Giallo (film)
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| Directed by | Dario Argento |
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Adrien Brody Rafael Primorac Richard Rionda Del Castro Executive producer: Claudio Argento Donald A. Barton Luis de Val Billy Dietrich Patricia Eberle Oscar Generale Nesim Hason Lisa Lambert Martin McCourt David Milner Simona Politi |
| Written by | Jim Agnew Sean Keller Dario Argento |
| Starring | Adrien Brody Emmanuelle Seigner Elsa Pataky |
| Music by | Marco Werba |
| Edited by | Roberto Silvi |
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Giallo Production
Footprint Investment Fund Media Films Opera Film Produzione |
| Distributed by | Hannibal Pictures |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States United Kingdom Spain Italy |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $32,655 |
Giallo is a 2009 Italian-American-British horror-giallo film co-written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner and Elsa Pataky.
The film was poorly received at the time of its release, and is currently and arguably most-known for Brody's lawsuit against the film for not having been paid rather than the movie itself.
Turin, Italy: French flight attendant Linda and Italian-American detective Enzo Avolfi team up to find Linda's younger sister Celine. Celine, a model, has been abducted by a serial killer. Known only as "Yellow" ("Giallo" in Italian) he kidnaps beautiful foreign women in his unlicensed taxi cab. After drugging them, the killer proceeds to mutilate and finally murder them. He photographs his deeds so that the photos may grant him personal sexual gratification.
Enzo receives a phone call from a fellow officer, who finds the body of an Asian woman outside a church near a fountain. They find out she's still alive, and starts to speak in Japanese. Enzo and Linda start to look for a translator, who tells them that the girl was praying Buddha and then repeated "yellow". They visit the morgue, where Linda realizes that the killer's face could be yellow, and the coroner tells Enzo that yellow skin is symptom of liver disease, so the killer might be in the waiting list for a new liver.
They go to hospital and find Giallo but he escapes. Enzo finds out his name is Flavio Volpe and gets his address. Giallo starts to torture Celine by cutting one of her fingers when starts to bad-mouth him. Enzo breaks into Giallo's apartment, but finds it empty and full of torture devices.
Enzo tells Linda why he became a policeman: long ago, Enzo, who was 10, witnessed his mother being murdered by a local butcher, whom she owed money to. 5 years later, Enzo kills the butcher in his own shop, while Inspector Mori knew why he did it. Mori took him in as if he were his own son. Enzo had kept the knife he used to kill the butcher as a reminder of how he became a cop. Enzo also tells Linda that Giallo might be a pattern killer who hates beautiful women, due to his deformity.
Over the course of the film, Enzo and Linda find more victims and clues as to who the killer is, and why he tortures them. An origin story shows that Giallo's mother was a prostitute that gave her son up for adoption at a church, where orphaned kids started to bully him. Celine tries to escape from Giallo, but gets captured. Just when he was about to strangle her, Celine tells him she's rich and will reward him with money.
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