In past decades, only the most hardcore of horror fans could look at a film and recognize it as a giallo, a stylized, Italian cinematic precursor to the slasher film. While classic giallos (gialli) ...

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 ...