i cant begrudge anyone having a good time watching this because i guess its funny and um, maybe im the only person in the world who stans paz de la huerta but i definitely stan paz de la huerta because she is my sloppy trash queen who rules my life and i could watch her act like a deranged sad baby for like, 100 years, just 100 years in a row of her saying "i would cry cry cry cry cry I WOULD NEVER STOP CRYING" but man outside of that every one of these movies that aims to emulate a popular genre of yore makes me feel like a major fucking funsucker out to ruin everyones good times

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"The Editor, a 70s Italian giallo-inspired comedy in which a one time (and one-handed) master film editor becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders."

The above synopsis sounds like my perfect film to be honest. I'm very keen on the Italian sub-genre of leather glove clad murderers, incredible soundtracks, 'interesting' plotting and much more besides. That this film is made by no-budget masters Astron-6 probably made this one of the most-anticipated movies for me in recent memory.

It lives up to internal fevered hype.

Adam Brooks plays sadsack editor Rey Ciso, a film-cutting maestro reduced to working on genre pictures after an unfortunate editing accident. Rey's psyche spirals downwards just as bodies start to pile up. Suspicion…

Are you crazy? You light some rags in the sink and expect that to fix the plumbing.
-Josephine Jardin

I had no idea what this film was when I started it. Then within minutes it started hitting me... "This seems heavily influenced by giallo films... damn this is a comedy... holy shit this is a spoof of giallo films!" Probably the best film surprise of the year.

Writers/directors/stars Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy did make a comedy, but it's also a full fledged giallo film. It was done with too much love and attention to detail to think they're anything but huge fans of the genre.

The color palette, score, exaggerated acting, dubbing, gore, exaggerated sexualization, plot holes, ect, ect...…

I find genre parody almost entirely useless, mostly because the parodies never actually resemble the thing they're making fun of (especially formally). This doesn't either, but it gets a tiny bit closer than most attempts. So it's kind of a minor miracle that I made it through the whole thing, and even chuckled a few times (particularly at a rain-soaked sex scene, briefly a pretty damn funny shot at the casual misogyny that plagues Eurotrash films). But this still doesn't really look or feel like a giallo at all. It wants very much to look and feel like SUSPIRIA, which isn't one (not to mention that almost no other giallo ever looked as good as SUSPIRIA), and it cribs whole…

This has been some month so far! lots of first times watches, and a few 5 stars! I just had to give it to this as well, it's such a perfect film (considering what it is that is). The best and probably only Giallo-Comedy/Spoof out there, and it gets everything so right.

I loved:
The bad dubbing over everything is clearly a piss take of the Italian movie making from the 70s/80s, random out of focus shots, the repeating of dialogue, characters say stupid shit all the time, the on purpose bad acting, the million references to giallo! like the tarantulas and a great line from the producer/director?, as he says the title of one of his films being "The…