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I won't be able to post anything tomorrow, so I'll leave you with the two alternate posters for Tonino Ricci's Un Omicidio perfetto a termine di legge until tuesday. Although made after "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", the film has far more in common with Lenzi's Caroll Baker thrillers, than the Argento/Martino school of gialli. The film starts off fairly slowly, but picks up after about 45 minutes and the last 30 minutes, which contains quite a few twists & turns, are really quite good. The ending leaves a few too many unanswered questions and loose ends for my liking, but it's an entertaining thriller. Good performance by the always watchable Leroy. Elga Andersen and Rosana Yanni provides some welcome eye-candy, but Rassimov criminally underused and more or less wasted in his role. 
The second entry in Dallamano's “schoolgirls in peril” trilogy. Compared to Solange there's a relative lack of giallo elements and the emphasis is more on police work, but this giallo/poliziesco hybrid is still a great film. The score by Stelvio Cipriani is superb and desperately needs a CD release. The recent R2 Koch release is by far the best way to enjoy the film. Pick it up at Xploited Cinema. Two locandine available and they both have more of a poliziesco feel rather than a giallo one.
Jonny from lovelockandload calls Alberto De Martino's L'Uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio an "utter snoozer" and I can't say I disagree. Quite like the poster though. I'm not a 100% sure, but I'd say the poster below is from a late 70's re-release since feels like it aims for the poliziesco crowd rather than going for the traditional giallo estehetic.
The opening minutes of Armando Crispino's Macchie solari are outstanding. Unfortunately the rest of the film can't quite match the intensity of the montage of suicides and the scenes with Mimsy Farmer in the morgue. It's still an atmospheric and enjoyable (if slightly overlong) giallo with fine performances by Mimsy and Ray Lovelock. There are a few great set-pieces (including a very disturbing sequence at a crime museum). The creepy, atonal score by Morricone fits prefectly and is a deserving candidate for the Digitmovies treatment. No info on the poster artist.
I love Renato Casaro's beautiful artwork for Al Tropico del cancro and the poster art is sure to bring back memories of the great dream sequence for anybody who's seen the film. The directorial duo Lomi and Mulargia takes full advantage of the Haitian locations and they don't waste any chance to incorporate some mondo-style footage into the proceedings. We get a cock-fighting, voodoo rituals and an alleged wedding ritual. The film itself is a decent enough giallo starring Anita Strindberg, Anthony Steffen (who also co-wrote the script), Gabriele Tinti and Umberto Raho.
Worth seeking out if you're casual giallo fan, but a must see if you're a fan of Anita Strindberg.
I don't have many Mario Bava posters since they tend to be very expensive, but I just had to have this 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto locandina. It's very difficult to resist a poster that prominently features Edwige Fenech in a bikini.
Update 090111: Added the beautiful alternate locandina with artwork by Rodolfo Gasparri.
Flavio Mogherini's La Ragazza dal pigiama giallo is an unusual giallo. Lacking many of the elements normally associated with the genre and one of the few gialli loosely based on a real murder (the only other one that springs to mind at the moment is Camillo Teti's L'Assassino è ancora tra noi). The story unfolds through extensive use of flashbacks as we follow both through Inspector Thompson's (Ray Milland) investigation and the events leading up to the murder of the gorgeous Glenda (Dalila di Lazzaro). A very different but worthwhile effort.
This locandina is one of my personal favourites. Like a lot of people, I rate Lucio Fulci's Una Lucertola con la pelle di donna as one of the best gialli ever made. Fulci provides a tight, suspenseful atmosphere. There are several standout sequences, but I’ve always liked dream sequences in euro cult films and the ones here are fantastic. An outstanding cast featuring Florinda Bolkan, Leo Gann, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel and Anita Strindberg. And let's not forget the excellent soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any info on who designed the poster.
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