The House With Laughing Windows (La Casa dalle finestre che ridono)

Opting for the rural backdrop rather than cosmopolitan, The House with Laughing Windows lives deliciously within confines of the folk horror milieu, lacking the well documented motifs so commonly attributed to the giallo in favor of menacingly unstoppable…

Ian West

Something about this film just captivated me even though it plays in the cliche Italian sandbox of mystery murders, it winds up capturing this small town folk horror feel that surrounds a dead artists fresco in a church that needs to be touched up in which we immediately…

pirateneckbeard

Spooktober IV: Morte all'italiana The movie in which they promise windows that laugh, but you instead have them screeching. A film in which the filthy, yellowish cinematography, which appears to some (Callie) to be vomit, really helps much of the terror become more…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

A Quiet Place in the Country. Creepy slow burn isolated town atmos really elevate this to one of the genres best offerings... and it needs to be seen more because House of Laughing Windows is an insane slice of rural giallo horror. The incredible opening is perfectly…

Ian West

This extraordinary Giallo begins with a disturbing montage; torture bathed in sepia, overlaid with creeping piano and a rasping voiceover speaking about colours and purification. We then make a jarring switch to broad daylight where we are introduced a young art restorer…

Slig001

What a well-constructed build up - we open with intensity and disturbing imagery, cool down with a quiet intro that still inserts a bit of mystery, then builds back up, spiking here and there as pieces of the story are revealed, until we hit the full-scale horrors as the…

Sally Jane Black

Pick Your Poison Challenge 2025 Day 1: Something Old 👵🏽 Struggling artist Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) is commissioned to restore a fresco in a church in a small rural town. The artwork depicts the brutally violent death of St. Sebastian. Stefano soon learns that the…

Rizki

That almost completely silent sequence exploring the horribly wide and empty attic, with the unremarked upon swinging sack, and that wretched audiotape of the painter ranting about death and purity and blood and colour: one of the scariest sequences in any horror movie,…

Trevor Henderson

#SlasherSaturday Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), an art restorer, was hired to work on a fresco in a small, decaying Italian village. The fresco, depicting the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, is the work of a mysterious local painter, Legnani, who was notorious for his macabre…

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