

This particular style of Italian-produced murder mystery horror- thriller film usually blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction (such as slasher violence) and eroticism (similar to the French fantastique genre), and often involves a mysterious killer whose identity is not revealed until the final act of the film. In Italian cinema, giallo ( pronounced plural gialli, from giallo, Italian for yellow) is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.

Letícia Román in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), considered by most critics to be the first giallo film

For other uses, see Giallo (disambiguation). This article is about the literature and film genre.
