To a lot of film fans (although certainly not Argento fans) the term 'giallo' will like cause some confusion. 'Giallo' is Italian for yellow, the colour of the covers that were given to the crime novels of the likes of Edgar Wallace and Agatha Christie. That term was then adopted for a serious of Italian films that incorporated detective/thriller/horror elements. These films were popularised, in the main, by Dario Argento. So who better than to make a giallo called Giallo about a killer named, erm, Giallo? Certainly not Dario Argento, at least not by the time 2009 rolled around. Such a project would have been eagerly-anticipated in the seventies, eighties and into the mid-90s, but by the late 2000s Argento had, sadly, lost it. Giallo is a grim film, full of sleaze and gore. It is not akin to Argento's well-crafted seventies and eighties films, that's for sure. The most interesting thing about Giallo happened off-camera, when star Adrien Brody sued the producers for unpaid wages.
