All the Colors of the Dark
All the Colors of the Dark is a 1972 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Sergio Martino, running 95 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Sergio Martino
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Day of the Maniac · Demons of the Dead · All the Colors of the Dark · They're Coming to Get You · All the Colours of the Dark
Defined in the glossary: Giallo
Satanic paranoia in Swinging London. Edwige Fenech is excellent.
Martino and Edwige Fenech make a giallo that keeps sliding into satanic hallucination, and the line between paranoia and conspiracy is never quite drawn. A traumatised woman in Swinging London is drawn into a black-magic cult, or imagines she is, and the film is happy to leave you unsure.
Fenech is the reason to watch, and Martino shoots her nightmares with a woozy zoom-heavy style that dates the film in the best way. The Rosemary's Baby influence is on the surface, but the mood is entirely its own.
Less a mystery than a bad dream you cannot wake from.
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Written about
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
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