In our hasty removal of Plagiarism, somehow our site bottomed out. We will be working to fix this as soon as possible. If you our a new visitor to our site, please know that it is typically more badass than this. These colors look like my grandma made the site.
As of tommorow, October 1st, The DAILY part of Daily Tourniquet will begin to mean something again. I know its been a tough month guys and I promise things are going to be hitting more of a state of normalcy from now on.
In other insane craziness, we here at DT would like to official issue an apology to James Wood. On the 24th of Semptember we published a story that plagerized Mr. Wood’s story “The Face of the Dummy” unknowingly, and we would like to offer our deepest apologies to Mr. James Wood. Sadly, we weren’t the only ones dooped. One of our own contributors, Angel Zapata, really did his homework on this one and exposed the story. Check out his whole blog post here http://arageofangel.blogspot.com/2009/09/ive-been-plagiarizedand-im-not-alone.html
[A couple of juicy spoilers await you. You will never forgive me.]
What is up with the severe faces of giallo actresses? I won’t go so far as to call them harsh but I’m noticing a trend with these women. Giallo cinema in Italy was calling for a type of dichotomous woman: one with hard features but who could also be as delicate as a flower and who is slender yet voluptuous. These lovely ladies all seem to have striking features that could cut right through the screen and Ida Galli certainly fits that bill. With hypnotic eyes and pouty full lips, Galli can look impossibly cool or completely terrified at the drop of a hat.
Hailing from Sestola, Italy, Galli, usually credited as Evelyn Stewart, is all over the genre map with credits in peplum (sword and sandal epics), spaghetti westerns, police and spy thrillers, and horror. In gialli, she usually plays supporting characters that either disappear before the end of the film or get killed. Romano Scavolini (Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) did correct this grievous error and directed Galli in the starring role in Spirits of Death, a meandering but intriguing giallo. In it, she plays Mariale, a woman tormented by the memory of her father gunning down her adulterous mother. Mariale gathers together all of her scuzzy friends and an old flame (played by Ivan Rassimov) to slaughter them all and keep her date with destiny.
Ida Galli dies most spectacularly in The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail. In the film, she plays Lisa Baumer, an adulterous skeez who gets a million bucks when her husband dies in an airline disaster. Director Sergio Martino lets us believe that Lisa is the focus of the film but when she’s trying to make off with the insurance money, the killer breaks into her hotel room and slices her up most unkindly. For an excellent non-giallo role, check out Galli in the Spanish/Italian horror flick Maniac Mansion.
Ida Galli’s Giallo Filmography
1968 – The Sweet Body of Deborah
1969 - Strada Senza Uscità AKA Dead End*
1970 – The Weekend Murders
1971 – The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971 – The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail
1972 – Knife of Ice
1972 – Spirits of Death
1975 – Footprints
1977 – The Psychic AKA Seven Notes in Black
1989 – Black Angel
*(This may or may not be a giallo.)
Sources
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302837/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Galli
Clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-BpI8LWQ18
Richard Glenn Schmidt is owner and operator of Doomed Moviethon and Cinema Somnambulist.
Doomed Moviethon – http://doomedmoviethon.com
Cinema Somnambulist – http://doomedmoviethon.blogspot.com
Powered by WordPress