Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkThis weeks DVD Tuesday pick is Mario Bavas La Ragazza che sapeva troppoThe Girl Who Knew Too Much 1963 available as part of Anchor Bays must-have Mario Bava Collection Volume 1 at least I had to have it or as a stand-alone rental Now for the why Bear with me for a moment Italian horror comes in many flavors English-style Gothic cannibal gut-crunchers extreme mondo But to my mind the high water mark of horror alItalia is the is the giallo a very particular variation on the English mystery of elimination Agatha Christies Ten Little Indians is ground zero -- a group of individuals is lured to an isolated place trapped and murdered one by one -- and the American slasher film of the 1980s is the end game In between Italian filmmakers churned out a good 15 years of variations on a theme some clever some just plain nasty and some breathtakingly bread more
