallos! This has a great cast and a genuinely intriguing mystery that leaves you wondering where it’s going to end up. Jean Sorel is delicious and the best thing in the whole movie, but Ingrid Thulin’s headscarves are a close second. 

That final frame is so haunting and gets me every time. Like it just really gut punches in just how horrible the events that have unfolded onscreen have been. I love it!

“Prepare the reanimation room” may be the most metal sentence in a giallo.

Interesting slightly different giallo. Has the standard sleaze and mysteries but also some
Other different story lines. I was actually able to watch this with the subtitles and not need the dubbed English tonwatch the film.

Fully formed giallo is v good giallo.

The refrigerator scene fucked me up.

A curious Italian giallo filmed in Prague. The story is pretty unbelievable but the atmosphere and music are great.

Eficiente giallo, ainda que não exatamente tradicional. Grande trilha de Morricone e um final que sozinho, já valeria o filme.

This film is from the point of view of a reporter trapped in his comatose body that’s thought to be dead by all around him. Unable to move or speak he tries to recall the strange occurrences that led him to being like this. 
Shot in Prague but with Italian as the main spoken language this is a pretty odd film for sure. It has some great visual moments and location shooting throughout as well as a cool Morricone score. I dug it!

Day 17. The nights are getting shorter. Night in the title.

I mean we've all had one of those nights, you don't remember how you got home but lying in a park appearing dead, now that's mental. Not able to talk or move, getting bundled up with a tag on your toe.

Screaming in your head only, trying to reach out to everyone around you for help. Heck that's a way to tell a story. Memories of the mystery coming back to our beautiful jounalist whilst he's lying helpless in the morgue.

I could tell he was a foreigner by his shoes. Wow that was a thing!

In proper mystery style your wondering who's against him and who may save him. What an ending!

There is no denying that Short night of Dolls has an interesting premise, a man is trapped in his own body and needs to figure out how he got on a morgue table before they perform an autopsy on him. The ending really brings this twisted tale together, but altogether it is a bit slow which is usual for the genre. Enjoyed this quite a bit, but not my favorite giallo.