Arabella l'angelo nero (Angela, the Black Angel)

Stelvio Massi might have been responsible for some great poliziesci (including the enjoyable Mark trilogy), but Arabella l'angelo nero really is a very poor giallo. Without a decent script and unable to create any kind of suspense, Massi goes all with the sleaze instead and any female character sheds her clothes within seconds of appearing on screen. Well, everybody apart from Evelyn Stewart. I always feel a bit sorry for her when I watch this. She'd been in films by Fellini and Visconti and she starred in handful of classic gialli titles, but by 1989 she was reduced to starring in this kind of shabby fare. No wonder this was one of her last films.

5 donne per l'assassino (Five Women for the Killer)

I've only seen Stelvio Massi's 5 donne per l'assassino once. It was quite a few years back and it was dubbed in German, so I can really tell you too much about the film. The poster by L. Crovato is quite cool though. One of the few gialli posters to pay homage to the genre's paperback origin.