Excellent examination of the subject, Pete!  You did a very good overview of the history of exploitation cinema, as well as highlighting Italian gore and giallo films.
To make this even more on-topic, were you aware that Tarantino wants to do a remake of Lucio Fulci’s “The Psychic” (1977) aka “Murder to the Tune of Seven Black Notes” with Bridget Fonda in the role originally portrayed by Jennifer O’Neill?
I haven’t seen this Fulci movie yet, but I definitely want to, especially as research for a giallo genre movie I’ve been writing.
Anyone seen it and can they comment?
My story was supposed to be set in the local music scene in a city on Vancouver Island where I live.  A couple of burn-out bar band musicians become amateur detectives who dig up and uncover the remains of several women victims and begin investigating the mystery of their disappearance and murder.  I put this idea on hold after news reports of real life discoveries of the remains of women being dug up at a pig farm near Vancouver.  Truth is starnger than fiction.  A little too close to home, so I’ve put the idea on ice for a while.
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