In the Folds of the Flesh (1970)-D:Sergio Bergonzelli with Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pier Angeli and Fernando Sancho.
Wow! This was one wacky and demented Giallo/Thriller with a plot so convoluted that it will make your head spin. Well, actually it wasn’t all that bad, it’s quite a unique film with a mixed ingrediente that consists of "a murderous family, insanity, incest, Fernando (he was the standout for me in this film) Sancho’s naked butt in an amusing moment scene taking a bubble bath ;D, black and white Nazi flashbacks with naked female prisoners in a gas chamber of some sorts and pet vultures. So, in the end with all the drama and the many crazy plot twists, I enjoyed this one for what it is.
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Giochi erotici di una famiglia per bene (1975)
Donald O’Brien is a conservative lawyer who is against divorce and thinks he has a perfect marriage. When he finds out his wife is having affair he murders her and starts having relationship with his niece and a beautiful prostitute. But then he begins to have hallucinatory visions of the dead wife. This is rather obscure giallo, imdb doesn’t even have a english title for it. There’s some stupidities in the script but also some nice twists.
Having a break, spagvemberwise and having a go on The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail. Enjoying the London and now the Greek scenery, and thinking I would like to go back to Athens soon (It’s been 30 years since).
I love these giallos cos of the cars and the locations as much as anything. 8)
In the Folds of Flesh (1970)
-Lone Gringo’s writing about this made me curious of this title. Interesting film and one of the puzzling giallo I’ve seen. I have to admit that I lost the track of plot at some point, there was so many weird twists. But it was a good one.
Thanks for posting these extra titles guys. I added em to the GCDb page.
Id like to get all Regions on the site but its tough to keep track of all the titles. Ive just been doing the US ones mainly. We do have other countries too but its not as extensive as Id like.
Giallo is this year’s spag!
I’ve watched shed-loads since Brother Caress caused my cider-tinged grey matter to get burn-out in Spagvember.
These range from the proto black and white Death on a Four-Poster to sleeze-fests like Slaughter Hotel.
Besides this unhealthy slab of Italian fare that’s been consumed over the festive season, the last two eves have been enjoyably spent in the company of a couple of Greek offerings - one of which out-sleezes anything I’ve yet seen from Italy.
Neither of director Kostas Karagiannis’ are of the whodunnit type, more the ‘are they gonna get away with it’ thrillery-types. When “it” in 1974’s Tango of Perversion includes a bit of tastefully done necrophilia amongst all the other ‘normal’ horrors - such as lesbianism, voyeurism, drug-taking, as well as the murders (of course), then it’s on deleriously deranged and dodgy ground. And when the cast are not out of their clothes, they are magnificently attired in the worst of what pre-punk seventies gave us - clashing colours, psychotic patterns, collars you could land a plane on… and that’s just the men.
There’s not one character here you could feel any real empathy or sympathy with, but they are so gloriously amoral and seedy - the users, abusers and the pathetic victims, decadently woven together by pacts, lies, and libido - a ooziness of betrayal and bodily fluids. Blimey!
And as with this other offering (which imo is slightly less seedy, but equally entertaining), The Wife Killer of 1976 vintage, we get more abundantly gratuitous, gialloesque sleeze to thrill our pants off yet again. Phew!
In a nutshell - on top of it all, besides, and beneath all these layers of tastlessness that could overwhelm, lay a couple of decent (I never thought I’d be using that word) storylines about deceit and double-cross - and despite the many bare breasts on show (and like them) there isn’t too much in the way of padding. They’re shortish films anyway (just right for post-pint viewage), and they move at a fair ol’ pace. All of the above means that they both come highly recommended!
Watched Perversion Story - One on Top of the Other (1969) wich sounds seedy as hell - but wasn’t.
Then I saw The Sister of Ursula (1978) which sounds so-so, but was self-conciously and shockingly seedy by comparison.
I gotta say I much prefered the former - extremely entertaining stuff. The latter almost threatened to develop a decent story at one point, but lost the plot amongst a tangle of suspenders and pubic hair. I suppose this was deemed very naughty back in the day, but these days nipples and a plethora of netherhair ain’t gonna make up for a dearth of narrative.
I gotta say it again that Tango of Perversion had the lot, sleeze and story, way to go El Greco!
The last one I watched was Who Saw Her Die? It isn’t a giallo masterpiece but I certainly enjoyed it. Torso is very good. I watched Baba Yaga not too long ago, as well, and found it extremely boring.
