Terrors on a Razor's Edge

100 Giallo & Krimi Film Posters From Italy (book in English)

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by G.H. Janus

Type

Photos

Subject

On Films > Posters

Keywords

giallo, posters

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Bonefyre Books

Collection

(non-series)

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 112 pages
8 x 10 ¼ inches (20 x 26 cm)

ISBN

978-1-8383595-7-7

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Book Presentation:
Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and seductive imagery - not least in the gore-splashed giallo genre, for which compositions focused on curvaceous female figures in jeopardy juxtaposed with the iconography of sadism and violent death.

Terrors On A Razor's Edge features 100 film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, created for both indigenous and international film productions presenting giallo, krimi and related psycho-killer narratives from European cinema. The collection focuses on the prime years from 1960 to 1979, and is displayed with full-color, full-page reproductions, illustrating one of the most controversial and bloody of all horror sub-genres. Terrors On A Razor's Edge presents a vivid pictorial history of Euro-slasher cinema expressed in its most immediate and eye-catching form.