TERRORS ON A RAZOR'S EDGE

<p>Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and seductive imagery - not least in the gore-splashed <em>giallo</em> genre for which compositions focused on curvaceous female figures in jeopardy juxtaposed with the iconography of sadism and violent death.</p><p><strong>Terrors On A Razor's Edge</strong> features 100 film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists created for both indigenous and international film productions presenting <em>giallo</em> <em>krimi</em> and related psycho-killer narratives from European cinema. The collection focuses on the prime years from 1960 to 1979 and is displayed with full-color full-page reproductions illustrating one of the most controversial and bloody of all horror sub-genres. <strong>Terrors On A Razor's Edge</strong> presents a vivid pictorial history of Euro-slasher cinema expressed in its most immediate and eye-catching form.</p>