My first Giallo!

It's really really stylish, with a great score and some wild cinematography (especially the manikin scene with heaps of manikins falling crazily at the screen). Theres also a really great chase scene in the middle which was possibly my favourite part, the numerous kills are always good too.

My only problem with the film is that I found some aspects of the plot (such as which of the side characters were which) a little hard to keep track of, and other parts of the plot just plain uninteresting. It still has enough plot, and pretty consistent intense kills to keep my interest, so it didn't completely kill the film for me (no pun intended).

Ήθελα να βοηθήσω τον δολοφόνο να τελειώσει μια ώρα αρχύτερα.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Interesting Giallo stylishly done with some genuinely creepy moments.

A stylish giallo that is fun because of the boldness of its visual aesthetic. This movie gives zero fucks about whip pans being too erratic and zooms being too absurd. The mania of the shooting, particularly the scene with all the marionettes is part of the charm and makes the movie all the better.

The plot is disappointingly formulaic, considering the clever gimmick at the heart of it. It's definitely overlong with characters being killed in rapid succession and the mystery becoming needlessly complex, especially considering the extremely lackluster twist that seems like the filmmakers just said, "ah fuck it" and decided to wrap.

Ήθελα να βοηθήσω τον δολοφόνο να τελειώσει μια ώρα αρχύτερα.

είδα το μισό εχθές και το υπόλοιπο σήμερα, γιατί είναι τόσο βαρετό που μόνο έτσι καταφέρνεις να το δεις ολόκληρο.

My first Giallo!

It's really really stylish, with a great score and some wild cinematography (especially the manikin scene with heaps of manikins falling crazily at the screen). Theres also a really great chase scene in the middle which was possibly my favourite part, the numerous kills are always good too.

My only problem with the film is that I found some aspects of the plot (such as which of the side characters were which) a little hard to keep track of, and other parts of the plot just plain uninteresting. It still has enough plot, and pretty consistent intense kills to keep my interest, so it didn't completely kill the film for me (no pun intended).

Not a bad movie, but not exceptional either.

Pretty typical (and nasty) giallo with a pretty typically incoherent plot and lots of typically pretty actresses getting butchered, this time by a killer with a penchant for injecting them with a poison that induces paralysis so they can be killed while fully aware but unable to move. That's an inherently creepy idea, but I felt like the filmmakers missed some pretty massive opportunities for suspense by not exploiting the paralysis angle at all - I don't remember even one measly point-of-view shot for these poor girls!

One thing that knocks the movie up a notch or so is the score by Ennio Morricone, which alternates between gauzy romantic melodies and glitchy, atonal drones and freak-outs - the latter lending many of the set-pieces an extra nightmarish quality.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Interesting Giallo stylishly done with some genuinely creepy moments.

A splendid visual treat. Apart from the set piece killings, the camera is always weaving between odd looking trees, exploring Rome's sidewalks or climbing building exteriors and panning across their super stylish interiors. But these visuals, accompanied by one of Morricone's finest scores, merely link a series of marvellous and sexy kills.
Each kill is well managed but none can quite match the sensational opening death scene where the silhouetted man in overcoat, hat and gloves appears and takes his victim like some rag doll. And this right after we have gazed in wonder at the naked body of the first victim as she is massaged by the sinister one - all beneath the opening credits, plus we have already glimpsed the lovely Barbara Bach!