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Lost in the shuffle of a decade dominated by garish and often childish extremes, The Ruins remains an underappreciated example of pacing, keeping the gore powder dry for maximal effect, and knowing when to look away.#TheRuins #JenaMalone #killervines

Suspiria retold with bugs and an unhinged final act, Phenomena delivers in some brilliant flashes of atmosphere what it misses in cohesiveness. #giallo #giallomonth #phenomena #argento #jenniferconnelly

Fraught with tension and foreboding, Avati's Windows stands in contrast to our other gialli this month. Taking place in a dying, rural village, its treatment of social decay has an organic feel to it that seems at first far outside the aesthetic of the main run of gialli, even as it makes use of all the tropes and framework in ways that somehow still feel surprising. And for all that, we still get a strange manservant.#giallo #giallomonth #housewithlaughingwindows #avati #manservantlidio

By turns fun, trashy, nonsensical, and beautiful, Lizard is everything terrible and wonderful about Fulci in one bright, crazy package. #Fulci #Lizardinawomansskin #Giallomonth #Hippies #redheads

Our first Giallo Month kicks off with the Bava classic.#Giallomonth #Bloodandblacklace #Bava

A worthy sequel, and a great use of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Time will tell if this stands up to rewatch as well as its predecessor, but all signs point to yes. Bonus points for the Scarface joke running through from the original installment.#readyornot #readyornot2 #hereicome #hideandseek #scarface

One day, we’ll find out this was based on a true story. The eminently rewatchable, stimulant-addled cousin of You're Next absolutely never disappoints. #readyornot #lebail #inlaws

Clue! she wrote, in a fun cozy mystery that suffers here by being stuck in our minds between The Menu and Ready or Not. It’s fine. It’s fine. #KnivesOut #Beaksbloody