While it is true that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is one of the earliest precursors to the entire slasher sub-genre, there was a direct influence the film had on cinema that eventually led to slashers ...

Once a thriving hotspot, this dilapidated 200-room hotel in the Italian Alps was the set for the 2017 remake of "Suspiria" — ...

Growing up in North America, you might assume the entirety of Italian horror movies are either proto-slasher giallo films or gory zombie flicks. But not so! While giallo owned the ’70s and zombies ...

Simone Scafidi’s Dario Argento Panico documents the great Italian horror maestro’s career through the years. A director of genre classics such as Suspiria, Opera, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Tenebrae, ...

This week’s selection is a slasher picture from Italy, circa 1987. Stage Fright is a fast-paced horror film with a surreal storyline, a dark sense of humor, unhinged characters, and some memorable ...

City Wide Fever (2026) is Josh Heaps’ micro-budget 1970s giallo homage about a film student obsessed with a lost Italian ...

Eli Roth is obsessed with Italians, and not just because he’s married to one. The famed filmmaker — who is best known for his horror catalog, which some critics dismissed as “torture porn” due to its ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...