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The acting in this movie is really good.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

For those of you sitting with their trousers round their ankles and a Kleenex nearby waiting for Edwige - she don't turn up until half an hour into the film.Sergio Martino once again proves he actually might be the master of the giallo by presenting us a film that mixes in the gloved killer of babes standard plot with the late sixties plot of rich folk fighting over money with a bit of Gothic Horror mixed with a whole lot of domestic abuse for good measure. Plus: Edwige Fenech! Anita Strinberg is the bitter, abused wife of drunken novelist Luigi Pistilli and often suffers from his violence and humiliation, mostly in front of a bunch of hippy jerks from a nearby commune. Luigi has recently lost his mum and is a bit messed up about it, even though local folklore has her as a whore who loved to receive expensive jewellery from her lovers. Luigi also likes to get it on with his black maid and a young chick from the local bookstore.Further troubles to add to Anita's miserable life is the black cat that Luigi owns called Satan, who constantly follows Anita around and attacks her, plus the sickle wielding murderer who is now slashing his way through the female cast. Worst still, Luigi's niece Edwige Fenech turns up as a randy hippy! Look out Luigi! And Anita! And the local delivery guy! I forgot to mention Ivan Rassimov, who is hanging around staring at things and has white hair, which is never explained.This is a very well handled film that balances Luigi Pistilli's madness and violent abuse of Anita with a giallo plot (which is solved well before the end!) plus other elements of the old 'inheritance' plot. It's not overly violent but Edwige Fenech adds to the sleaze with her everything goes character, and I'm sure Luigi never regretted 'mashing her paps' as it were.There's much more going on here than I'm letting on. Martino seems to grasp what folks want from a giallo and duly provides, but it's his next film that almost reaches perfection, which is the film Torso.

Boasting one of the most outlandish titles of the giallo genre, Sergio Martino's Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key is yet another loose adaptation of one of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous titles, The Black Cat. Like most Poe adaptations, the film shares little with its source material, apart from the presence of the titular black cat, here named Satan. While it is chocked full of narrative stumbles and frustrating red herrings, Martino's refusal to bend to the genre rules of the giallo makes Your Vice an extremely interesting entry into the genre, avoiding being bogged down with drawn-out set pieces and mind-bending visuals, and instead focusing on the psychological - and physical - interplay between its two leads.Bored writer Oliviero (Luigi Pistilli) spends the majority of his time throwing drug and alcohol-fuelled parties for the local hippies, and enjoys mentally and physically abusing his long- suffering wife Irina (Anita Strindberg) in front of them. When a young student is brutally murdered on the night she had arranged to meet Oliviero, the wife-beating pig naturally becomes the prime suspect and withdraws into a state of deep paranoia at his labyrinthine mansion. When their maid also shows up dead, Oliviero and Irina hide the body just before the arrival of his niece Floriana (Edwige Fenech). Floriana is a confident and wise young woman, and hatches a plan with Irina to deal with her abusive husband. But not all is as it seems, and just who is the handsome grey-haired man lurking behind every corner?Far from your average giallo, Your Vice... doesn't subvert the genre but frequently surprises. The plot and ludicrous climax, like most gialli, seem not be taken from the yellow-covered pulp fiction they are normally adapted from, but something akin to an episode of Scooby- Doo. While that may seem like a criticism, it really isn't - it's the type of insanity that makes these movies so much fun to watch. Bolstered by a fantastic score by Bruno Nicolai and lavish cinematography by Giancarlo Ferrando, they are nonetheless overshadowed by Fenech, surely one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen. Floriana is a no-nonsense, well-travelled lady, and just when you think you have her worked out, the film throws in a surprising, if in no way believable, twist. It may not be remembered as Martino's best entry into the genre (1973's Torso is certainly up there), but Your Vice... throws in enough twists and turns to keep it consistently entertaining and occasionally disturbing.

This is a fine little giallo which borrows from and credits Poe for elements from The Black Cat. However, that comes about halfway through the tale, which makes you wonder if this was two partial plots made into one for a full film.You have a struggling writer who has a rather brutal relationship with his wife and they live together in a nice old château. But, strange things...like Murder!...start happening, sometimes within the walls(so to speak) of their own home. However, this sort of comes to a halt, as I said, about halfway through the movie, then we move on to the Black Cat portion of the tale. And, if you know the story, then you know exactly where the plot is going.Their niece comes to live with them and she's a delightful little firecracker who starts to play and play with all involved for her own desires and personal gain. All the major players are jerks, so you don't feel too bad when they each meet their own well-deserved fate(not that this necessarily means they all die). However, you have to laugh at an inspector working with a patrolman to learn the nature of a complaint about possible "cat abuse"---that's a sorry way to move a story along.The gore effects are more bloody than gory, but they're not bad. I was disappointed when the plot hit the fork in the road and went down the wrong trail. But, this is still a good film to see if you're into gialli, as I am.

Supposedly based upon a Poe story, this is a typical Giallo with lots of blood and sex.The sex starts first with a table dance by Dalila Di Lazzaro (Night Train Murders, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein). Then Olivero, a failed writer, (Luigi Pistilli) abuses his wife Irina (Anita Strindberg), and the maid, before having sex with his wife under the table. She is dressed in his mother's clothing, so we obviously have some Oedipal issues at work here.He arranges for a visit with a mistress (Daniela Giordano), who is subsequently murdered. Who do you think is the prime suspect? It isn't long before the maid is slashed down the middle of her belly.Olivero's niece, Floriana (Edwige Fenech) arrives, and things are bound to get a whole lot more interesting.Fenech (Hostel Part II, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh) and Strindberg (The Senator Likes Women, Lizard in a Woman's Skin) soon become allies and bed mates. But, Floriana swings both ways and is soon in a sleeping bag with the milkman (Riccardo Salvino) after a motorcycle race that made no sense in the middle of the picture.Just when you think you know the suspect, another pops up. Who is doing the killings? The last part of the movie switches from giallo to Poe as the murderer is reveled by, what else, Satan, the cat.