Giallo

"While Psycho was getting its success and formula ripped off all during the 60's, which I'm sure you remember first hand, there was another tradition cooking in the red sauce over in Italy's boot heel. Or maybe the leg part. This isn't geography. I'm talking about the giallo, Sir, which is a word that means yellow and a name that means trashy movie with a body count. As you can tell, a giallo is like a proto-slasher. It is to the slasher what dinosaurs are to birds. Why the giallo is super important is that it's where the camera technique was born that's basically what Carpenter would do in 1978 for Halloween. Killers in giallos don't wear masks. I mean, Sir, they do wear masks but they're hand-masks. What's a hand-mask you ask? That would be a glove. Killers in giallos all wear these black gloves. Those gloves are like that Father Death robe in Scream. They hide gender and race and body type and marriage status and tattoos and finger-count and also knuckle-hairiness ( Pamela Voorhees , ha ha). But the camera in the giallos is always looking at those gloves doing their bloody work. And because everything is limited to what those killer eyes can see, black gloves are all that are needed to keep an identity hidden as set-up for the reveal." 

My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones (2021)