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Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Following a series of abductions, a local police officer in Venice investigating the disappearances is continually stumped about the nature of the crimes, and as the abductions continue a break in the case allows him to solve the identity of the strange killer and races to stop him.This one wasn't all that awful a giallo effort. One of the finer points of this one is the fact that there's quite a strong number of abduction sequences place throughout here. Starting off rather quickly with the opening showing off several quick abductions, this comes off really nicely with the multiple women getting targeted and kidnapped while out in the city or near the water to get the mystery going in a big start, and once the action shifts to the maniac's headquarters below the city the underground catacombs have the appropriately dark and wet atmosphere throughout here. Since there's a nice bit of work done to enhance the atmosphere of the location with the dead women who are stuck inside the glass cases forever embalmed through the gruesome ideas contained within here. The later investigation scenes in the basement of the hotel or the backstage scenes of the club manage to feature some solid suspense moments, with the abduction off the boat amongst the crowded tourists is quite an impressive sequence. The other big point here is the big action in the finale where the tense and utterly chilling stalking in the underground sewers, as well as the confrontations in the crypt where it takes on some great work with the killers' disguise and the chases throughout the tunnels, give this a fun, action- packed finale. These here give this one enough to like to hold it up over it's few minor flaws. The biggest issue with the film is the absolutely dreadful pacing here, which really ruins the film more than anything. Although the inclusion of the girls' tourist trip to the city adds bodies to the killers' list, the fact that this stops the film cold to show off the usual tourist locales of Venice are far too obviously designed to pad out the running time, brief as it is. There's no real need for this one to go to that kind of duration dealing with the type of fodder as this one does, and once it moves forward with them running around to all the tourist locations and events the film has run through too much time to get back to the action in the remaining part of the film. That really does limit the action to a few scenes here alongside the other big flaw as the film's reliance on abductions over killing does hurt as well so this one does feel tamer than what came before. Although it does look cheap and somewhat low-budget in the worst ways, these here really do bring this one down.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

...Except that the embalming scene is absolutely the same, repeated with different women, the guy always with his back facing us, to not be able to see his face, and then the exaggerated end, the rest is watchable if you do not have another better movie to watch. Unknown actors which are not quite bad. The scene with the guitar singer coming out of a coffin is the most successful moment of the movie.

A ghastly murderer is on the loose in Venice.He stalks women,kills various beauties and embalms them for his collection of beautiful cadavers.A young reporter tries to stop this crazed embalmer.The killer hides in the ruins of an old decayed monastery.He attacks his victims in scuba gear a la Dick Maas "Amsterdamned" and uses Venetian canals to leave the place of the crime.During the climax he is dressed as a monk with a skeleton mask."The Embalmer" by Dino Tavella is an enjoyable slice of an Italian proto-giallo with sluggish pace and unneeded comic overtones.The film has its share of effective and suspenseful moments and the script is positively macabre and downbeat.7 embalmers out of 10.

I really think the English dubb team had no script from the movie makers to work from. So much of the dialog is simply inane and reaction to what else is happening in that scene.There was no backstory at all for the serial killer, no motivation given for why he killed. All that's told is that he's the manager of a hotel and he's a peeping tom there as well.The whole movie may well be worth watching for the bizarre Dead-Elvis impersonator, however. I would buy the DVD just for that completely outré, hilarious scene.It's quite unique among the grind-house horror genre. A scuba diving serial killer in Venice, Italy who embalms the bodies of his victims and keeps them in a sunken church. Shame Tarentino didn't get a hold of it.