https://vo.rs/tags/bava/Latest from the Bava desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-giallo-canon/<p>The word means yellow, after the cheap paper covers of the Mondadori crime paperbacks that gave Italy its taste for lurid murder. On screen, giallo hardened into a recipe by the late 1960s: a black-gloved killer, a witness who saw something and cannot quite decode it, a series of elaborate murders, and a solution that usually turns on a buried trauma and a misremembered image. J&amp;B whisky bottles, art-directed apartments, jazz-lounge scores, an amateur detective in over their head. The genre exported its DNA straight into the American slasher, which is why so much of it feels both foreign and familiar.</p>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000