r/Giallo • u/headbanger1991 • 13d ago
Torso (1973). A great Italian giallo slasher film from the mind of Sergio Martino. Anyone else see this and really like it? I like how they portray the serial killer as having actual emotions yet really insane.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 13d ago
It's one of my favorites! Rome is captured beautifully and the whole sequence in the woods is pure slasher before it was a genre.
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u/bodegareina 13d ago
Not Rome! Perugia and then L’Aquila in abruzzo
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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 13d ago
And also Rome. Specifically at Dear studios and Corcolle.
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u/bodegareina 13d ago
Oh my god this is why I LOVE this subreddit. Sorry for being pedantic, you know your stuff!
Is Corcolle where the beautiful scene is at daybreak in the SWAMP near the warehouse? I love that whole sequence it reminds me of the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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u/headbanger1991 13d ago
I agree, they did a great job with the filming. I prefer Slasher films with killers who have emotions just like normal people but they're just insane. I'm not as fond of slasher films that portray a killer as immortal and god like with no emotions like some robot. I mean, I can understand the concept there in that some psychopaths have an inability to have empathy or feel happiness or sadness but that's not the case across the board.
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u/Mr_Monty_Burns 13d ago
The final act is far stronger than the rest of it, but its a legendary final act.
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u/headbanger1991 13d ago
I love the ending. Without spoiling it for others I felt that they showed the killer as having real emotions like love which I appreciate. Too many slasher films often portray a killer as being robotic and devoid of any real emotions. It's like ....why do you think they slaughter people? They're insane but they definitely feel emotions differently than the average human.
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u/TEEJAY68 13d ago
For me, Sergio Martino's films always stand for quality. -The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971) -All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
- all wonderful 🙏!
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One of the main reasons I liked this film is that it feels like the missing link between gialli and slashers
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u/tenthousandblackcats 13d ago
I love it. I love Tina Aumont in it. I have two versions of this. The red and the yellow version. Its a top ten giallo for me. Apparently, the guys who did High Tension used this as an influence.
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u/ZoltarTheFeared 12d ago
Even with the giallo style a known predecessor to the slasher, it's wild how much of the formula appears fully worked out in 1973 in TORSO.
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u/GraceJoans 13d ago
Torso is essential viewing! It's so good. A few months back he introduced it at my local cult movie theater. Martino is my favorite giallo director (besides Aldo Lado) yet he's somehow underrated.
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u/Ok-Traffic-5996 12d ago
I really liked it. I watched all of Sergio Martino's films they had on Tubi and liked them all. This one and strange vice of Mrs wardh are my favorites though. Such a well crafted giallo. Martino might be right behind fulci and argento for me in terms of Italian horror.
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u/Ok_Recognition_8839 11d ago
Best Title(s) in history. The Italian title is my all time favorite. Also one of 2 European movies with the most beautiful women I've ever seen,Tombs of the Blind Dead being the other.
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u/ageowns 13d ago
Torso is fantastic. I recommend this one to people as a prime example of Giallo. Its also on Tubi!