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"Jammin' Me" - the song
original working title "So Sweet To Kiss, So Hard To Kill"
on any streaming service?
My kinda movie
Any fans of these W.A.V.E. productions movies here?
but what does W.A.V.E. stand for?
Escape From Hell (1980) + Hotel Paradise (1980) = Savage Island (1985)
"No Wake, Ambrosia" segment
"God Of Death" segment
Scene in this trailer - what segment is it from?
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I re-watched this today while fully awake and it all mostly makes sense. Still not near my favorite Sergio Martino by a long shot, but I liked it a little better and can see why some like it. Germi is a pretty cool cop character.
One thing that confused me was the scene where Germi and the two inept cops go to visit an older man for information about one of the dead girls. In the subs for the Italian audio, he talks about "when I lost Marissa's mother..." leading one to think he is Marissa's father or at least related to her. But it would make much more sense if he is the father of Floriana (the girl with the long dark hair who got shot by Menga). And in fact the pictures on the table that Germi looks at both show her, not Marissa. We get more info later that Marissa is the niece of the ultimate baddie, Pesce. The picture that Germi picks up shows three girls - Gloria, Floriana and another girl who's face isn't shown clearly. But she has straight hair, not the curly hair that Marissa is shown with. And there is another picture on the table of just Floriana. So it seems like they are in the home of the father of Floriana. Was it an error in the subtitle? Why was the grieving man talking about Marissa and Marissa's mother?
Doh! I've seen Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. Why did I forget that?
Well, I'm looking at the very soon to be released UHD/blu-ray sets from Severin which are Vixens!, Supervixens and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens, so it's likely going to be one of those.
Never having seen a Russ Meyer movie, I'm curious and would like to. Does he favor natural women (no implants)? One thing I really can't stand is fake tits, especially if it's really obvious. Any size is great with me as long as they're real.
This was an odd one. I was too tired for part of it and need to re-watch, but it wasn't grabbing me. Other than the opening scene, it didn't seem like a giallo at all, definitely the poliziotteschi variety. Opening with the brutal kill, but then changing to the goofy tone with goofy music made it hard for me to get into. I've generally not taken to the Italian police procedurals but will give some a chance now and then. This story is very urban, and I miss the castles, dress styles and other trappings of the giallo and gothic horror movies.
Maybe it's a mark of how tired I was, but I was confused for the longest time, thinking the killer from the open was the same person as Claudio Cassinelli's character Germi. The shootout on a rollercoaster was cool, don't think I'd seen that before. But the running gags with Germi's glasses or the car door falling off, and then the music which alternated between some funky Starsky & Hutch style music or then the light comedic jaunt just didn't involve me. A lot of the movie seemed designed to get big laughs from a theater audience. Which is odd when the tone of the opening few minutes is anything but funny.
I just watched that S2 episode "The Thing From The Grave" with Miguel and Terry Hatcher. I love Miquel from Twin Peaks and Robocop. He was always a great a-hole.
It's funny that someone would watch the whole movie and not realize that's Lord Cunningham (Anthony Steffen), the main character. The sequence ends showing the plaque with the name of the institution and Dr. Richard Timbarlane's name, who is the doctor that appears throughout the movie and talks about Cunningham having been institutionalized. It is clearly earlier in time, maybe shortly after his wife's death, and now he's out and picking up redheaded prostitutes that remind him of Evelyn.
I liked that opening sequence for the shot in the mossy overgrown amphitheater where you see Cunningham come over the edge and then the pursuing figures come up on the sides and start to come down after him. Nice visual composition.
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I didn't really think the fact his wife had an affair was ever in doubt. Since that information comes from Dr. Timberlane who it turns out is on the up and up, it seems safe to say the sequence of events he describes (Chamberlain wants to divorce Evelyn after finding out she had an affair, she gets pregnant against advice to try and keep him from leaving her, and dies in childbirth) is all true. And Lord Armstrong during his episodes seems to recall that he caught her and her lover in the garden. So I think that is all true.
We only actually know of one prostitute he kills, the first girl Polly (Maria Teresa Toffano), as the second supposed kill turns out not to have happened. But maybe he's been doing it for awhile. It is still an interesting aspect that he's presented as doing this and at the end of the movie is another victim.
The movie is fun, though its not exactly tightly paced and does seem a bit slow. I enjoyed the visual aspects - the beautiful women, the castle and interior with those great large paintings and murals, the quintet of maids with identical blonde curly perms, etc. And Erika Blanc's fantastic sexy rising from the casket striptease! Also have to like the kill of Aunt Agatha to then have her body eaten up in the pen of foxes.
Tinto had an eye, that's for sure!
Why the hell isn't this movie on blu-ray in the US?
I highly recommend this blu-ray. They did a region A release as well. The Arrow looks great, has the better Italian audio, and the special features are nice. I especially liked the interviews with Erika Blanc. She's pretty funny with her stories making fun of Anthony Steffen being so vain, and the talking about the American collector offering a large sum of money for the thigh high boots she wore in the movie.
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