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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A drug trafficker's wife has been murdered. He has no alibi and will certainly be the chief suspect. Trouble is he is connected to various high flyers and they do not want their man implicated so they hide him and his mistress temporarily in a deserted hotel. Soon, strangers appear in the night and bizarre events begin to escalate out of control.Well this one sure qualifies as one of the more obscure gialli out there. It has an odd feel to it that can best be described as surreal and off-kilter. I think the setting has something to do with it. Most of the movie is set within the confines of the hotel. This ensures that there is a claustrophobic feel to this giallo. Almost everything seems to happen in the dead of night and there is an impressively consistent dream-like tone to proceedings once the strange events get underway. An elderly man matter-of-factly asks for assistance in disposing of the body of his wife who he has just murdered for a trivial reason; there is a strange room where a girl bathes alongside a monkey; enigmatic women drift through the corridors of the hotel and say ambiguous things. The movie really gets going once these strange hotel guests start appearing and I think its this whole dream-like section in the dead of night in an abandoned hotel that mark this giallo out as a little distinctive from its peers. Of additional note is the theme tune which is a blues-rock number – it's not exactly normal to have the likes of that score one of these flicks – it only adds to the oddball feel to this one. Unusual stuff on the whole, which is a good thing of course.

Being in the mood of watching a Giallo that would be fun,but easy going,I had a quick look at some Giali titles by the side of my TV,and noticed that one starring "Amuck" actress Patrizia Viotti, (who sadly died at just age 44 in 1994) looked like one that would perfectly fit what I was looking for.The plot:Getting back from a "business" trip to Milan,Giorigo Darica returns home and is welcomed by the sight of his murdered wife.Terrified by the murder scene and also due to having a worrying feeling that his wife's murder is connected to his "business" relations.Rushing to get urgent advice from his lawyer over how he can stay away from getting implemented with his wife's murder. Darica's lawyer advises him that he should go and stay in a disused 80 floor hotel.Picking up his mistress Liz for company in the abandoned building,Liz and Giorigo soon start to suspect that the hotel is not actually empty,but instead contains things that go bump in the night.View on the film:Whilst Stelio Candelli's performance as Darica is disappointingly wooden,Patrizia Viotti brings a great sense of boundless energy to the film,with the terrific scenes of Liz getting in a violent struggle with Darica allowing Viotti to show the full effects of the closed off surrounding's on Liz.For the first half of the movie,co-writer/ (along with Luigi Russo) director Leopoldo Savona makes the first half of the film a supernatural Giallo,as Savona fills the hotel with atmospheric low lighting, smoke,and a surprisingly fun,a head of its time pre-Goblin Rock song by Mark Sigis Porter.Sadly,as the second half of the film brings the supernatural elements to this Giallo crashing down to earth, Savona loses the delicacy which he had been using to build up a good atmosphere,by instead making the end of the film one which leaves a feeling of Darica and Liz's time in the hotel as being a near complete waste of time

A man returns to Mila from an out-of-town trip to find his wife brutally murdered. Realizing he doesn't have a decent alibi, he doesn't call the cops, but immediately goes to see his lawyer. It turns out that, via the lawyer, he is connected to powerful corrupt men and is helping them traffic drugs. Since it isn't in anybody's interest that the man get arrested, the lawyer puts him up in an eerie, old and nearly abandoned hotel, although he is quite annoyed that his client insists on bringing his sexy young mistress (Patrizia Viotti)along with him. Immediately strange things begin to happen in the hotel: strange music is played at odd hours, the man stumbles upon the elderly owner of the hotel who has apparently just killed HIS wife and needs help burying her, and the owners' strange but attractive daughter keeps trying to seduce him. Perhaps the old hotel is haunted, or maybe someone is trying the beleaguered murder suspect crazy? I'd recommend this giallo to giallo fans. Everybody else may be a little put off by the bizarre beginning and the rather ridiculous plot twists at the end. Hardcore giallo fans, however, will no doubt eat this kind of absurdity up and ask for seconds. This is not a great giallo by any means. The acting is generally pretty poor, but the sexy Patrizia Viotti will probably make an impression (on male viewers at least). Viotti played Barbara Bouchet's murdered lesbian lover in the giallo classic "Amuck", but she was understandably overshadowed in that one by Bouchet and Rosalba Neri. This is her show all the way though, and while she's certainly no Meryl Streep acting-wise, she does get nice and naked several times. The music by Mark Sigis Porter is also, uh, interesting. The title song is basically a bad Jimi Hendrix imitation, but, god knows, there are far worse people to badly imitate than Hendrix.Casual viewers may want to pass on this, but giallo fans should definitely seek it out

This is a pretty slow going thriller which is absolutely not a giallo. The story is very boring and there is absolutely no gore no black glove killer. The plot is absurd and unengaged and sometimes stupid. I am a giallo fan who watch 70 giallos total, some good , some bad, but this is maybe the worst so called giallo I have ever seen(I still doubt it is a giallo) I am sincerely suggest all euro shock and giallo fans there is no need to track this trash down, believe me it is not worth it, you could save 75 minus of your life. This film definitely not a good example of my favorite genre-giallo. 1 star because no lower grade at IMDb.