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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys because we’re talking 1973’s Torso and 1982’s Pieces.

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We start by talking about some of the stuff involving horror recently. We talk about James Wan’s Malignant at length, and Liam talks about the recent episode of Marvel’s What If? that was based on the Marvel Zombies storyline, and we discuss Nia DiCosta’s Candyman.

We start with Torso. Justin talks about how this film really nails down everything good about giallo films, in that it embodies much of what has come to be associated with the genre.

We give a brief background on the director Sergio Martino and the giallo genre, and how Italian cinema tended undergo different trends and cycles. We talk about despite being tame by today’s standards, some of the violence in the film must’ve been quite upsetting at the time of its release.

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