I hate to give this such a low mark, because there were at least half a dozen times in the first half hour when I thought The Editor was about to blossom into a note-perfect giallo homage. A few brief scenes mimicked exactly the kind of bad dubbing/dialogue/acting/lighting/fashion etc of the original 70s Italian giallo horrors it’s clearly inspired by. Frustratingly however these were just teases, and the film seemed more interested in being some kind of hip underground indie-flick slasher that didn’t remind me much of anything giallo based, and it started to *seriously* drag. The lead character’s virtually comatose performance didn’t help much, and the plot soon got impossible to follow. After 45 mins I didn’t really know or care what I was watching any more.

Overall The Editor is nowhere near as bad as the absurdly boring Berberian Sound Studio (the closest modern-day comparison I can think of), but I wish they’d concentrated more on paying tribute to the classic giallo clichés instead of becoming a directionless and rather average slasher.