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On this episode of the podcast, venturing into giallo territory with Knife of Ice.
Il coltello di ghiaccio, as it’s also known, is directed by site favorite Umberto Lenzi, who gifted us Nightmare City, Cannibal Ferox and many others.
In this one, there’s the conceit of a mute character, a woman who is traumatized by the death of her parents in a train crash and who cannot speak at all as a result. Which makes for a nifty, albeit silly, plot device. No matter! In a Spanish hillside town, a black gloved assailant is laying waste to the townsfolk. And cops need to investigate, in this fun, spirited who done it.
Imagine being trapped in an underground parking garage with some lunatic? Horror movies, of course, exploit fears of all stripes. And for women, particularly, clutching keys in the dark trying to find your car…well, that’s what director Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) has envisioned and positioned his horror film around in P2.
On this week’s podcast, Hostel, part of a polarizing movement of horror that came to prominence in the mid 2000s with the likes of Saw et al.