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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Troubled rich orphan Frank Wyler (a solid and convincing performance by Kieran Canter) can't get over the sudden tragic death of his fiancé Anna (lovely blonde Cinzia Monreale). Frank digs up Anna's corpse and takes it back home with him. Frank also picks up the occasional stray woman to kill. His smitten and domineering housekeeper Iris (a spot-on creepy portrayal by Franca Stoppi) helps Frank out as he descends further into madness and murder. Director Joe D'Amato ably crafts an extremely grim, gloomy, and downright morbid atmosphere that's positively dripping with raw despair and suffocating claustrophobia. Ottavio Fabbri's twisted script pulls no punches in its stark and unflinching depiction of the dangers of obsession, the inability to let go, and the severe emotional and psychological damage wrought by toxic codependent relationships. Moreover, this film certainly delivers the gruesome and grotesque goods with an appalling vengeance: We've got everything from necrophilia to evisceration to cannibalism presented herein with startling explicitness. The fact that all the events which transpire n the sick story are within the realm of possibility gives this picture an extra unsettling edge. Goblin's pulsating score manages to be funky and elegant in equal measure. D'Amato's glossy cinematography provides an impressive polished look. A deliciously dark and depraved doozy.

Exploitation with a capital 'E'. The soundtrack by Goblin is certainly not their best. At times it is simply dull and not befitting of the horrors that are going on on the screen. At other times it is adequate, simply funny or even a little surreal. The acting is good enough for an exploitation flick, Kieran Canter and Franca Stoppi have just the right creepy faces, and then there's loads of pretty female skin and flesh ready for the slaughter.The premise may have some potential on a dramatic level, but the story and many of its details are ludicrous - but what did I expect? This film is all about the gore and the creepiness, and it has that in spades. Not that I can really look at this all that seriously (for such a type of film, I would for instance recommend 'Dans ma peau' by Marina de Van), but there is some strange balance between the excellent gore and the sheer, sometimes almost comical, madness that goes on here.A more than decent 8 out of 10, plus note to self: watch more by Joe D'Amato.

Joe D'Amato is regarded as a rather greedy hack by most people acquainted with horror. Now that's not too far from the truth. But before D'Amato started cranking out movies with an inverse relation between quantity and quality, he made this startling horror movie. Startling in the sense that it's actually GOOD! Don't get me wrong. Just because it's good doesn't mean it's not exploitation. It has truly gory scenes such as a taxidermy which doesn't leave much to the imagination, nails being ripped off, some implied necrophilia and a particular scene of a "stew" being munched on with an extreme close-up which made my stomach do a somersault. Well done Joe for that! However, these gore scenes are spread out and in between them, there is some attempt to build suspense. There is some good acting particularly by the very creepy but oddly sexy Franca Stoppi(RIP) who plays the caretaker from hell, Iris. The cinematography (by Joe himself) is gorgeous in spite of all the carnage around. It doesn't seem like a cheap B-movie. The music by Goblin is as expected, superb.That said, the movie is not perfect. It stagnates from time to time. There is absolutely no humour (except some unintentional stuff but you will be too busy gagging to notice) to lighten the relentlessly downbeat tone. Also, the lead actor can be too over-the-top sometimes.That said, I am shocked that this is a film by Joe D'Amato. It would seem he actually had talent. It's tragic that he was so caught up in making money that he didn't fulfill it. The horror aficionado missed out on a few more quality horror movies.

Whatever your stance is on sleazy Italian horror films from the 70's-80's, it can't be denied by anyone that this film is some kind of minor masterpiece. Here is a film that works on every level -- not just the "gore" level that a lot of these films work on -- and is actually quite tasteful in its depiction of corpse-loving.First of all, the atmosphere in this film is amazing. Dialogue is left to a bare minimum, especially at the beginning of the film when there's hardly a line spoken for a good half an hour... though the music of "The Goblins" (Goblin, right?) is actually quite out of place in this particular film, as Joe D'Amato's directing style doesn't really lend to their blend of.. uh.. progressive-disco or whatever it is (on the other hand, their music perfectly fits Dario Argento's oversaturated colors in his films)... however, sometimes it hits the right notes at the right time. Everything has a sort-of washed-out look to it, which is nice. And almost the whole film takes place at night, which is nice, of course.The film is actually a very simple story of not being able to let go of someone you loved, but it's well-acted (shockingly!) and there's enough gore (though not as much as you would think by some of these reviews) and suspense to keep you watching.Just all in all, a really good picture without any real flaws that succeeds at all that it does. Not much else to say, really -- except, what's with the ending? Anyway... highly recommend.