'Giallo' (2009) – Dario Argento.

Regarded by some, Dario Argento fans as being one of the Italian maestro's more creditable latter day efforts,'Giallo' has nothing to match the J&B-fuelled pyrotechnics of 'Opera' or 'Tenebrae', being a rather sedate police procedural, grimly enlivened by visceral splashes of gore and a memorably malign killer! A stolid, rather than flamboyant example of Argento's lurid art, while the workmanlike screenplay is competent, it pointedly lacks the hyperbolic glamour of, Ernesto Gestaldi's black-gloved bellicosity! Insular, basement-dwelling cop, Enzo Alvolfi (Adrian Brody) is a maverick profiler with a dark history, a solitary, inscrutable figure, whose macabre talent for tracking depraved serial killers is greatly tested after the multiple discoveries of Giallo's savagely mutilated female victims. 

The picturesque streets of Turin are the deadly hunting grounds of elusive maniac, Giallo (Byron Diedra) a jaundiced, lantern jawed, cab driving kook with a sadistic kink for gleefully torturing, and cruelly disfiguring exceptionally beautiful young women. After he kidnaps stunning model, Celine (Elsa Pataky) her distraught sister, Linda (Emmanuelle Seigner) and the brooding, Enzo are sinisterly swept up in the perverse, flesh-flaying frenzy of, Celine's grotesque-looking tormentor. Giallo's strengths are Turin's aesthetic beauty, Argento's fluid, voyeuristic camera, Adrian Brody and, Emmanuelle Seigner's fine performances, and the ailing psychopath's sordid modus operandi is not easily forgotten! Yet again, I feel many 'critics' were unduly harsh in their condemnation, granted, far from classic, Argento's sleek 'Giallo' remains a stylish, engagingly mean spirited slasher worthy of investigation.