Brand new factory sealed dvd is in French with English subtitles. For the un-initiated "Giallo" is the Italian word for yellow and refers to the seedy murder mystery detective novels that had yellow covers. These were used as the basis for countless gory, sleezy, Euro-trash murder mystery movies made famous by directors like Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and Lucio Fulci.

When the movie begins, Dan returns home from a business trip to his fancy art-deco apartment building in Brussels. He finds his wife missing with no signs of a break-in or struggle and no help from the police. Dan's search for answers leads him down a rabbit hole.

He starts exploring the building and winds up visiting a widow, her face obscured behind some dark shadows, who lives on the top floor only to learn from her that she too has recently lost a spouse under equally mysterious circumstances. From here he continues to explore the building and interact with its denizens, but as he does, the mystery only becomes more complex until we have to wonder if Dan is as sane as we first believed him to be.

The film uses architecture as a framing device and so too does it use the building itself to foreshadow events that take place later in the film (a nod to Argento). The visuals in this regard, pull us, along with Dan, deeper into the building and the secrets that it holds and it's here, rather than shots of a black gloved killer (though we get one) stalking dimly lit hallways, that the picture finds its suspense.

The visuals are very compelling with its hypnotic use of color, occasional black & white, bizarre compositions and set designs. The film also uses a fair amount of nudity in interesting and abstract ways in what serves as an homage to the sex and violence pictures that inspired it and as a way of highlighting and contrasting the curves of the central location with that of the female form. Male nudity is doled out in similar ways, these scenes are just as artistically important as the women and breaking genre stereotypes.

Displays of fairly strong violence are used in similar ways, with certain murder pieces tying into the bigger picture both stylistically and thematically throughout the film. Again, the movie plays against type here by featuring just as many male victims as female. A minor point, but it kind of stood out in this day and age. All of this plays against a soundtrack made up of cues taken from the vintage European thrillers that inspired it. This works for the movie in that it fits the content perfectly.