Popular reviews

• 

  Review by single white femalien ★★ 31

  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

  which…

• 

  Review by 1313: Tony the Terror🌨️ ★★★★½ 6

  I spent all day in root canal recovery and then finally got a chance to watch this with Chris and yeah, it’s just as great as he promised it would be!

  This was bananas in the best way, just full of frankly brilliant wtf moments that I am always here for. I loved all the references and homages to specific giallos. Paz de la Huerta can get it huh?

  The version we watched on Tubi May have been edited so I’m going to check out the version on my library streaming service to see if I missed anything.

  Bananameter: 🍌 seriously pick a scene 🍌

• 

  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 1

  "The way you edit with your wooden fingers... it's art" -Assistant,
  AND
  "Don't talk to me, I could arrest you for that" - The cop,

  - Horror Hunt #24 (5/30): boxd.it/5wPL8

  Homage, homage, homage... oh and Udo Kier!

  The Editor is a Canadian giallo that takes great care in replicating the music, color, and editing choices of the 1970s Italian movement. The story is one of a master film editor working in a 1970s italian film studio that is below his qualification level. When a series of murders begin to happen the editor becomes a chief suspect in the case. The vibe is surreal and weird as this is a comedy with intense horror. Along these lines I suppose it…

• 

  Review by matt lynch ★★ 4

  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…

• 

  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★★ 10

  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...…

• 

  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 3

  To cut a long story short: Giallo tropes, wooden fingers, neon blood.

• 

  Review by c h r i s 🍒 ★★★★★ 14

  “A young Donald Sutherland.”

  I’m confident in calling this a pure cinematic masterpiece. I don’t care!
  It’s pretty damn gutsy, plays by all the rules & everything about it works from the hilarious dubbing, ultraviolet lighting, intense score, nonstop kills, lots & lots of boobs! etc... 

  There are so many references to Italian horror flicks & giallos that there’s no way to keep count...but I did try and I most definitely failed.
  Anyway it’s just damn entertaining and the kills are nonstop with some top notch gore effects, which always make for a more entertaining watch. 
  I also have a soft spot for Paz De La Huerta considering everyone & their mother say we look alike. I don’t see it but I’m not really…

• 

  Review by Ian West ★★★½ 9

  I can’t say I’ve clicked with Astron-6 stuff outside of Fathers Day (sorta) and this movie, but it really does warm my heart that there isn’t a character named edwige in this.

• 

  Review by haley ★★★½ 1

  this is something i may have to force my friends to watch during a night of drinking. it's genuinely funny, the gore is outstanding, and the plot doesn't make much sense but that just added to the fun. i just know that watching this with a group would make for a good time.

• 

  Review by Jim Drew ★★★★★ 1

  "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…

• 

  Review by NotAnnaFaris 💔🏴‍☠️💔 ★★★½ 10

  "Let me guess. You're out here thinking of killing yourself, too, huh? Well let's just say we saved each other then."

  #SlasherSaturday
  Thx for this hilarious, for-the-fans slasher selection, M@!! I had a lot of fun with this ❤️🤗❤️

  The Editor does for Giallo & Giallo-esque cinema what I thought Scary Movie did for Scream (& I Know What You Did Last Summer, & The Ring, & The Blair Witch Project) ...when I was 15, & didn't know better 😅

  At the same time, this film is nothing like that millennium spoof. Mostly because it employs artistry & intellect into the production itself. It succeeds at mocking the style's ridiculousness while declaring an undying love for it & its fans.

  While I haven't seen a ton…

• 

  Review by Sarah Jane 🔪 ★★★ 4

  Where in the hell was the bottle of J&B? I'm calling bullshit here. You cannot have a parody of a giallo movie without showing some J&B.

  I'm docking this a half of star for this egregious error.