Giallo (2009 film)

Known only as "Yellow" ("Giallo" in Italian), he kidnaps beautiful foreign women in his unlicensed taxi cab.

Enzo receives a phone call from a fellow officer, who finds the body of an Asian woman outside a church near a fountain.

Enzo and Linda start to look for a translator, who tells them that the girl was praying Buddha and then repeated "yellow."

Enzo also tells Linda that Giallo might be a pattern killer who hates beautiful women due to his deformity.

An origin story shows that Giallo's mother was a prostitute who gave her son up for adoption at a church, where orphaned kids started to bully him.

In November 2007, Dario Argento signed on to direct Yellow, written by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, a "satirical homage" to the giallo genre.

[7] By April 2008, Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Elsa Pataky joined the cast, as Liotta, Asia Argento, and Gallo were no longer involved.

"[17] In January 2010, in an interview with Argento, the director claimed the film was supposedly blacklisted in America after failing to acquire distribution.

Fangoria gave the film a 1/4 rating, writing, "this is a deeply disappointing work from a director who seems to be yellowing with age, his vision progressively jaundicing.

"[19] Mark Kermode called it a "depressingly sleazy shocker" that "descends rapidly into self-pastiche, with even the director's trademark gliding camera moves and elegant architectural framings failing to raise the murky tone.

"[20] Total Film wrote, "this Turin-based turkey has more in common with bargain-basement torture porn than the classy slashers that made Argento's name.