While Italian genre cinema helped father the slasher movie with its iconic giallo subgenre - born from pulpy mystery novels - ...

This list represents films set in Italy, not necessarily filmed in Italy – we all know that set designers can make a studio backlot look like the meandering streets of Venice or a Tuscany hill town.

Gleefully vulgar, the genre known as “Cinepanettone” once dominated Italy over the holidays. Italian revelers recently flocked to the alpine town where many of the films were set. By Jason Horowitz ...