So-so Giallo, regularly mounted with a heinous criminal at large committing astonishing murders . A little girl is cruelly killed in France, sometime later, another kid is also murdered in Venice, Italy . She is daughter of a notorious sculptor, George Lazenby. Later on, the parents, the well-known sculptor and his separared wife, Anita Strindberg, begin investigating and soon encounter some twisted clues thoughout streets, mansions and slums of Venice. Along the way, more and more killed corpses go on appearing, as the body-count keeps rising, as the series killer begins butchering all those who know about his sinister activities. There are various suspicious people. Who's the Killer?....
An acceptable but disjointed Giallo with thrills, chills, high body-count , nudism, confusing plot, gory effects, and a lot twists and turns. Ordinary Gialli with its usual elements : a murderer with gloves, barroque style, sadistic and ritualized ominous killings, unsettling and disturbing scenarios as interior as exterior. It results to be a twisted and complex Giallo based on a creepy story with script from Francisco Barilli and director Aldo Lado himself. The main interest resides in finding out the murderer on loose and watching the non-sense crimes, as well as seeing the surprising faces of the victims being killed and their bellies being ripped open with a knife. Starring the skinny George Lazenby, ex-007, along with Anita Strindberg, a Scandinavian actress regular on Italian Giallos , both of whom give mediocre interpretations. They are well accompanied by some Italian actors, usual in B-films, such as Adolfo Celi of Thunderball , Rosemarie De Lindt and the beautiful Dominique Boschero, habitual in Peplum and Spaghetti Western.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo, showing splendidly palaces, houses , streets, bridges, cannels, and docks from Venice. Special mention for the classy and prolific composer Ennio Morricone, he composes a really frightening and eerie soundtrack, especially when assassinations happen. The motion picture was professional but regularly written and directed by Aldo Lado. He is a good writer and filmmaker who has directed a few films with great casts . His first film was a giallo titled The short night of the butterflies or Paralysed or Malastrana with ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel. After directing the extremely violent : Last stop in night train. Following other movies with not much success such as : La cosa buffa, La disubbidienza, La cugina and Il nocturno di Chopin. Aldo Lado even made a Scifi movie with international cast titled The Humanoid. Rating : 5.5/10. Acceptable and passable giallo that will appeal to Italian Thriller aficionados.
An acceptable but disjointed Giallo with thrills, chills, high body-count , nudism, confusing plot, gory effects, and a lot twists and turns. Ordinary Gialli with its usual elements : a murderer with gloves, barroque style, sadistic and ritualized ominous killings, unsettling and disturbing scenarios as interior as exterior. It results to be a twisted and complex Giallo based on a creepy story with script from Francisco Barilli and director Aldo Lado himself. The main interest resides in finding out the murderer on loose and watching the non-sense crimes, as well as seeing the surprising faces of the victims being killed and their bellies being ripped open with a knife. Starring the skinny George Lazenby, ex-007, along with Anita Strindberg, a Scandinavian actress regular on Italian Giallos , both of whom give mediocre interpretations. They are well accompanied by some Italian actors, usual in B-films, such as Adolfo Celi of Thunderball , Rosemarie De Lindt and the beautiful Dominique Boschero, habitual in Peplum and Spaghetti Western.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo, showing splendidly palaces, houses , streets, bridges, cannels, and docks from Venice. Special mention for the classy and prolific composer Ennio Morricone, he composes a really frightening and eerie soundtrack, especially when assassinations happen. The motion picture was professional but regularly written and directed by Aldo Lado. He is a good writer and filmmaker who has directed a few films with great casts . His first film was a giallo titled The short night of the butterflies or Paralysed or Malastrana with ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel. After directing the extremely violent : Last stop in night train. Following other movies with not much success such as : La cosa buffa, La disubbidienza, La cugina and Il nocturno di Chopin. Aldo Lado even made a Scifi movie with international cast titled The Humanoid. Rating : 5.5/10. Acceptable and passable giallo that will appeal to Italian Thriller aficionados.