KRIMI! #1 THE  INAUGURAL  ISSUE  SEP. 2025

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THE PHANTOM OF SOHO

One of the most important movies in horror film history is never talked about. The direct inspiration to the genre of Giallo, the first Rape'n'Revenge movie and the most exciting female slasher moviesof all time. A huge hit in its native Germany, it inspired producer Artur Brauner to team up with Salvatore Argento to produce "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage". Read all about it, including the the original treatment by Bryan Edgar Wallace, son of Edgar Wallace.

RIALTO LONDON

The main production house for German Krimis was RIALTO  FILM Germany. After some negative experiences with british co-productions, they opened an office in London and started to produce films there. Only one got made. What happened to the rest of the project and who was inovlved. Includes an exclusive interview with award-winning scriptwriter Allan Scott (Don't look Now) for our magazine about his time with RIALTO  London. 

BRYAN EDGAR WALLACE AND HIS SUITCASES

"Death packs a suitcase" was the 1960 inaugural novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace. What did he do until then, what happened to the actual story of the book in the two movies that Artur Brauner produced. We dive deep into those three objects.

HANS CHRISTOPH BLUMENBERG

What if we tell you that a critic-turned-director would try to revive the genre of european criminal movies by skilfully blending the old narratives with new visual expertise. Three movies were made before Hans-Christoph Blumenberg became a major producer of TV-crime shows. Read all about his Trilogy of Neo(n) Krimis. Includes an in-depth  personal interview with the director/producer himself.

DERRICK IN ITALY

The Krimi OGs all gathered around the Derrick TV-series that lasted a whopping 24 years and over 240 episodes. The Italians, though, were sceptical until Derrick became their favourite foreign series ever. How did that happen. The premier Italian film historian Giovanni Petronaci tells you this incredible story.

THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE GIALLO

The trenchcoat, the hat, the black glove, the silhuette, the bitter woman as the killer, the revenge theme. All these things make a Giallo complete. We tell the story of the iconography and how Artur Brauner defined it as early as 1962.

LADISLAZS FODOR

He once was a star who could demand hundreds of thousands of dollars for a script. The third most played playwriter of the 1930s was the Hungarian Laszlo Fodor. ("Call me Lazi," he would say). And yet, he remains an enigma. We go through the archives and his personal collection of documents to reveal the man behind many Krimi scripts.

WHAT THE WITNESS SAW BEHIND THE WALL ... AND WHAT NOT

Easily the most popular post on our review-blog was "What the Peeper saw"/DER ZEUGE HINTER DER WAND. So we decided to let the expert speak. None else than UK actor and screenwrite Mark Thompson Ashworth brings you everything - EVERYTHING about this movie....

VICE VERSA

Boris and Holger gave you a lot of movies in this issue and they were not afraid to tell you what they think of them. But what does Holger think of Boris' movies and vice versa? Get your second, educated, opinion here.