tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16369746216257714012024-03-12T22:11:34.150-05:00KRIMI IN THE POCKET GIALLO ON THE BRAINkrimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-38548130869365778942019-12-18T11:26:00.001-06:002020-01-21T19:24:42.484-06:00[INDEX] Krimi & Giallo Site Archive<div style="text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/breaking-fourth-wall-in.html"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">01.20.20: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Tessari's <b>BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY (1971), </b>by Leonard Jacobs</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This page will serve as the permanent archive for the <i>Krimi</i> and <i>Giallo</i> reviews written by Leonard Jacobs between 2014 and 2016. The various categories of reviews are organized below, with links to each (the body of some reviews are likely to contain broken links; my apologies in advance). The most recent entry will appear at the top of each list. <u><b>Also, as with every post on the site, spoilers and the occasional NSFW screencap should be expected.</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For me, special mention goes to what I’ve identified as the holy trinity of <i>Krimis</i>—<a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html"><b>ROOM 13</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/002-krimi-pocket-review-phantom-of-soho.html"><b>PHANTOM OF SOHO</b></a>, and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b></a>—three <i>Krimis</i> from 1964. Without these three films, <a href="https://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-what-makes-giallo.html">the <i>Giallo</i> genre as we know it</a> simply wouldn’t exist. Also, my vote for best unknown / unseen <i>Krimi</i>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html">Alfred Vohrer’s sublime <b>SIEBEN TAGE FRIST</b></a>, from 1969 (which happens to be available on a decent, English-friendly German DVD at the moment). And two other top-tier reviews of top-tier <i>Krimis</i>: <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/015-krimi-pocket-review-terrible-people.html"><b>1960's THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE</b></a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/022-krimi-pocket-review-forger-of.html"><b>1961's THE FORGER OF LONDON</b></a>. As always, watch more <i>Krimis</i>! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>22. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/022-krimi-pocket-review-forger-of.html">THE FORGER OF LONDON aka DER FÄLSCHER VON LONDON (1961)</a></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>21. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/021-krimi-pocket-review-nylon-noose-aka.html">NYLON NOOSE aka DIE NYLONSCHLINGE (1963)</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>20. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/020-krimi-pocket-review-zombie-walks.html">THE ZOMBIE WALKS aka IM BANNE DES UNHEIMLICHEN (1968)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>19. Bumper Edition: <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/019-krimi-pocket-review-bumper-edition.html">JERRY COTTON x 2</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>18. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html">THE AVENGER aka DER RÄCHER (1960)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>17. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/017-krimi-pocket-review-mark-of.html">MARK OF THE TORTOISE aka WARTEZIMMER ZUM JENSEITS (1964)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>16. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html">THE COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS aka DER MÖNCH MIT DER PEITSCHE (1967)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>15. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/015-krimi-pocket-review-terrible-people.html">THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE aka DIE BANDE DES SCHRECKENS (1960)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>14. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/014-krimi-pocket-review-squeaker-aka.html">THE SQUEAKER aka DER ZINKER (1963)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>13. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html">SCHOOL OF FEAR aka SIEBEN TAGE FRIST (1969)</a>: </b>Currently has my vote for best unknown / unseen <i>Krimi</i>; also solidly in my Top 5 All-Time <i>Krimis</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>12. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html">THE SINISTER MONK aka DER UMHEIMLICHE MONCH (1965)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>11. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/011-krimi-pocket-review-circus-of-fear.html">CIRCUS OF FEAR aka PSYCHO-CIRCUS (1966)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>10. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html">THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO aka DER BUCKLIGE VON SOHO (1966)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>09. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/009-krimi-pocket-review-man-with-glass.html">THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE aka DER MANN MIT DEM GLASAUGE aka TERROR ON HALF MOON STREET (1969)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>08. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html">THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY aka DAS UNGEHEUER VON LONDON CITY (1964)</a>: </b>One of the most striking progenitors of the <i>Giallo</i>. Along with two other <i>Krimis</i> from 1964—the same year as Bava’s seminal <b><b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE</b></b>—<b><b>MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b> </b>shows, pretty definitively, that the <i>Giallo</i> as we know it simply would not exist without the market / creative / production forces that grew out of the German <i>Krimi</i>. Full stop.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>07. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/007-krimi-pocket-review-indian-scarf.html">THE INDIAN SCARF aka DAS INDISCHE TUCH (1963)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>06. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/006-krimi-pocket-review-secret-of-black.html">THE SECRET OF THE BLACK WIDOW aka DAS GEHEIMNIS DER SCHWARZEN WITWE (1963)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>05. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html">ROOM 13 aka ZIMMER 13 (1964)</a>: </b>Another of the <b><b>*KEY*</b></b> “texts” when it comes to the origins of the Italian <i>Giallo</i>; see my note above re:<b> THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b>.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>04. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/004-krimi-pocket-review-mysterious.html">THE MYSTERIOUS MAGICIAN aka DER HEXER (1964)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>03. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/003-krimi-pocket-review-black-abbot-aka.html">THE BLACK ABBOT aka EDGAR WALLACE: DER SCHWARZE ABT (1963)</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>02. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/002-krimi-pocket-review-phantom-of-soho.html">PHANTOM OF SOHO aka DAS PHANTOM VON SOHO (1964)</a>: </b>One of three <i>Krimis</i> from 1964 that form a holy trinity in regards to the origin of the Italian <i>Giallo</i>; in short, without this film,<b> <b>ROOM 13</b></b>, and <b><b>THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b></b>, the <i>Giallo</i> as we’ve come to know it wouldn’t exist.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>01. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/001-krimi-pocket-review-creature-with.html">CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND aka DIE BLAUE HAND (1967)</a></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>03. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-what-makes-giallo.html">What Makes a <i>Giallo</i>?</a></b>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>02. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/krimi-vs-giallo-what-im-talking-about.html">What I’m Talking About Whenever I’m Talking About the Best <i>Gialli</i> and <i>Krimis</i></a></b>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>01. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/krimi-vs-giallo-notes-on-question-of.html">The Question of Happy Endings; the Question of Closure</a></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>11. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-source-code-lizard-in-womans.html">LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN, CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT, & NEW YORK RIPPER</a></b>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>09. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-source-code-solange-enigma-rosso.html">SOLANGE, ENIGMA ROSSO, and Kim Newman</a></b>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>07. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/giallo-source-code-update-perfume-of.html">UPDATE: PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK & REPULSION</a></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>05. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-source-code-tracking-tenebrae.html">Tracking the TENEBRAE Moment (pt. 1)</a></b>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>03. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/giallo-source-code-deep-red-crimes-of.html">DEEP RED, CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT, & NOTHING UNDERNEATH</a></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>02. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-cast-2-la-setta-sect-1991.html">LA SETTA (THE SECT, 1991)</a></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Special mention goes to maybe the most exciting <i>Giallo</i> discovery I’ve made in recent years, Manfred Purzer’s <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/giallo-identikit-009-das-netz-aka-net.html">DAS NETZ (aka THE NET, 1975)</a></b>. Not only have I not been able to find mention of it in the various <i>Giallo</i> listings I’ve collected, I’ve yet to find any substantial writing on it in English. It is most definitely a <i>Giallo</i>, and an incredibly experimental one that deserves to be seen far and wide ... also my write-up of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/giallo-identikit-008-all-colors-of-dark.html">Martino’s <b>ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK</b></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and Argento's still-misunderstood <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html"><b>OPERA</b></a> ... and two entries in my ongoing <i>Giallo</i> manifesto: <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-what-makes-giallo.html">What Makes a <i>Giallo</i>?</a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/busting-giallo-myths-1-tildes-death-in.html">Busting <i>Giallo</i> Myths</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>15.</b> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-015-sweet-body-of.html"><b>THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH aka IL DOLCE CORPO DI DEBORAH (1968)</b></a>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[This is the thirty-seventh post in a continuing series discussing and analyzing all the <i>Krimis</i> and <i>Gialli</i> I've seen. As with every post on this site, <b>SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>. For<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>links to all the other <i>Krimi</i> reviews I’ve posted, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html">go here</a>. For all <i>Giallo</i> reviews, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/index-page-giallo-indetikit-series.html">here</a>.]</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My Krimi Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5 stars) </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Subcategory (if any): </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> i. Inheritance Scheme Krimi </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> ii. Ingénue-in-Distress Krimi </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> iii. Heist / Master Criminal Krimi </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> iv. Old Dark House Krimi </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> v. Past Trauma Krimi </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> Siegfried Lowitz (official) </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> Karin Dor </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In My Krimi Top 20 (Y/N): No
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[NOT EVERYTHING<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>IN THE KRIMI IS A PUNCHLINE]</span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I’ll always feel indebted to Kim Newman for my formal introduction to the Rialto <i>Krimis</i>, via his invaluable, 30-page <i>Video Watchdog</i> review of the German box sets, as that article came into my life at a time when I was just starting to wrap my head around the genre. <span style="color: yellow;">(A time, not really that long ago, when I had zero clue for instance that the German <i>Krimis</i> are as responsible as anything else in the world for what we now call the Italian <i>Giallo</i>.)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The more <i>Krimis</i> I’ve seen though (74 and counting), the more I think his intro and capsule reviews tend to overemphasize <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">one</span> single aspect of the <i>Krimis</i>—and at the expense of all others: I.e., the <i>Krimi’s</i> broadly played comedic elements.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>And, how these elements take shape—first in the form of stock, “joke characters” (played most often by Eddi Arent), and then in a kind of cartoon aesthetic that manifests itself in set design and décor. <span style="color: yellow;">(The easiest example of this are those supposedly, screamingly, fake “English” castles and the way they make a mod-but-already-outdated joke out of the Gothic tradition.) </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The danger in weighting one’s understanding of the genre so lopsidedly toward its comedy, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">though</span>, is that fans—new fans esp.—are in danger of missing the other tones (thriller tones, horror-mystery tones, <i>Giallo</i> tones) that get struck from film to film. It runs the risk of reducing the popular understanding of the genre to nothing more or less than the genre’s camp value—a danger I see borne out in review after review. Newman, in his <i>VW</i> review, frames the story in these terms:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Harald Reinl’s film of the novel <b>THE FORGER aka THE CLEVER ONE (1927)</b> opens at Ascot [horse track], with <i>Oberinspektor</i> Burke (Siegfried Lowitz) in the crowds on the look-out for counterfeit money and <i>der Königen</i> making a guest appearance in grainy news footage. (Actually, if you count portraits on the walls of Scotland Yard, Elizabeth II is in more of these films than Klaus Kinski.) The imaginative title sequence features a magnifying glass passed over a snide note and a jaunty, catchy Martin Böttcher theme. As is often [the case] in the series, an ordinary racket which would have done for a documentary-style crime movie ... leads the investigators to an overdecorated (lots of antlers) and echoey English country house (Longford Castle) and a twisted uppercrust family—not to mention a Mabuse-alike who issues orders over an intercom in an ominous office with two-way mirrors. A <b>SUSPICION</b> element is added as the new bride Jane (Karin Dor) worries about the possible guilt of her high-born husband Peter Clifton (Hellmut Lange). A scream in the night brings her to the balcony, from which she sees her husband sleepwalking suspiciously in the garden. The next day, Peter wakes up covered in blood, having suffered one of his periodic amnesia spells, and an angry ex-suitor of his wife’s is found battered to death in the early morning mist. All this, like the printing press in the cellar, is a dead giveaway as to the innocence of <i>Herr</i> Clifton.”</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In some ways his review suggests—again, esp. to someone unfamiliar with the genre—that tonally the <i>Krimis</i> can’t ever be taken seriously. That, on balance, they are ridiculous, “camp” concoctions whose <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">empty</span> calories are incapable of sustaining dramatic weight, thriller weight, any weight that doesn’t include its own punchline & pratfall routine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Of course there’s something to this. One need only experience the bright colors and slapdash, comic-book mechanics of something like <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html">THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1966)</a></b>, or <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html">THE COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS (1967)</a></b>, or <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/009-krimi-pocket-review-man-with-glass.html">THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE (1969)</a></b> to understand why reviews so often boil them down to nothing more than a wink and a nudge re: how crazy and campy all these weirdo West German mysteries <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">are</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But what you discover, once you get past the proverbial “first row,” is that for every <b>HUNCHBACK OF SOHO</b>, there is a melancholy, moody, experimentally shot <i>Krimi</i> whose existence seems wholly unknown to the average reviewer. <i>Krimis</i> that possess a complexity of style *and* substance that the average review seems incapable of acknowledging. Something like the truly troubling, truly envelope-pushing <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html">SIEBEN TAGE FRIST</a></b>, which is, in its own way, as sexually taboo <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-source-code-solange-enigma-rosso.html">as <b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?</b></a></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and as formally innovative as <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html">Argento’s <b>OPERA</b></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That is, f</span>or every camp, masked monk (<a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html"><b>COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS</b></a>), there is a broken, complicated <b>*human*</b> villain wearing that same mask (<b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html">THE SINISTER MONK</a></b>).
And, for every passage of vaudeville-style comedy, there is an equally (if not <b>*more*</b>) persuasive passage of what David Sanjek calls <i>Stimmung</i><span style="color: yellow;">***</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>:</b></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That peculiar, and indelible, and overriding <b>*mood*</b> that the best <i>Krimis</i> achieve. A grotesque mystery-horror world built out of mixed-and-matched pieces of pulp from who knows how many different cultures—the popular West German cinema’s invention of a made-up 1960s-era London, which is itself, in turn, based on the writings of a hustler-writer Englishman whose novels were already 40 or 50 years old at the time they were being reused.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">What is achieved—again, in the best examples of the genre—is something akin to the “imaginary” Italy that Argento achieves in his <i>Gialli</i>, the ones seeded with transplanted, dislocated, even invented chunks of “real” architecture and landscape as a way to world-build the <i>Giallo</i> into its own time and space ... or the way that De Palma invokes, simultaneously, a thriller world that is both real and imaginary, through his obsessive doubling of images and characters, his obsessive layering of misleading soundtracks, his trick-behind-the-trick-behind-the-trick. <span style="color: yellow;">(For my tastes, <b>DRESSED TO KILL</b> and <b>BODY DOUBLE</b> are his two most perfect examples of this ... two films whose guts also often get glossed over, by critics and their misunderstanding of the “humor” up there on the screen.).
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[WHAT COMES AFTER COMEDY]</span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So. What reviews of Harald Reinl’s <b>THE FORGER OF LONDON</b> most often seem to mention is how *different* it is from all those endless yuck-yuck examples of the <i>Krimi</i>. What an outlier it is, because it tries to “play things fairly straight”. Because it deliberately ignores the winning box-office formula of a joke <i>Krimi</i>, and instead has a violent, potentially troubling story to tell.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Compare it for instance to the same year’s <b>GREEN ARCHER</b>, also starring Karin Dor. There a mugging, schlubbing Eddi Arent plays a cartoon of a journalist named Spike Holland. He opens the movie by jokingly breaking the fourth wall, insisting that this <i>Krimi</i> can’t start because there hasn’t been a murder.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And he ends it by becoming the butt of the genre’s oft-used “<i>Ende</i> gag”: He ends the movie by taking an arrow in the back. But like any good <i>Three Stooges</i> routine, the arrow doesn’t wound him mortally, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it only</span> pins the word “<i>Ende</i>” onto the back of this ass, a hokey signal to the audience that their time in the <i>Krimi</i>-verse, for the moment at least, has come to an end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(The persistence of the <i>Ende</i> gag makes for an interesting echo, when you watch the Lang <b>MABUSE</b> movies that are so key to the staging, styling, and storytelling of the <i>Krimi</i>. In the <b>MABUSE</b> movies, the expressionistic and exaggerated appearance of the <i>Ende</i>-sign Lang uses tracks with the overall feeling of disorientation and unease. In the <i>Krimi</i>, they mostly invite a reading that is hokey and watered down.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But there are no such gags in <b>FORGER</b>, where Eddi Arent’s reduced to little more than a forgettable cameo, and the well-familiar inheritance plot plays cover for a complicated, even perverted critique of what it means to enter into the marriage bed ... a critique that gives us a window into what unsettles these otherwise “jokey” mysteries.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I.e., because so much of the humor (and the attending distraction it causes) is stripped away </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">in <b>FORGER</b></span></span>, we’re left to really focus on the fate of the lead female character played by Karin Dor, here playing one of her umpteen versions of the genre’s ingénue-in-distress. Because the stock ingénue character shows up so often in <i>Krimis</i>, it’s no surprise we get one here—no surprise that much of the plot is driven by some grasping man’s attempt to both steal her inheritance and dominate her mentally.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Usually this unctuous, repugnant attempt to dominate women—orchestrated h<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ere </span>by what Newman so brilliantly calls a “Mabuse-alike” villain in the cast—gets tempered, even canceled out, by the jokes. So it's easy to laugh off the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">otherwise</span> disturbing implications of a world fille<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d with</span> shrill, abusive men who use their power to do nothing but dominate—socially dominate, sexually dominate, emotionally dominate—the female characters in the film (and female characters, it must be mentioned, who are most often decades younger than their assaulting men, an age difference that adds a certain level of obscenity to the crime).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In short, <b>FORGER</b> gives us an insight into the genre that goes past the thumbnail reviews and headline reductions—past the surface understanding and surface appreciation—and lands us securely into the uneasy position of grappling with what I’ll call (for lack of a better term) the genre’s “Male Menace”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Arent is so MIA from the movie that I started to seriously wonder if they were saving him, waiting to reveal him as the faceless villain pulling everyone’s strings. The “Arent-as-Villain” sub-genre of the <i>Krimi</i> did take off later—with him giving us interesting and layered takes on the <i>Krimi</i> villain in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html"><b>THE SINISTER MONK</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/011-krimi-pocket-review-circus-of-fear.html"><b>CIRCUS OF FEAR</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b>HUNCHBACK OF SOHO</b></a>, <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">THE TRYGON FACTOR</span></b>, etc. But here he’s a shadow of his usual shtick: a bumbling neighbor who lives next door to one of the crime scenes. He gets some brief, and pointless, physical comedy in his first scene, and then doesn’t show up again until film’s end, in an even briefer cameo.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[THE MALE MENACE]</span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So what am I talking about when it comes to this overriding threat, coming from the <i>Krimi’s</i> veritable parade of possessive, violent, even sexually abusive men? In <b>FORGER</b> we get it from the start, first in a kind of existential dread that both Dor and her husband suffer on the eve of their marriage: Dor’s character fears that, in her world, “love” can never be enough for her troubled husband. And he fears that the mysterious secret that haunts his past will also, by way of their marriage, come to haunt and dominate her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then, walking parallel to their troubled marriage, is that parade of hideous men. There’s the high-society gadabout who openly propositions Dor (even though his manners—and human decency—should prevent it), and who more than once threatens the life of her husband. There’s her ailing father-figure, who uses her love for him to guilt her into a marriage she doubts from the start. There’s the second-in-command police inspector, who seems happy to find Dor and her husband guilty of the crimes he himself has committed. And there’s her husband’s oily old doctor, who takes every chance he gets alone with Dor to try to entice her with his silver-fox (but sagging) charm.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>MALE MENACE NO. 1:</b> We’re introduced to Robert Graf in the film’s racetrack prologue. There he hits on Dor’s character—even though her much-feted marriage is imminent—and openly mocks her engagement. His mental / emotional abuse of her even gets some air, as he suggests he possesses secret knowledge of her fiancé that will ruin the both of them. On their wedding day he shows up at the reception sloshed, makes loud, inappropriate comments about her “role” as future mother and wife, and is thrown out. Later he enters Dor’s bedroom as she sleeps, chokes her, then kisses her, and then escapes. He is a smug, slimy male—so hurt by Dor’s rejection of him that he’s determined to have her at any cost.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>MALE MENACE NO. 2:</b> Krimi regular Walter Rilla plays Dor’s seemingly well-intentioned uncle. He uses his excuse of poor health as a way to guilt trip her into marriage, even after she confides to him that she thinks the marriage will be an emotional sham. In the sublime <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html">ROOM 13 (1964)</a></b>, he played another father-figure in Dor’s life, her actual father, a wealthy upper-cruster whose past sins have come to be visited upon his daughter’s head. In both films, he betrays Dor, using his status as “father” <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to</span> further leverage her will.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>MALE MENACE NO. 3:</b> One of my favorite Krimi players, Ulrich Beiger. He plays the second detective in the film, who may or may not be trying to frame Dor and/or her husband. He’s on the Krimi scene from the first “official” entry, <b>1959’s FACE OF THE FROG</b>, where he is one of the Frog’s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">knife-men</span>. He makes his most delirious, menacing impression in Harald Reinl’s near-flawless <b>THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960)</b>, including a scene where he tries to force marriage on Dor (the scene is one of the weirdest in the entire genre, esp. as he seems to have a kind of psychotic break in the middle of it) … he also helps throw a woman, who’s tied to a chair, down a three-story hole to her death <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/015-krimi-pocket-review-terrible-people.html">(extensive review, including caps of those scenes, here)</a>.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>MALE MENACE NO. 4:</b> It doesn’t take long for the silver-fox doctor—who’s been doping Dor’s husband while also seeding his mind with delusions of mental illness—to go into full-on creeper mode and proposition Dor. While visiting the couple to minister to her husband’s strange blackouts, his “missing time,” he comes right out with it once he has Dor alone. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">E</span>ven though she clearly wants none of it, and is offended that her husband’s confidante would so quickly go rotten on him<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ... s</span>o many m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ale characters</span> in these movies do nothing but betray—callously betray—the confidences they’ve been given. (Note also those thoroughly modern paintings, as visual counterpoint to the film’s “old-fashioned” Gothic tones.)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In short, like so many <i>Krimi</i> males, their overriding function in the story is one of domination—the sneering, indefensible urge to dominate the female characters. That can mean, in the genre, the urge to dominate them socially / financially, manipulating events so that they’ll give up any and all rights to their proper inheritance (and the social independence it affords). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Think Marisa Mell’s unexpected inheritance in <b>THE PUZZLE OF THE RED ORCHID</b>, and the way that warring gangsters (and their surrogates) seek to “relieve her” of it. Or Sabine Sesselmann’s unsuspecting character in <b>THE DOOR WITH THE SEVEN LOCKS</b>, where a whole cadre of Wallace grotesques—Werner Peters playing a child-sized version of his usual no-good, Pinkas Braun playing a low-rent and ridiculous Dr. Moreau, Hans Nielsen playing a lawyer with a wooden hand—are conspiring to keep her from knowing of the enormous sum of money that should be hers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Also: To dominate them sexually. As touched upon above, this often takes the form of a much older man who uses his “worldly wisdom” and father-figure status to convince, under duress, the ingénue-in-question to marry them. One of those enslaved-for-life marriages that they’ll never, for the life of them, be able to escape: think Brigitte Grothum in <b>INN ON THE RIVER</b>, and the way she’s manipulated by a criminal syndicate (and one man old enough to be her father) into an arranged marriage that she most assuredly does not want.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There’s also Reinl’s staging of this theme: Though not quite the same caliber as those famous breakfast table scenes in <b>CITIZEN KANE</b>, where the length of the table and passage of time goes to show the increasing marital divide between Kane and his unhappy wife, Reinl’s version is a nice riff that gives us the clearest of windows onto this married life. The first night of their honeymoon, dining in Longford Castle, finds them already at arm’s length. The scene suggests no love, no intimacy—a suggestion that only gets underlined when, on her way to bed, <i>alone</i>,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>Dor stoically invites her husband to accompany her by conceding that a husband “has certain rights”. In this instance, he does not claim them:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It also seems a pretty damning comment on marriage: Dor is attacked in her sleep by a man who chokes her as he forces his lips onto hers, and he is only able to do this because she has rejected her husband on their wedding night. We get a version of a world where, no matter their standing in society, the female characters exist under that constant threat of attack. If they reject their husbands “rights,” they also lose any chance to be protected by them. And if they submit to their husbands—in situations where they are not truly in love, guilted into a marriage they did not really want—it is its own kind of attack. An attack on their sense of self, their individuality, their right to exist autonomous in the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There is no security—let alone sanctity—no matter what they do. Whatever their choice, they find a marriage bed that is as cold, violent, and unsafe as if they went ahead in the world on their own. At every turn men want to possess them, violate them, lord over them (by exploiting the law, societal mores, or just robbing them blind).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Here, Dor’s earnest, honest attempts to connect with a husband who keeps her at arm’s length—her willingness to break the law herself in an attempt to keep him from being punished for a crime she may or may not believe he’s committed—her genuinely conflicted expression of a forward-looking, “modern” woman who has come to believe that maybe the institution of marriage is obsolete, and she would be better off insisting on a life outside it ... all of these layered, at-odds expressions of her character (her </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>stand-up” if you will) are trampled on by the boorish, pig-headed, abusive men. Men who see her as a possession, an exploitable means to an end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That she and her husband are eventually vindicated (and through no small help from one of the only other non-villainous males in the cast, the chief inspector played by Lowitz) does little, really, to counteract the profound angst that has been radiating from her up till then. In much the same way that the “solutions” to most <i>Gialli</i> fail, really, to solve the existential uncertainty raised by the events of the film, so too does Dor’s eventual “happy ending”—an ending that does little to convince the viewer of Dor’s ability, as a woman in the <i>Krimi</i>-verse, to “win”.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(For more on the notion of the happy ending in the <i>Krimi</i>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/krimi-vs-giallo-notes-on-question-of.html">go here</a>.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I realize that, in comparison to the examples of sexual sadism, gang rape, mental torture, etc. made so explicit in modern films, these half-buried, part-implied subtexts—their subtlety—is maybe harder to latch onto and appreciate. But under the <i>Krimi’s</i> bumbling comedy, the Old Dark House setting, the sometimes creaky dialogue and plot mechanic, it’s there. And the more <i>Krimis</i> you watch, the more this nagging, disconcerting <i>trauma</i> insists ... that it too often gets obscured by slapstick and laughs doesn</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t mean it isn’t there. Or that it’ll ever get fixed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">***</span>I’ve covered this concept several times already. For reference sake, here’s the relevant text <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that I quoted in</span> my review of <b><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html">1960’s THE AVENGER</a></b>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“... <i>[Krimis]</i> play a double-edged game with what happens on the film's surface and what seems to have happened. What glimmers through is the level at which the images take on a third meaning that tell it like it really is: images of the crude and the garish, of the sardonic and the shocking. These crime films punch a hole in the accustomed order of things. They challenge us to see the world differently, to get away from habitual ways of thinking, to clear the way for imagination ... the special ambiance of the series was calculated, a unique combination of crime and horror ... what counted was the atmospheric setting: the dimly perceived threat that undermines every sense of security, the half-darkness, all of which contributed to an eerie mood of nightmare and terror.”</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The appearance of a similar strategy in certain Japanese Noir movies has <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/krimi-vs-giallo-what-im-talking-about.html">also been discussed by Jasper Sharp,</a> something he calls <i>Mukokuseki</i>. His description sounds very much like he’s describing a <i>Krimi</i>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“... representative of a more hardboiled strain of Nikkatsu Action movie that became increasingly stylized and self-referential over the next decade. They often deployed the same acting talent, with male stars such as Jo Shishido and Hideaki Nitani moving from supporting to more centre-stage roles, and invoked mukokuseki (‘borderless’) onscreen worlds that, in their embrace of an aesthetic and iconography gleaned from the international language of foreign pulp cinema of the same vein, seemed more and more divorced from any recognisable, lived-in Japanese reality, while simultaneously expressing a sense of cynicism and despair at the path up which modernity was leading the country. When combined with some of the most striking and idiosyncratic monochrome widescreen scope cinematography seen anywhere in the world at the time, certain titles transcended their modest potboiler ambitions to find their place within the loftier echelons of cinematic artistry.”</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>VERSION WATCHED:</b></span> I have the German DVD release, which has significantly better a/v than the bootleg US disc(s); it also seems to be a bit longer. The problem is that it offers no English options. So I watched the film a few times, toggling back and forth between the superior a/v of the German disc and the English dub on the crap US bootleg, which I needed in order to get the gist of the dialogue <b><span style="color: yellow;">| LANGUAGE:</span> </b>Very unsatisfying English dub. <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| DIRECTOR:</b></span> Harald Reinl</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| WRITER(S):</b></span> Edgar Wallace, Johannes Kai</span> <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| MUSIC:</b> </span>Martin Böttcher <b><span style="color: yellow;">| CINEMATOGRAPHER: </span></b>Karl Löb</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">| C</span></b></span></span><b><span style="color: yellow;">AST:</span> </b> Karin Dor (Jane Clifton, geb. Leith); Hellmut Lange (Peter Clifton, geb. Welerson); Siegfried Lowitz (Oberinspektor Bourke); Mady Rahl (Marjorie Wells); Walter Rilla (John Leith); Robert Graf (Basil Hale); Joseph Offenbach (Henry); Ulrich Beiger (Inspektor Rouper); Otto Collin (Rechtsanwalt Radlow); Sigrid von Richthofen (Mrs. Anderson); Eddi Arent (Nachbar Stone / Organist Miller); Viktor de Kowa (Dr. Donald Wells)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I mentioned <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/review-cast-12-1981s-night-school-and.html">in my <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b> review</a> that one of the things qualifying it so strongly as a <i>Giallo</i> was the visual signature of its motorcycle-masked killer—and how that distinctive look reiterated any number of <i>Giallo</i> killers come before. For this <span style="color: yellow;"><b>[SOURCE CODE]</b></span> entry I’ll cover two of the most prominent examples of this visual trend: Massimo Dallamano’s <b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? (1974)</b> and Andrea Bianchi’s <b>STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER (1975)</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In Dallamano’s <b>DAUGHTERS</b>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-source-code-solange-enigma-rosso.html">the “Schoolgirls in Peril” Trilogy</a> shifts from the <i>Krimi</i>-<i>Giallo</i> mash-up of its first entry, <b>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?</b>—equal parts late-<i>Krimi</i> sleaze and early-<i>Giallo</i> trauma (with a cast and crew equally straddling the two worlds)—to a <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/introduction-annotated-list-inspired-by.html"><i>Giallo</i>/Eurocrime Hybrid</a>. The police procedural aspect is pushed to the forefront, to the point that there’s no room for amateur detectives. Or for personally invested bystanders, whose witnessing of some traumatic event compels them to risk their own life to investigate it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Bookending the movie with quotes about how unsolved crimes and the disappearance of girls “without a trace” continue unabated helps give it a “true crime” vibe. We get long discussions about how political corruption is keeping the honest, hard-working members of the police from being able to truly fight crime. We get the corrosive, tabloid influence of a free press who are as interested in making money as telling the truth. And we get a truly heinous secret at the back of “respectable” society, where middle- and upper-class schoolgirls—out of boredom, greed, or a total isolation from their own family unit—allow themselves to be possessed (in some cases murdered) by a sex-trafficking ring that goes straight to the top.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In short, we get stock, exploitation strains of these two Italian genres, <i>Giallo</i> and Eurocrime, spliced together to create a new hybrid offshoot. And, in the midst of this sleaze coupling, we get our motorcycle-masked killer. Gone is the fake-priest father-killer from <b>SOLANGE</b>, replaced here by a blank-faced, leathered-up biker, whose weapon of choice is a meat cleaver and whose exact motives are murky at best.</span></span><br />
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caps are from the Shameless UK DVD and leave a lot to be desired (esp.
in the darker scenes). <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.944443322257915.1073741835.113532752015647&type=3">The Blu-ray announced by Camera Obscura</a> can’t get
here fast enough!</span></span></i></td></tr>
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this also made it abundantly clear what an eye Dallamano had, surely
carried over from his days as a cinematographer … one wonders if this
actress was picked precisely because of the look of her face,
and her ability to contort it in so many visually interesting
(also, disturbing) ways … it reminds me of how visually striking the
sustained close-ups on Olga Karlatos’ face are, in that infamous,
eye-gouging scene in Fulci’s <b>ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS</b>. Or the
focus-and-dissolve close-ups of Nieves Navarro’s face, as she witnesses
the opening murder <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/special-my-essay-in-arrows-death-walks.html">in <b>DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT</b></a> under the influence of
drugs.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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the third Schoolgirls<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>Peril movie, <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b>, there is also a
motorcycle-masked killer, though his visual signature (and weight displaced as a character) is much less pronounced. Instead of extended
stalk-and-slash scenes where we watch the glint of his monster-blade, he’s a much more low-key presence. He first appears, really, as
only his bike, peripherally, in the opening scene of the girl’s body
dump by water <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-source-code-twin-peaks-enigma.html">(capped and compared here)</a>. Later we do get an extended
chase scene that shows him helmeted and fleeing, but his dispatch
confirms him as a minor flunky, who could very well not be in the film.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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character is stalked and terrorized in the parking garage of her
apartment building, it strongly recalls Edwige Fenech’s own stalking
ordeal in a parking garage … as
well as any number of elevator attacks, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/giallo-source-code-from-vohrers-dead.html">ranging from <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b> to <b>CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS</b>, all the way to De Palma’s <b>DRESSED TO KILL</b>.</a> </span></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So we see <b>STRIP NUDE</b> taking the plot from <b>SOLANGE</b> and the killer from <b>DAUGHTERS</b>, and then transplanting this Schoolgirls-in-Peril root to the sleaze-art-sleaze world of a fashion house: A place where impotent, morbidly obese men whimper for human contact and predatory, abusive bisexuals use their positions of power to force their own urges on helpless employees. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It is about as un-p.c. as you might imagine, with rampant sexism, sadism, homophobia—in short, a movie whose sexual politics aim for nothing but “misogyny” and “poor taste”. Women exist to be ogled, deceived, and abused, and any dramatic weight that maybe could be carried by the social implications of the murder are reduced, by the last scene, to a joke about anal sex.<span style="color: yellow;">**</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">(The character given to Edwige Fenech is a particular bummer, as her stock damsel-in-distress-ness is actually made more pathetic, more helpless, more abused here; in her relationship with a male photographer she is absolutely dominated by his “hairy macho bullshit” … and is written in a way so that it seems she enjoys it.)</span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>THE
RECONSTITUTED KILLER:</b> The motorcycle-masked killer in <b>STRIP NUDE</b>. In
his first appearance, he stalks his victim in the dark (so dark that
taking screencaps of the scene on the milky Blu-ray made it hard to even
see him). In the subsequent set-pieces, the killer’s presented in a
series of close-ups that fetishize his motorcycle accessories. (Though,
interestingly enough, unlike the other films, we never see <b>STRIP NUDE’s</b>
killer ride a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bike</span>.)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">C</span>ertainly,
on rewatches, one appreciates some of the aesthetic and technical
choices made around the sleaze: The use of hyper-saturated colors to
light whole scenes; the staging of
set-pieces like the one with Femi Benussi’s character; even a key detail—running
water—that must be present at all of the crime scenes for the killer to
take revenge … not unlike the way that “rain” must be present at all of
the killings in Argento’s <b>TRAUMA</b> in order for the killer to go through with
the ritual crime …</span></i>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Regardless,
work like Bianchi’s typifies one of the problems inherent in writing
and talking about the Giallo genre—i.e., how do you talk about a <b>STRIP
NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER</b> in the same terms, and in the same breath, as a
<b>DEEP RED</b>? Part of this problem I answered in my review of the
uber-sleazy <b>SO SWEET, SO DEAD</b> … there, the sleaze is inseparable from
the aesthetic and artistic success of the movie, and thus creates a class of Giallo
where unrepentant sleaze is one and the same with the movie’s art
appeal; for more about this, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/giallo-identikit-005-so-sweet-so-dead.html">see my review</a>.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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I say, though, no matter what one thinks of Bianchi’s
sleaze-for-sleaze’s-sake sensibility, <b>STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER</b> has,
bar none, one of the downright funkiest soundtracks of any Giallo of the
‘70s? It does.)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And that brings us to 1981’s <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b>. I’ve <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/review-cast-12-1981s-night-school-and.html">already talked about its several <i>Giallo</i> connections</a> but the killer’s visual signature is certainly one of the mains.
Notice, also, how the killer’s brutal m.o. also calls back to <b>DAUGTHERS</b>. In <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b>, the victims’ heads are decapitated by a wicked blade that is shot, often, in the same manner as the meat cleaver from Dallamano’s film<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span>and is as much an integral accessory of the killer as his motorcycle, jacket, or helmet. (Also, it goes without saying that the female college students being stalked and killed during <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b> can be seen as the older counterparts of those students in the <i>Giallo</i> trilogy.)</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Here, the first decapitation is represented by the film “fading” to red.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><i>The extreme edge (and blunt violence) of the
Motorcycle Killer’s meat cleaver gets picked up again<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>in <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b>, where that film’s Motorcycle Killer wields a ceremonial
big blade whose edge repeatedly separates victims from their heads. (In
<b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?</b>, it’s a cop’s hand and a victim’s
body, Black Dahlia-like, that get taken apart by the blade.)</i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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similarities among these three movies: Two of the three have the twist that
the motorcycle-masked killer is actually a woman (I won’t spoil which
two). And, interestingly enough, <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b> also carries over, in
slightly watered-down form, the specious sexual politics of <b>STRIP NUDE</b> (see, e.g., the squirmy scene between the headmistress and one of her students, in her bedroom, right before she is beheaded herself).</span></span></i></td></tr>
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only is the killer’s <b>DAUGHTERS</b> iconography repeated here, both films
also feature an extended, high-speed chase that involves the police
killing their motorcycle-studded suspect ... a suspect whose capture does exactly zero to bring the real culprit to justice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">**</span>See below for my first reaction to watching the movie, some years ago. I’ve softened my stance a bit, at least to the extent that Bianchi’s brazen, bald-faced sleaze is, in some ways, an aesthetic unto itself—and the kind of aesthetic uniquely afforded by European exploitation of a certain era (watch the kitchen scene between Henry Silva and Barbara Bouchet in Bianchi’s <b>CRY OF A PROSTITUTE</b>, e.g., and try to keep your jaw from hitting the floor): </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“The Bianchi I’ve seen gives me the impression that his only real aim in making movies was to be as offensive (and to make as much ripoff money while doing it) as possible. And not offensive in any kind of interesting way—<i>ero guro</i> envelope pushing, or narrative experimentation that hinges on that offensiveness (like extended set pieces of gore that suspend narrative time), or using genre conventions as an excuse to push societal taboos. Basically the stuff that Fulci/Argento/Martino/Miraglia/Ercoli et al. regularly excelled at. Bianchi, instead, always feels needlessly mean and cheap and nasty (not to mention misogynistic). His is the type of sensibility that would end a movie about a botched abortion on a joke about the hero forcing his girlfriend to have anal sex just so they don’t have to worry ‘about that sort of thing</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span> in the future. I mean, really?”</span> </span></span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-80065741729452079562016-03-30T02:30:00.001-05:002016-03-30T02:38:48.828-05:00[REVIEW-CAST #12-a] An Addendum on 1981’s NIGHT SCHOOL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">After posting <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/review-cast-12-1981s-night-school-and.html"> my brief review of <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b></a>—covering how it uniquely intersects, and makes a hybrid out of, the <i>Giallo</i> and Italian Cannibal <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">genre</span>s—I realized I’d forgotten one of the other cinematic echoes I wanted to highlight: Carol Reed’s <b>THE THIRD MAN</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b>, it seems safe to say that the melancholy cemetery scene that almost ends the film (that really <b>*should*</b> have ended the film, imo, instead of the jokey, slapstick sting in the tail that we get instead) is at least a casual callback to that oh-so-famous final scene in Reed’s picture.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In both films we get a conflicted female protagonist, leaving the funeral of her lover, and choosing to walk the long distance home instead of accepting a ride from the man she believes responsible for her lover’s death. The screenshot sequence that follows certainly gives one the sense that somebody involved wanted to give a nod to Reed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Another film that comes to mind, that pays homage to <b>THE THIRD MAN</b> with its final shot, is Robert Altman’s <b>THE LONG GOODBYE</b>.)</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fans of underseen</i> Gialli <i>like <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/giallo-identikit-012-monster-of.html"><b>THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE</b></a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/giallo-identikit-013-death-steps-in.html"><b>DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK</b></a>
will recognize Italian-American actor Leonard Mann, who here plays the
lead detective investigating the baroque and ritualistic murders
overtaking a certain Boston college.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">[The <b>REVIEW-CAST</b> series was set up as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a way to include</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> shorter, less formally rigorous reviews for the site</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>less formally rigorous than the <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Giallo%20Identikit"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GIALLO </span>IDENTIKIT</b></a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Krimi%20Pocket%20Review"><b>KRIMI POCKET REVIEW</b></a> series for example. I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'m still working on a way to get the backlog of these shorter <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">reviews posted<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Also, as with every single post on this site, <b>SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">]</span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Having now finally seen 1981<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span>s <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b>, I can <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">confirm that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it fit<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s</span> co<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tably <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">under the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">banner</span> of</span> the larger <i>Giallo</i> genre<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">C</span>er<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tainly it qualif<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ies as part of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my</span> sub-genre of Post-<i>Gialli</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, which <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">includes </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">movies </span>that are expressly working in, and referring to, a recognized <i>Giallo</i> tradition, but that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fall <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">outside of</span> the initial <i>Giallo</i> boom <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(</span>1970<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">–</span>75)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and most often are being shot and produced outside of Italy. (They<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> are </span>films that also sometimes<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>get classified <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as part of</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the Slasher genre ... </span></span></span>for more on these sub-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">categories, and the represent<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ative films in each,</span> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/introduction-annotated-list-inspired-by.html">check out my ever-growing Intro<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Page</span> here</a>). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t</span>he<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> presence of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Italian genre stalwart <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leonard Mann<b><span style="color: yellow;">**</span></b> also helps <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">certify it <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as a</span> <i>G</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>iallo</i>, as does the baroque and elaborate style of its murder set-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pieces (I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span>m thinking esp. of t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he murder in the dreamy<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, mus<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">um-sized aquari<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">um). Further, the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">distinct <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">costuming</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of the killer, which is cribbed from both <b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?</b> and <b>STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER</b>, ce<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ments the <i>Giallo</i> link pretty securely. (I hope to cover the evolution of the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s look in an upcoming <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Giallo%20Source%20Code"><b>[</b></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Giallo%20Source%20Code"><b>S<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">OURCE</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">C<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ODE]</span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> entry.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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sans-serif;">There</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s also the film</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">wist<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">re:</span> the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> identity</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, a reveal that is, unfortunately, the weakest expression of its <i>Giallo</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> influences. For anybody who</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s seen even a handful of <i>Gialli</i>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s a twist that gets telegraphed almost from the start of the film, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">thus comes as no surprise at all</span>. Essentially, we get the twist <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that</span> Argento<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">made fresh in his</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> seminal <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>, wh<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ere<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the husband <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of the actua<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">l killer con<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fesses to the killings and sacrifices himself when the police close in, in order to shield his unhinged wife from punishment for her crimes.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>T<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HE</span> CRYSTAL CONNECTION: </b>Drew Snyder and Rachel Ward, as the anthropology professor and his live-in lover. On one level, Snyder</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s character is no different than the Alberto Ranieri character from <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>,
a protective and delusional husband who sacrifices himself in order to
protect the real killer, his wife Monica (here inhabited by Ward).</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">positively more</span> inter<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">esting, though, is how <b>NIGHT SCHOOL</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>’s</b> <i>Giallo</i> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">influen<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ce gets <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mixed-and-matched</span> with another Italian <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span>boom<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span> genre that I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve been watching a lot of<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> lately:<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Italian <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cannibal film.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just like in those taboo-busting movies from Deodato, Lenzi, et al., here we get a main character who is a university professor/researcher (Drew Snyder), who spends a fair bit of his screen<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> time showing </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>authentic,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>mondo,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">documentary-style<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>photos of native <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">people and their rituals. We get didactic, heavy-handed conversations suggesting that, when compared to native peoples from around the w<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">orld,</span> Western </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>civilized</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">” <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">socie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ties (and the people in them) are the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">truly barbaric ones. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And we get a crass, bald-faced appropriation by Western<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, white ch<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aracters of the rituals and cultures to which they</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span 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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>ITALIAN <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CANNIBAL MOVIES</span> 101:</b> As Snyder</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s anthropologist intones, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Scenes like th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is are a direct link to man</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s primitive past. Modern man has only to take a short step to wind up in the primeval jungle<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of his ancestors.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Snyder’s anthropology professor has taken his teaching assistant (played by Ward)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>as his live-in lover. It’s suggested that the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ir </span>relationship—which is no<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w marred by repeated accus<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ations of inf<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">idelity on the part of the professor</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—started with their research work in the field. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What we find is that the trauma caused by th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is relationship</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s ebb and flow is what </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>fuels the kill<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing</span> spree <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">running</span> through the film. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, that</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> this tortured, volati<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">le re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lationship between Snyder <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and Ward is the movie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">most sustained</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> expression of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Canni<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bal film <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">appropriation</span>. For it is these two Western characters who appropriate and re-use the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sacred rituals that they have <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fallen in love <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tudying</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—and they use<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> them<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, of course, in the most sensationa<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">l and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">insensitive</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of ways<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">: as an excuse to kill college coeds.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First, we<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> get the appropriation of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">these “<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">native</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">” rituals in the bedroom, with Snyder and Ward using ceremonial dyes and markings <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as a part of</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> their sexual <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">buildup</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. It <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">seems clear that this use of ritual is both part of their initial attraction to each other (a kind of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>exo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ticizing the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> other</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">” <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as 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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When this sexual healing fails to take, the appropriation <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">then turns</span> to violence</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span 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sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>uncivilized</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span 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sans-serif;">val rituals begin intruding, violently, into the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>civilized</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> mod<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ern day</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Like in so many Cannibal exploi<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tation movies, a major metropolitan city (usually New York) gets </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>invaded</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> early on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the movie by a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>native</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> killer whose ritual murders baffle the m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">odern-day detectives investigating them. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(And, in the case of the Cannibal films, the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">se rituals most often get chased back to their supposed source, in some <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">undevel<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">oped, third-world nation.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>m thinking, e.g., of the structure used in Marino Girolami</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST</b>, Umberto Lenzi</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s <b>EATEN ALIVE!</b>, </span>Antonio Margheriti</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>CANNIBAL APO</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>CALYPSE</b>, </span>and, to a l<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">esser extent, Ruggero Deodato</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>CUT AND RUN</b>, which <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">also happens to star Leonard Mann</span>.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fur<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t</span>her</span>, what <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w</span>e <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">learn</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of</span> the killer</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s motives, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the particular <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">form <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">her</span> violence takes, re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">veals that everything she does </span>is based in some way on th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ose same rituals <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tudied by the unhappy couple. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ward, in her guise as killer, is killing to protect the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>sacred</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> family unit that she and Snyder studied so <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">earnestly</span> while out in the wilds of the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ir field research. We learn that each female victim has had some ki<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nd of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lationship</span></span> with Snyder</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s professor—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">from innocent flir<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tation to full-on sexual affair</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and Ward</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s understanding of the rituals that bind <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the societies she</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tudied has convinced her that it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s ethical, proper, and (indeed) necessary for her to murder these women in order to keep sacred and whole her union with Snyder. (Her sense of this is only amplified once it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s dis<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">closed that she is c<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">arrying Snyder</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s child.) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Further, her insistence <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">decapitating each of her <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">victims</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and then storing their heads in water after the kill</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>stems from th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ose native</span> practices she stu<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">died<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. As she explains to Mann</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s det<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ective:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Ward:</b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How can you make a comparison between this kind of butchery <i>[the current<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> murders]</span></i> and t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he tradition of Eastern culture? These rituals existed years be<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fore this continent was even discovered. The headhunters of New Guinea are not cannibals or savages. They seriously believe that in taking the heads of their enemies they are possessing their very life<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> force.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br />Mann:</b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>And by <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">putting the heads in water?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br />Ward:</b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>In this way they believe they</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re cleansing the evil spirits from the souls of their enemies<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, leaving only the purity of the spir<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br />Mann (nodding skeptically):</b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mmm-hmm.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i</span>n <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ward</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> motorcycle-masked killer</span>, we get the inter<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">section, the embodiment, of the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">se two Italian genres that the film repeatedly re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ferences.</span></span></span> We get dream-logic styled murder set-pieces, whose dream logic is shaped and defined by <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the </span>violent<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, mondo-style rituals we find in one Italian Cannibal film after another. We get the haunted, modern <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spaces of a major metropolitan city <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">á la the <i>Giallo</i></span>,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> with the haunting stemming from the lost wilds of New Guinea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and it r<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aises the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> question: Just how many other <i>Giallo</i>/Cannibal hybrids e<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">xist?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> L<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eonard <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jacobs</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">March, 2016</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">**</span></b>I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span>ve covered Leonard Mann</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">work</span> in the <i>Giallo</i> genre in a co<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">uple <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Giallo%20Identikit"><b>[IDENTIKIT]</b></a> entries on the site: 197<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet 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"trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/giallo-identikit-012-monster-of.html"><b>THE MONSTER OF </b></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/giallo-identikit-012-monster-of.html"><b>FLORENCE</b></a>.</span></span></span></span></span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-65334762444520686392016-03-17T19:11:00.002-05:002016-03-19T19:58:33.199-05:00BUSTING GIALLO MYTHS #1: Tilde’s Death in TENEBRAE (and the Giallo Genre in General) “Doesn’t Make Sense”<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[NOTE: One of the side effects of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">seeing the <i>Giallo</i> gain <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">increasing</span> traction in pop culture, is seeing various<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> unexamined <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">myths about the genre <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">repeated over and over. This series hopes to counteract some of those myths, while also c<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">elebrating <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">what we fans find so compelling about the genre.]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Synapse’s recent Steelbook release of Dario Argento’s <b>TENEBRAE</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> includes, among a pleth<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ora of extras, a feature-leng<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">th commentary by <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>minent
Argento scholar Maitland McDonagh<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span>In it,
she makes a comment about Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span>’s murder that I have seen (and heard)
repeated now almost to death. It’s a myth about how seriously we should
take that scene—a myth that essentially rolls its eyes at the
scene, by arguing that it “doesn’t make sense”. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The tone McDonagh
takes while talking about <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this moment</span> signals that <i>she</i> clearly doesn’t take it
seriously, and suggests that the film</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s success</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/krimi-vs-giallo-what-im-talking-about.html">its frisson, its <i>Stimmung</i></a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">occurs</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in spite of these sorts of scenes</span></span>:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When we get to the moment just before </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span>’s</span></span></span></span> murder—at the tail
end of the visual “loop” that comes courtesy of the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">film</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s </span>bravura, style-as-substance Louma Crane shot—the camera returns to Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> and
shows her, agitated, suddenly deciding to change her shirt. She
exchanges one white shirt for another, in a sequence that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">too many critics have suggested </span>exists
only to show the audience a bit of the actress’ skin. McDonagh says
this:</span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“There’s somebody in the house, a killer, who catches her
<i>[Tilde]</i> at the moment where she’s doing what all women do when they’re
really upset and have had a fight with their significant other, which is
she takes off her shirt. And then puts on another shirt that <i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[</span>laughing<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">]</span></i>
I’m not really sure what the difference is, you know, she didn’t get
into her bathrobe so she can go take a nice long bath and think about
her troubles. She just puts on another tight white shirt.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Perhaps
the first time I heard this criticism—implying that it was just another
example of the genre’s “hairy macho bullshit,” <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">s prerequis<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ite (and </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>sexist) male
gaze (and that<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> any<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>cinematic meaning it carried could then be laughed at)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>—was
in the commentary delivered by two other eminent <i>Giallo</i> scholars, Alan
Jones and Kim Newman, on Arrow</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s release of the film. Their assessment there sounds awfully similar to
McDonagh’s:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jones: </span>“Now, y<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ou</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re just about to be murdered, so what do you do? Yes, you decide to chan<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ge your T-shirt.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Newman: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>Into another, identical outfit.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jones: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>Ah, now here she goes, this is where she changes her</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>she</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s being threatened, she now decides to change her T-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">shirt.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Jones also goes on<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to mist<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">akenly claim the scene is based on one <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">showing Edwige Fenech changing her clothes, in <b>THE CASE OF THE BL</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>OODY IRIS</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">; it is not. See below for the source.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Again, there’s the implication that Argento, by
having Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> change her shirt at this moment, is exposing a weakness in
his script. <span style="color: yellow;">(Which itself is an example of a lar<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ger myth: </span>That <i>Giallo</i> scripts, almost without exception, are poorly
written<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span>I addressed this criticism re: Argento’s <b>OPERA</b> in the third and fo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">urth</span> sections of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html">my essay here</a>).</span> Or that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Argento</span> is</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>because of his
unrepentant<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and</span> sexist gaze</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>his <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sub</span>conscious desire to ogle his
actresses at every turn</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>having Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> change her shirt just to show a
little skin. That it doesn’t, on any other level, “make sense”.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(And,
let’s be clear: Is there plenty of male-gaze ogling going on in the
<i>Giallo</i> genre? Is it absolutely jam-packed with cheap-minded,
lowest-common-denominator producers and filmmakers who want nothing but
to fill their movies with sex and nudity in the hopes of generating
bigger box office? Yes. And again I say </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>yes</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span> … the same
could be said for the Hitchcock / De Palma strain of
Hollywood thrillers … and Slashers … and
the German <i>Krimi </i>… but, just because the male gaze is an overriding element being expressed by the film, it doesn’t mean that the
film isn’t *also* up to something else in those scenes. <b>PEEPING TOM</b>
isn’t just about objectifying women is it? Isn’t it also shot in <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span>
way t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hat</span> implicates the audience in this destructive,
objectifying gaze? Isn’t it also an exploration of
the traumatic, tangled-up reasons *why* a
character would or could be conditioned to act this way?)</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And,</span> what does it mean for a movie to make sense? Does a movie direct<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ed by</span> John Cassavetes make the same kind of sense as one directed by <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alfred<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>Hitchcock? Are Jacques Rivette
and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Roberto Rossellini</span> working under the same definition—on the same narrative
plane—of “sense”? And is there only one kind of cinematic
sense worth <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">our</span> time and attention?</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />One of the major influences on Argento—beyond </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">German Expressionism, </span></span></span></span></span></span>F</span>ilm <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">N</span>oir,
the <i>Krimi</i>—is (as has been affirmed by book after
book on the man) the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">work</span> of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Michelangelo Antonioni</span>. So ask the same
question of his films:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Do the actions of the characters played by
Jack Nicholson (<b>THE PASSENGER</b>), David Hemmings (<b>BLOW-UP</b>), <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tomás Milián</span>
(<b>IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN</b>), and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lea Massari</span> (<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">L</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>AVVENTURA</span></b>) make sense? Do their character arcs—their
movement through fragmentary and illogical plots—make any kind of
*conventional* sense? “Realistic” sense?<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Of course they don’t. But
for those who would argue that those films are successful, that the
experience of watching them is a persuasive one—aesthetically
persuasive, narratively persuasive, cinematically persuasive—the
argument would be that they “make sense” on another, more
important level. That they, for
instance, follow the internal logic set up by the filmmakers, the tone and performance of the actors. That
they make “artistic sense,” “poetic sense,” <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">make sense according to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dream logic</span>” ins<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tead of rational lo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gic</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So how does Tilde’s illogical change of
clothes make sense? </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Because, as Newman, Jones, McDonagh (and all the
rest) seem to miss, Tilde’s clothes-changing murder is
nothing more or less than a visual quotation of a murder scene from
cinema past</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—from </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>a film whose influence can be seen across
Argento’s body of work: <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Robert Siodmak</span>’s <b>THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946)</b>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Just
like Argento “quotes” and restages the “girl on the beach” scenes from <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span></span></span></span></span> <b>SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1959)</span></b>—sourcing them for the creation of <b>TENEBRAE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>s</b> f<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">irst flashback scene</span></span>—he pulls a number of images from <b>SPIRAL STAIRCASE</b> to use a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s his </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">own “</span></span></span></span></span></span>ra<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w material</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span>he staging of Tilde’s death is nothing
more or less than a restaging of the first murder in <b>STAIRCASE</b>. And thus<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> its </span>making sense must be considered in light of this source, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this callback<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, this echo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> across screens.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SPIRAL STAIRCASE</b> </span></span>we watch a woman as she <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">changes her cl<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">othes</span></span>. She sta<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">res out the window</span> of her ren<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ted room<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">; she seems tired. The camera, after watching her close the window, wanders over to <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">her closet. It slowly app<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">roaches the clothes hanging there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>we see the clothes move, seemingly on the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ir own<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, unbeknownst to her</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>unt<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">il the camera is close enough to show us the eye of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">someone who <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is hiding behind them. The camera continues to app<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">roach, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">magnifying the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s eye until we can see i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n it a reflection: The reflection of the woman changing her clothes on the other side of t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he room</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">key image, nested in th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is</span> first <b>SPIRAL STAIRCASE</b> murder, ge<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ts reused by Argento in <b>DEEP RED</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>that of </span>the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s eye that appears i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n the closet of Amanda Righetti</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s home, just before she</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s killed in the bath<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. It is also, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">perhaps, the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">single most <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">substantive precur<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sor to his repeated use of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Argento eye</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> that became so famous in his work.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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camera’s slow creep into the first victim’s closet, the one that leads
to the eye shot, also prefigures the closet scene in Bob Clark’s <b>BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)</b> and the
brutal murder in the sex-show worker’s dressing room in Lucio Fulci’s <b>NEW
YORK RIPPER (1982)</b>.</span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span>his sense of the stylistic (and thematic) importance of reflective surfaces</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—esp. how they <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stand<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>in, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">cinematically,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>embedded <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and hidden trauma</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is also a quintessential<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Argento concern<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span>hink, e.g., how reflections and clo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">seups in eyes are used in <b>OPERA</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; 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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While she struggles with the long sleeves of the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> dress</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>we get repeated shots of her <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hand<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s and arms working and gesti<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">culating to get the dress on</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>the killer <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">strikes<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. 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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That’s the description of what happens in the first murder of
194<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>’s <b>SPIRAL STAIRCASE</b>. It is also the description of what happens
to Tilde’s character in <b>TENEBRAE</b>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In setup, in exec<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ution, in staging, we get an indisputable proto-example of <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">TENEBRAE</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s</span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>nonsensical</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span> murder; echo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, after echo, after echo.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>hat Argento builds
on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this source material and adds</span> a moment that has become perhaps *the*
iconic moment of the film—Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> staring, shock<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ed</span>, through the gash in
her shirt—speaks to his skills (and intuition) as a filmmaker at the
time. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The argument that Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s actions</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span>, in the moments
before her death, don’t make conventional sense, logical sense,
TV-movie sense, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">misses </span>the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>point of Argento’s film entirely<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">;</span> misses his aesthetic<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,</span>
his body of work. Misunderstanding his work<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> like this</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">encourages</span> an unfortunate myth—that <i>Gialli</i> can only be successful,
“believable,” convincing pieces of cinema if they make sense in
the same generic <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ay that </span></span>(say) the latest Oscar-bait drama makes
sense.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It is a myth that, if it ever managed
to come true, would signal the <i>Giallo</i> genre as fully and truly dead. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H</span>ere’s hoping it’s the myth that dies first.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Note how Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> throwing her head back in disgust</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></i>to expose her neck
and allow her hair to fall away from her head<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (</span>with closed
eyes, as if she could be asleep or dead)—foreshadows the death shot of her lover that is<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">later in this same scene, still to come.</span></span> </span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Also: How Tild<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span>’s tired, head-slumping
movements ape the same kind
of tired-of-life body language the victim shows in the <b>SPIRAL STAIRCASE</b> scene capped above.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-35020215721540329702016-01-26T22:07:00.001-06:002016-01-26T22:07:08.663-06:00GIALLO IDENTIKIT #015 [THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH aka IL DOLCE CORPO DI DEBORAH (1968)]<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jean Sorel and Carroll Baker, idyllic at the opening of Romolo Guerrieri’s <b>SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH (1968)</b>. Sorel and Baker were to 1960s’ Gialli what George Hilton and Edwige Fenech were to the 1970s’: sometimes together, sometimes apart, they populated the <span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>60s/early <span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>70s Giallo landscape like no other couple. This essay on <b>DEBORAH</b> will spend time covering some of those examples, and setting up some kind on context for the particular strain of Gialli they participated in, what Kim Newman calls the “pre-Argento” Giallo.</i></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">VERSION WATCHED: <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-screencap-comparisons.html">German X-Rated Eurocult Collection Blu-ray</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My Giallo Rating: ★★</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">★</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #990000;">½</span></b></span></span></span> (out of 5)<br />Subcategory (if any): <br /> i. Inheritance Giallo (aka, Pre-Argento Giallo)<br /> ii. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Proto-Giallo</span></span> </span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;">In My Giallo Top 50 (Y/N):</span> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/ipcress/list/50-315-the-giallo-list-what-ive-seen-and/">No</a> </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Kim Newman, in his commentary for Argento’s <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>, spends some time discussing the difference in Gialli that come before Argento and after. According to Newman, the bulk of the “pre-Argento” Gialli had plots, and killers, driven not by some psychosexual trauma embedded in the past, but by something more rational and mundane: greed.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The pre-Argento Gialli are, in general, *not* obsessed with seeing, with the nature of perception, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with a</span> dread generated by <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the</span> sense that the real world is being overcome—overwritten—by dream logic and irrational urges. Etc. They are not, in short, defined by the obsessions that would come to dominate the genre in the wake of Argento’s success. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(It’s true, of course, that part of the reason </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Argento’s</span></span> artistic vision changed the shape of Gialli is because it made money—his imitators latched on to his patented illogic and oneiric concerns because it was the thing they needed to *at least try to* imitate, in order to cash in. But I think it could also be argued that his concerns loomed so large, possessed such a gravity to begin with, that they endured in the genre even as box office receipts trailed off.)</span><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So, most of these early Gialli had plots that could be boiled down to one killer (or set of killers) committing the murders only and in order to steal someone else’s inheritance. Even lurid, pathologically violent Gialli like Bava’s <b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964)</b>—with their baroque and highly stylized layers of sex and gore, dream and nightmare—are, after all, down to nothing but a scheme to keep (or steal) someone else</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s money. No matter how much nudity or sensuality might feature—no matter how psychotic, even supernatural, the plot *appears* to be—most often, it’s just lust for money that explains the film.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And what Newman doesn’t mention during that particular commentary—but that’s just as key to understanding this version of the genre—is that this “Inheritance Scheme” model comes, almost fully formed, out of the German Krimi. It is one of several </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Krimi </span></span>conventions—plot mechanics, stock characters, visual tropes, thematic concerns, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">iconography</span>—that were bred in the Krimi and then “spliced off” into the new root that would make the Giallo<b><span style="color: yellow;">*</span></b>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Romolo Guerrieri’s 1968 Giallo <b>THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH</b>—starring Jean Sorel and Carroll Baker as leads—is one such example of this pre-Argento, “Inheritance Scheme” Giallo. Despite a few irrational trappings—despite regular dollops of Baker’s naked backside and sort-of sex scenes—it is not part of the psychosexual template that so many now associate with the Giallo’s DNA. And it is not, on a thematic level, about challenging the rational order of the characters’ world—there is no anxiety <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/krimi-vs-giallo-notes-on-question-of.html">(as David Sanjek put it, in discussing the worldview of the Giallo)</a> that the resolution of the mystery will “fail fully to restore either the viewers</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span> or the characters</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span> faith in a coherent moral or perceptual universe”. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">LOT OF TIME SPENT ON THE TRAVELOGUE</span>:</b> After the opening credits (and lover’s embrace) on an unidentified beach, the action moves to a wintry, mountain clime, with Sorel and Baker on their honeymoon (the visuals remind me both of the opening of <b>PHENOMENA</b> and the killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s painting in <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>). This travel-as-plot is a device that shows up quite a bit in the pre-Argento Giall<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">o</span>. </span></span></i></td></tr>
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learn from their conversation that the pair have come here from
America, to visit Sorel’s old stomping grounds <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in</span> Geneva. As Baker says:
“I want to go to Geneva because it’s your hometown. And I want to know
all about you, you belong to me.” During this travel montage, we also
get subtle but effective physical acting from the two leads,
performances that betray a familiarity between them that</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s believable. And that gets tested by the suspicions that arise between them as the movie goes on.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT]</b></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The other influence on this particular strain of pre-Argento Gialli—an influence that becomes fairly obvious, once you’ve seen the film—is Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 love-triangle tensioner <b>DIABOLIQUE</b>. And the important thing to note <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">here<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">No matter the increasing “weird” factor, the stylization and degree of theatricality applied to the set-pieces in Clouzot’s film—one thinks of the uncanny, eldritch scene of the husband’s bedraggled corpse, wet clams for eyes, rising dead from the tub—the plot is still the Krimi-familiar one, rational and sane: Money, money, money.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So, in the </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>60s, this double-sourced plot—an inheritance scheme that often also contains a toxic love triangle—was what one meant when one said “Giallo”:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The examples most often cited are those films directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker (alongside a revolving cast of suspicious lovers</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>Sorel, Jean-Louis <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trintignant</span>, Erika Blanc, Horst Frank, Marina Coffa, Anna Proclemer, Lou Castel, etc.). So <b>ORGASMO (1969)</b>, <b>SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE (1969)</b>, and <b>A QUIET PLACE TO KILL (PARANOIA; 1970)</b>. These films, despite their injections of “swinging” ‘60s free love, of bed-hopping bored richie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s</span>—as Jean Louis-</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trintignant</span></span></span> intones in <b>SO SWEET SO PERVERSE</b>: “<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even more exciting, is knowing that it keeps getting harder and harder to feel excited</span>”</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>still often feel stubbornly old-fashioned, dated, even juvenile when compared to the Argento-and-afterwards Gialli. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A</span> perfect example of this is the interminable “Twister” game that occurs in <b>SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH</b> between Sorel and Baker, a scene that is supposed to be perhaps risqué or sexy—with their bodies draped across each other by the rules of the game—or, at the very least, *fun*, but instead plays as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tedious</span>: Baker’s eye-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">killing</span> lime-green onesie, the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">voice</span></span> on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the</span> record telling the “boys and girls” where to put their <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bodies</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>in fact, just it</span>s sheer, padded length ... everything works against it, moving the needle away from <b>DIABOLIQUE</b> and more toward <b>BEACH BLANKET BINGO</b>.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And there were just as many non-Lenzi versions of this Giallo template: There’s the Italian Spanish co-production—a film which actually crept into the </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>70s, completely oblivious to Argento’s influence—<b>IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE</b>. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">S</span>tarring Sorel, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maurizio Bonuglia</span> (who himself often played the Sorel role, the rakish, scheming, a-holish gigolo</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—someone so </span></span>aware of his own sex appeal that he actively used it to eff <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">people over and steal),<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><b>KOMMISSAR X’s</b> Tony Kendall, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Analía Gadé</span>. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gadé</span></span></span>, whose role comes off <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as (mostly) nothing more than <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a ringer for</span></span> Baker</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s trademark, </span></span>is the source of the money in the plot. To one degree or another she becomes entangled with all three men, her affections changing as her perception of their honesty shifts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And the film’s staging gives us further example of this difference in type. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I.e., in a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">G</span>iallo like Fulci</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s <b>LIZARD IN A WOMAN</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>S SKIN</b>, the inclusion of a swan is made on the strength of its feverish associations. Its menace. Its irrational connections to repressed dreams and bodily terror. The bird first exists in the film as part of a strange, symbolically unsettling painting that rests above Florinda Bolkan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s bed. In it, the swan appears to have its stomach and/or sexual organs replaced by a black triangle. It seems symbolic even though we lack the ability to interpret it. It seems menacing in the way that strange symbols in dreams menace.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Later, the swan appears in Bolkan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s dreams, descending from the sky, its now-ragged black-hole triangle seemingly aimed at swallowing Bolkan's body or head. The almost Muppet-like </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span>angry bird</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span> expression on its face disconcerting despite the fact that it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s obviously <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fake</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In <b>HURRICANE</b>, the swan instead serves as a kind of decadent or colorful prop, a material example of how extravagant and bored these rich heiresses and prepp<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y</span> gigolos are in life. They</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re so bored, and have so much <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">excess</span> income, that they aimlessly buy swans to populate their pools. When they become bored with just watching the swans (these p<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hysical manifestations<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of their money)</span></span>, they don <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">generic</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>pagan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> masks (no doubt traditional masks appropriated, without the slightest respect, from other, less materially wealthy cultures) and terrorize the swans, chasing them around the pool within an inch of their poor animal lives. The swan is not an irrational intrus<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ion from t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he world of se<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">xual nig<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ht</span>mare ... it</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a fashionable</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">accessory that will eventually get <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hrown away by its owner.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(It is this craven meanness that does set the movie apart from some of the other examples in th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> same sub-genre. When Sorel and his previously secret lover force their way into Gadé</span></span></span></span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s home and make it clear that they are, from a mixture of greed and boredom, going to menace her like they did that swan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span>even as they openly eff and force themselves on her sexually</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>well, it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s a little startling. And nudges the mov<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ie away from Lenzi</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s influence and more toward something like a </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’70s Martino.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE BLUE MOVIE THAT NEVER QUITE GETS THERE:</b> Though there<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s some gratuitous use of skin, and Sorel and Baker are portrayed as being healthily in lust for each other, the film<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s depictions<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>whether meant to come off as sleazy or sensual<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>never quite succeed. Esp. never quite succeed in canceling out the rest of the film<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s persistently old-fashioned feel.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">One film from the Lenzi/Baker mold that delightfully sheds all pretense to rationality</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>and ups the sensuality<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, while aiming for </span>a kind of avant-garde madness</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>is Giulio Questi’s 196<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span> <b>DEATH LAID AN EGG</b>. Here we have <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trintignant</span> married to money-woman <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gina Lollobrigida</span>, and the usually scantily clothed Ewa Aulin as their “house guest” who proves the third in the triangle<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Questi’s
film, though going through some of the motions of the Lenzi/Baker plot,
uses abrupt, elliptical editing, intoxicating sound cues, and a total
disregard for “realism” (whatever that is) to plunge face-forward into avant-garde and weird territory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(Note: There are at least two versions of this film, German and Italian, currently available on Blu-ray. At some point I’m going to do a comparison write-up on the differences, and post some caps to give a general idea of the picture quality.)</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Other versions<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of</span> this same Giall<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">o strain include</span> Lucio Fulci’s <b>ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER (aka, PERVERSION STORY)</b>, Luciano Ercoli’s <b>FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION</b>, the Italian-Spanish co-production <b>DEATH HAUNTS MONICA</b> (also starring Sorel), even the Krimi/Giallo Hybrid <b>DOUBLE FACE (aka, LIZ AND HELEN)</b>, which takes </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>DIABOLIQUE</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span></b> eerie dance of “is he or isn’t he dead” and transplants it onto Margaret Lee’s character, and her appearance in some blue movies that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tantalizingly</span> (also: terrifyingly) seem to show her alive and making sex films after her death<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ... </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There’s also something to be said for just how many of these movies involve that key <b>DIABOLIQUE</b> construct of the rich but neglected woman who is beset by male hangers-on, who feign a love interest but who only really want her money<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. I</span>.e., the men, often, are portrayed as little better than gigolos, who have gained their position and wealth by “marrying up” to a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n </span>heiress or widow, and who now have grown so weary of pretending to be her husband that they are <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">desperate to see her dead.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">... </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Ultimately, this plot would get updated and grafted onto the psychosexual post-Argento Giallo in films like Martino’s sublime <b>STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH</b>, which is, on the one hand, a <b>STRANGERS ON A TRAIN</b>-type murder scheme for money, but is really (i.e., really more effectively) a psychosexual grid of traumatic flashbacks, faceless sex maniacs, S&M <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dreamscapes</span>, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the</span> pervading sense that all men, even the ones that seem most charismatic or trustworthy, are really as wicked as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you can possibly imagine.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE LOVE TRIANGLE AND THE GHOST:</b> Once Sorel and Baker return to his home town, we learn (through the disapproving and pleasingly grumpy performance of genre great Luigi Pistilli) that Sorel</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s former flame committed suicide after he left. While he was away, in America, falling in love with rich heiress Baker, his heartbroken ex (played by Ida Galli) killed herself because of the grief he caused her. This ghostly suicide from the past then becomes the driving force for all those elements that appear supernatural</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>that appear to be driving Baker</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s character mad</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>but that in the end have that same, entirely rational explanation we</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">ve been discussing.</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>SWEET
BODY OF DEBORAH</b> is one of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t</span>hose non-Lenzi pairings of Baker and
Sorel, and is very much the same sort of story, a twisty, pseudo-supernatural mystery that threatens the apparent happy marriage of the rich woman and the gigolo man. In this case, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sorel broke it off with his lover in Geneva (genre regular Ida Galli, aka Ev<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">elyn Stewart) before meeting and marrying Baker in the US. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His happy <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">homecoming <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gets derailed when he learns that Galli</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> committed s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">uicide out of de<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spair for her lost love. He learns this news from a former <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">riend and confidante, played <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">disdainfully by Luigi Pistilli<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, who calls the suicide murder and blames Sorel for the crime.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This sets the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> rest of the movie in motion, an increasingly menacing quest to find out just what happened to Galli, and just who might be responsible. Baker starts to receive <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">threatening </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">phone calls from an unknown man who promises that she will be killed for her new husband</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s crimes<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (these calls coming presumably from Pistilli). And Baker</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s attempt to<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> escape this threat</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>—she rents a villa in the country where th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e two can be alone</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—gets f<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">urther complicated when<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Groucho</span>-eyed George Hilton shows up as the nosy, painter neighbor, who makes <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">no secret that he wants to take Baker to bed<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and builds his easel on a scaffolding so he can <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spy on the not-so-happy couple as they c<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">avort in their backyard.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(His character, in an exchange with
Baker, calls himself, with a kind of mischievous grin, a
voyeur. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He says it in a way that suggests the term, or that concept, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sh</span>ould’ve
been a new one to the movie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>going public in 196<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span>. Or, if not new, then scandalous. Esp. for one of the male leads to gleefully <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">admit to such behavior</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span>This is another case-in-point for the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">kind of vibe these old-fashioned Gialli have</span>: I.e., <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">b</span>y 196<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span>, after <b>PSYCHO</b>, after <b>PEEPING TOM</b>, after the
deep and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">complicated</span> portrayal those two films made of “bent”
voyeurs, <b>DEBORAH’s</b> handling of the term seems quaint. Even immature.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GHOST OF LOVERS PAST:</b> A series of flashbacks briefly show us the arc of Sorel and Galli<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s relationship<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>from carefree, adventurous lovers to a threatened, hopeless pair whose doomed parting is all but assured.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s enjoyment of the film largely depends on what you think makes for the most perfect Giallo formula<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and how much variation you can take from the dominant Argento / Fulci / Martino forms ... I will say, rewatching it <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-screencap-comparisons.html">on the recently released Blu</a> really caused me to re-evaluate the merits of the film, even if it trades in those modes of the Giallo that I value least. For Gialli it seems, presentation really is everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Leonard Jacobs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">*TWO THINGS:</span></b> 1. There are other splices, forking paths, major offshoots in the Giallo genre. For more on that, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-what-makes-giallo.html">see my thoughts here.</a> And 2. That’s not to say that the Krimi didn’t also have its own version of the psychosexual trauma plot that would come to dominate after <b>BIRD</b>. There are many Krimis that prefigure, sometimes uncannily, what Argento would later make his own: chief among them <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/002-krimi-pocket-review-phantom-of-soho.html"><b>PHANTOM OF SOHO (1964)</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>MONSTER OF LONDON CITY (1964)</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html"><b>ROOM 13 (1964)</b></a>, as well as a slightly later example, Alfred Vohrer</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s </span></span><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html"><b>SCHOOL OF FEAR (1969)</b></a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>VERSION WATCHED:</b></span> German X-rated Blu-ray <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-screencap-comparisons.html">(cap comparisons here)</a> <b><span style="color: yellow;">| LANGUAGE:</span> </b>Italian soundtrack with English subs; the Blu-ray does not include the English track <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| DIRECTOR:</b></span> Romolo Guerrieri </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| WRITER(S):</b></span> Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino </span><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| MUSIC:</b> </span>Nora Orlandi <b><span style="color: yellow;">| CINEMATOGRAPHER: </span></b>Marcello Masciocchi </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| CAST:</b></span> Carroll Baker (Deborah); Jean Sorel (Marcel); Ida Galli (Suzanne Boileau, as Evelyn Stewart); George Hilton (Robert Simack); Luigi Pistilli (Philip); Michel Bardinet (Police Commissioner); Valentino Macchi (Garagista); Mirella Pamphili (Telephone Clerk); Domenico Ravenna (Doctor); Giuseppe Ravenna (Maitre d'Hotel); Renato Montalbano (Telephone Man) </span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-29886657210062132932016-01-24T21:04:00.002-06:002016-01-24T21:16:41.121-06:00[GIALLO SOURCE CODE] Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, Crimes of the Black Cat, & New York Ripper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I first posted about this connection four or five years ago, when I still had my old <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mubi account (before th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">at site</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">traded <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">its</span> community of users for the chance to monetize every last square inch of itself). When I migrated over to Letterboxd, I also mentioned it in <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a caps<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ule review I published there. But list<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ening this week to the commentary on Mondo <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Macabro</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s stellar <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blu-ray of Fulci</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s <b>LIZAR</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>D IN A WOMAN</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>S SKIN</b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">brought it back to mind. So I decided to take a few caps and briefly revisit what</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> there.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In short, we have actual scenes from Fulci</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s 197<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1</span> film appearing</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>as scenes from an actual film</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>in 197<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>CRIMES OF</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b> THE BLACK CAT (aka, SETTE SCIALLI DI SETA GIALLA; aka, SEVEN S</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>HAWLS OF YELLOW SILK</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>)</b>. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The film, directed by Sergio Pastore, stars </span></span></span>Anthony Steffen <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the genre</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s familiar </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">amateur de<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tective role. He <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">plays</span> a blind composer whose <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">work includes <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">scoring films</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In one scene, we <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">watch him and another technic<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ian watch a brief snippet from the murder of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Julia Durer in <b>LIZARD</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">specifically, th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ose <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">moments</span> that fe<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ature the prosthetic <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">breast<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that was</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">created to allow for the s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hooting of some</span> blood-d<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">renched Fulci gore. (Apologies for the quality of the caps from <b>CRIMES</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>he only source <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> have is the old OOP Da<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gored DVD, which is complete <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gar<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bage<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And here are a couple shots from MM<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s new Blu-ray, to show just how far we<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve come in the quality of our Giallo home-video options:</span></span><br />
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style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s film appears <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to be included here for </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the sole reason of foreshadowing the cl<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">imactic death of a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">key character, Steffen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s on-again, off-again love interest. She</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s the last of the cast who gets murdered, and her killing features <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a number of close-ups of a much<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> less-con<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">vincin<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gly mocked<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-up prosthetic breast<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span>lso, it s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hould be noted, that the murderers in both fi<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lms are <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">women hiding a secret that they believe<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> will alienate them from their acquaintances if revealed, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so</span> they</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re killing to keep <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that from happening</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ... and that both films feature a bisexual woman attempting to blackmail the murderer (and getting killed instead)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are a few frames<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of that set-piece murder (there are much blo<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">odier shots of the prosthetic breast, but I chose not to include them here)</span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">What is of further interest, in the context of Fulci</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s later Giallo work, is how the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">brutality and gore of this scene actually seems to prefigure <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Daniela Doria</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">murder in 198<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>NEW </b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>YORK RIPPER</b>, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that infamous scene where the killer uses a ra<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">zor to mutilate her breasts. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here, the murder <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s a bracingly violent, bracingly graphic scene, esp. for an animal-titled Giallo from 1972. Though the attack itself lasts for only about a minute, the rapid and aggressive cutting (n<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ot to mention closeups) </span>create a barrage of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">image<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s overflowing with the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span>massive bodily harm being done—and to the character who has basically been the female lead for the majority of the film<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ... it certai<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nly feels like it shares the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">misanthropy <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that gets</span> expressed in <b>RIPPER</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> murder set<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-pieces<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Perhaps if <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pastore</span>’s film were more widely seen—or if the version available <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was</span>n’t in such awful shape—these connections would be <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">talked about more</span> … <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">likewise with the</span> way that the woman-plunging-through-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">window</span> climax of <b>CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT</b> very clearly was an influence on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Helga Ulmann</span>’s famous death in Argento’s <b>DEEP RED</b> three <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">years later</span> (for cap comparisons of the two scenes, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/giallo-source-code-deep-red-crimes-of.html">go here</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">January, 2016</span></span></div>
<br />krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-69199367677616091282016-01-06T02:39:00.003-06:002016-01-09T02:26:21.963-06:00[GIALLO SOURCE CODE] Twin Peaks, Enigma Rosso, and Private Crimes<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[NOTE: Some NSFW screencaps below. And, as with every post on this site, <b>SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The “wrapped in plastic” discovery of doomed Laura Palmer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>the enigma-eyed force that drives David Lynch’s <b>TWIN PEAKS</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>has become a part of the tapestry of the TV mystery</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">. Esp. in relation to </span></span>the tradition of “weird mysteries,” which find their origins in the pulp work of writers from the early 20th century. The same early-20th-century pulp writers who were being translated by Mondadori for Italian audiences, creating a phenomenon of popular reading that would eventually help usher in the cinematic success of the Giallo. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Charting both this varied history, and these mutating strains, of the Giallo</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>its enduring iconography, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://letterboxd.com/countfosco/">to borrow Lee Howard’s phrase</a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>has been the job of this <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Giallo%20Source%20Code"><b>SOURCE CODE</b> series</a>. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Not only have I charted the passage of its imagery from the Krimi to the Giallo (<a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/giallo-source-code-from-vohrers-dead.html">here</a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/giallo-source-code-monster-of-london.html">here</a>, for example), I’ve also charted the various visual “quotations” that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’ve</span></span> occurred within the confines of the Italian genre itself—e.g., the way that Carlo Vanzina’s 1985 Giallo <b>NOTHING UNDERNEATH</b> takes Helga Ulmann’s death-by-window from </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Argento’s</span></span> <b>DEEP RED</b> and reworks it for its own ends … *and* the way that that same shot actually predates Argento’s film, first appearing in the climax of Sergio Pastore’s 1972 Giallo <b>THE CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT</b> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/giallo-source-code-deep-red-crimes-of.html">(screencap comparisons here)</a>.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For this installment, I’ve gone outside the Giallo genre, to those iconic visuals wrapped up with the discovery of Laura’s body. In order to flag up a key mystery-thriller image that was both prefigured by the Giallo, and was later reabsorbed back into it (as the influence of US television helped rewrite the work being done on Italian small screens in the 1990s).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So: 1978’s <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b>. That last entry in the “Schoolgirls in Peril” trilogy, a trilogy that engages with (some would say: wallows in) <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-source-code-solange-enigma-rosso.html">any number of the taboo and ugly scenarios</a> surrounding the “secret life of schoolgirls”. Similar to the investigation into Laura</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s hidden life in <b>PEAKS</b>, the trilogy spools out shocking and stomach-churning details about the secrets these well-to-do students are living. <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b> posits an environment where Catholic schoolgirls—when not engaged in their studies—are engaged in dark and violent orgies with faceless, well-connected men in their community. The quite graphic flashbacks in <b>ROSSO</b> esp., perhaps more than any other entry in the trilogy, foreground just how disturbing these encounters are—indeed, forces the idea that these students aren’t just sexually active, but sexually active in the most dangerous and self-destructive of ways.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And, interestingly enough, <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b> opens with one of those schoolgirls—whose involvement in state-sponsored orgies is hitherto unknown by her community—being found dead, wrapped in plastic, near water.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The opening credits play over a crawl of the camera that moves from rushing water to the body of the dead girl (a crawl that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s very similar to the one done across Palmer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s body in <b>PEAKS</b>). This crawl also includes detail shots of two vehicles—presumably driven by the killers—and the sudden plunging of the plastic-wrapped body, from off a cliff where the vehicles are parked, into the rushing water below.</span></span><br />
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also a curious shot, after the girl’s wrapped body is dumped
in the water: The camera, now underwater, presumably somehow
representing the dead girl’s p.o.v., looks back up at the cliff from
where she’s just been thrown and shows us a brief glimpse of her
murderers as they drive away (one in a car, the other on motorcycle).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Post-<b>TWIN PEAKS</b>, it’s impossible to watch these scenes and not think of the discovery of Palmer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s body. I’m not trying to make a case that Lynch or Frost watched <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b> while writing their pilot, but the narrative and visual synchronicities speak to the kind of intertextual pleasures that’re to be had, while watching yourself deep and wide into the Giallo genre—there is so much depth, so much richness of overlap, that the web of associations feels like it never ends. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That overlap also sometimes expresses itself in the form of attempted cash-ins. Many Italian genres are shot through with very obvious examples of producers seeing and trying to mimic the global success of other films: the way, for instance, that the success of <b>THE FRENCH CONNECTION</b> and <b>DIRTY HARRY</b> shaped, re-shaped, deformed the development of the Eurocrime (<i>Poliziottesco</i>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In this case, we have Giallo great Sergio Martino directing a four-part Italian TV miniseries in 1993 called <b>PRIVATE CRIMES (aka, DELITTI PRIVATI)</b>. The story centers around the disappearance and death of a promising student in a local community. The young woman is, on her surface, a kind of ideal member of that community</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>incredibly talented, well-liked, hard-working. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So, when her body is found, abandoned, near a river, the community reels not only from her death, but from the ensuing series of revelations about her “secret” life: She had potentially seamy connections to a local nightclub, to drugs, and, worse, was sleeping with a married (and much older) industrialist whose corrupt money had helped sustain the town (a fact that the locals mostly resent). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">As I’ve written <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/giallo-identikit-what-makes-giallo.html">elsewhere</a>, the miniseries plays out like a much less-weird, less-compelling version of the <b>TWIN PEAKS</b> mystery, with a series of recognized and much-beloved genre faces—Edwige Fenech (who co-produced), Ray Lovelock, Gabriele Ferzetti, Alida Valli, Paolo Malco—populating the landscape of this secret-ravaged town.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Fenech plays the murdered girl’s mother and is the one who discovers the body. And though the staging here lacks most of the visual cues from <b>PEAKS</b>, its general melancholy and mood—coupled with the plot points and musical cues borrowed from Lynch</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s series—certainly reinforce the link. And the notion that the iconography of the Giallo never goes away exactly, it just gets reborn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">January, 2016</span></div>
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krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-440101082125928222016-01-01T22:29:00.006-06:002016-04-12T18:56:08.032-05:00GIALLO IDENTIKIT [What Makes a Giallo?]<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I know a lot of people (myself included) debate minutiae when it comes to whether or not a given Italian genre movie is a Giallo. Esp. when it comes to the more obscure, lesser-seen examples out there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Some people limit the genre very strictly, arguing that there are no more than 60 or 70 Giallo films in existence. Or that only films in the “Golden Age” of Gialli (often considered 1970-1975, begun and ended by the Argento bookends of <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b> and <b>DEEP RED</b>) count as <i>bona fide</i> entries in the genre. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Some people hold that a film *must* be made in Italy (or by Italian hands) to be counted as part of the genre (this argument completely ignores, of course, the fact that most of Argento’s early Gialli were nothing but “Euro-pudding” co-productions, with as much production money and writing and acting talent coming from outside of Italy as in). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That is, some people take a very conservative, even anemic, approach to </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“what makes a Giallo</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I’m not one of those people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I’ve been watching films in the genre—also reading, researching, tracking down, being *absolutely* compelled by these films—for nearly a decade now. I’m aware of the genre’s literary origins—the <i>Il Giallo Mondadori</i>, the Mondadori </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“y</span></span></span></span>ellow</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> paperbacks that translated into Italian the mysteries of Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Cornell Woolrich, Fredric Brown, John D. MacDonald, etc. And the way that these books served as the jumping-off point for (also, often, the winking, meta-textual nod to) the cinematic genre that would come.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(As early as Mario Bava’s <b>THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH [1963]</b>, we have the protagonist reading passages from a Giallo paperback, which goes on to color her perception of the real-life mystery that’s building all around her.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />I’m also aware of the Giallo’s extensive connection to previous cinematic traditions—German Expressionism, Film Noir, the German Krimi. And I’ve now seen the vast majority of English-friendly home-video releases in the genre … 327 films and counting ...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And the sum total of my appreciation is that, like probably all Italian genres of a certain era, the Giallo was, above all, <b>*porous*</b> when it came to its borders. That it was, above all, <b>*plastic*</b> in the ways it could be stretched, twisted</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>retrofitted and reborn</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>to absorb and rework other, competing genres of the day. It’s common knowledge, for instance, that the definition of a Giallo inside Italy can include very nearly any thriller ever made.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />As Michael Mackenzie has pointed out on <a href="http://www.moviematterspodcast.com/">the Movie Matters Podcast,</a> the notion that the Giallo includes a very specific, prescribed set of film conventions (represented by the work of Argento, Bava, Fulci, Martino, Lado, Ercoli, Miraglia, etc.) is a very non-Italian one, and has grown from the increasing cult embrace of these films outside of their homeland. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">One only has to look at Claudio Simonetti’s “Top Gialli” list, as submitted <a href="http://www.moviematterspodcast.com/2011/06/movie-matters-8---giallo-special/">for the Movie Matters Giallo Special,</a> to see how true this is. Simonetti is one of *the* architects of the Italian Giallo, through his revolutionary soundtrack work (both with and without the band Goblin) on </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">film’s like <b>DEEP RED (1975)</b>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html"><b>OPERA (1987)</b></a>, and <b>TENEBRAE</b> <b>(1982)</b>.</span></span> And one of his top-three, all-time “Gialli” is Ridley Scott’s 2001 film, <b>HANNIBAL</b> ... a film that many Giallo fans wouldn</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t recognize as part of the genre. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Further, as often as not, market forces have had as much to do with the genre’s elasticity as anything. As David Sanjek points out, in his seminal article, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://cinema.usc.edu/archivedassets/098/15813.pdf">“Foreign Detection: The West German Krimi and the Italian Giallo”</a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“… the production practices of the commercial cinema in Italy led producers to seize upon whatever genre attracted the greatest immediate consumer interest … what sets Italy apart is its filmmakers’ readiness not only to mix together seemingly disparate genres, but also their … invention of ever more outrageous plots designed to fulfill consumer demand.” </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So where do you put your stakes down, re: the boundaries of the genre? I don’t go so far as to embrace the Italian notion of nearly *any* thriller being classifiable as a Giallo, but I do argue (and remain ever open) to the notion that the genre did not remain static at any point in its life. It may be true that the genre found its most compelling form in the by-now-iconic “black-gloved killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">,” but even this seemingly inviolable Giallo convention didn</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t stand still.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The first complete iteration of the black-gloved killer</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>widely acknowledged as Bava's <b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964)</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>was, after all, a reaction to (and a porting over of) ideas and images from the German Krimi. (As I</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>ve already demonstrated, key Krimis from the same time period featured identical iconography and visual cues as the ones found in Bava</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s cornerstone work, including <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b></a>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html"><b>ROOM 13</b></a>, and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/002-krimi-pocket-review-phantom-of-soho.html"><b>PHANTOM OF SOHO</b></a>).</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Also in terms of </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">the black-gloved killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s </span></span></span></span>plot. Though what people most often take away from </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE </b>now is the still-shocking brutality of the violence (and the template it helps lay for the body-count movie), they mostly forget that the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s motivation is as old-fashioned (and Krimi) as it gets: It</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s all down to an inheritance scheme.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Fast-forward to Argento</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s appropriation of the same black-gloved imagery in <b>BIRD</b>: Though the killer, on the surface, looks like a redo of <b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE</b>, the rationality of that film</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s money plot is gone</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>replaced with a complicated and threatening reaction to trauma. Psychosexual entanglements and angst. Suddenly the personage of the black-gloved killer (and the genre at large) is about the limits of perception, the traditions of violence against women, the changing role of gender in society, the limits of the male gaze, the violence inherent in art.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And the genre</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s fundamental, periodic overwriting of itself didn't end there:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Any number of “movements” bent, tweaked, wrenched-on what the Giallo was and could be. Argento’s obsession with the nature of seeing—centering the mystery around amateur (often ineffectual) detectives who have seen something they can’t understand, mis-seen something their mind can’t *allow* them to understand, because it will wreck their orderly worldview—did eventually give way.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />When the Eurocrime (<i>Poliziottesco</i>) genre started to threaten the Giallo’s box-office receipts, a spate of Eurocrime/Giallo Hybrids hit market—films like Dallamano’s disturbing <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-source-code-solange-enigma-rosso.html"><b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?</b></a>, Mario Caiano’s <b>WITHOUT TRACE (aka, CALLING ALL POLICE CARS)</b>, Sergio Martino’s <b>SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR</b>, Paolo Cavara’s <b>PLOT OF FEAR</b>, Duccio Tessari’s <b>PUZZLE</b>. Etc.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Even before that, the ascendancy of the Gothic genre in the 1960s required that one part of the transition to box-office prominence for the Giallo was any number of Giallo/Gothic Hybrids—stuff like Ernesto Gastaldi’s <b>LIBIDO</b>, Elio Scardamaglia’s <b>MURDER CLINIC</b>, Mario Bava’s <b>HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON</b>, Martino’s <b>YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY</b>, Antonio Margheriti’s <b>SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT’S EYE</b>, Giuseppe Bennati’s <b>THE KILLER RESERVED NINE SEATS</b>. Etc.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And the longer into the 1990s that the Giallo lingered, the more it was made to conform to what was popular in both US cinema and TV. Sergio Martino’s 1993 Giallo TV miniseries <b>PRIVATE CRIMES</b> plays, esp. in its early episodes, as nothing but a less-stylish, less-weird version of the mystery of Laura Palmer’s death in David Lynch’s <b>TWIN PEAKS</b>. And any number of Giallo films produced in the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>90s—Martino’s <b>CRAVING DESIRE</b>, Antonio Bonifacio</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> <b>BLIND DATE (aka, APPUNTAMENTO IN NERO)</b>, Ruggero Deodato’s <b>THE WASHING MACHINE</b>—unabashedly shift the Giallo needle to full-on Cinemax-style softcore.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or you can look at the deforming pressure of the genre’s influence as it expanded, in its earlier phases, outside of Italy: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In Spain (<b>BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL, THE CORRUPTION OF CHRIS MILLER</b>)<b>. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In Germany (not only the co-production of Argento’s early films, but also the reciprocal influence of the Giallo on Krimis like Alfred Vohrer's near-masterpiece <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html"><b>SCHOOL OF FEAR</b></a>; also other truly revelatory films like 1975</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/giallo-identikit-009-das-netz-aka-net.html"><b>DAS NETZ</b></a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">British Gialli like <b>CRESCENDO</b> and <b>ASSAULT</b>. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">American Gialli by the likes of Brian De Palma (<b>BLOW OUT</b>, <b>DRESSED TO KILL</b>). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or, perhaps most famously, how the Giallo strain mutated once out in the wild, and became what we now call the Slasher (whole sections of the early <b>FRIDAY THE 13TH</b> films, their murder set-pieces, wouldn’t exist if they hadn’t first existed in Mario Bava’s seminal body-count Giallo, <b>A BAY OF BLOOD</b>).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Or, perhaps less famously, the way the Giallo tradition influenced filmmakers as far afield as the mammoth cinematic institution that is anime in Japan—Satoshi Kon</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> sublimely weird, sublimely executed <b>PERFECT BLUE</b> being the best example. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So that’s why you’ll find so many films that a Giallo purist might balk at in my growing <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/introduction-annotated-list-inspired-by.html"><b>MASTER LIST</b></a> catalog. That’s why you’ll see me identify (as I have in three separate Letterboxd lists) ~600 films that can conceivably belong as part of the genre. And that’s why you’ll find me, on this site and elsewhere, trying to do whatever I can to raise awareness of the Giallo as an integral and ever-present entity in the history of film. From German Expressionism. To Film Noir. To the German Krimi. To the Giallo, in all its many-splendored forms:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It is a genre, a cinematic tradition, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">that’s </span></span>as important, as far-reaching, as intricately networked as any other I’d care to explore. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Leonard Jacobs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">January, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">ps. In addition to the criteria above, I've also worked out six key characteristics that exist, in greater or lesser strengths, in all films I identify as Gialli. These characteristics are: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>TRAUMA (childhood and/or sexual and/or historical)</b>, <b> </b></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>DREAM LOGIC (esp. at the expense of narrative sense)</b>, <b> </b></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>EXCESSIVE STYLE AND SET PIECES</b>, <b> </b></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>TRANSGRESSIVE OR TABOO SEXUALITY</b>, <b> </b></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/giallo-identikit-014-discopath-aka.html">my last review,</a> I touched on the “Schoolgirls in Peril” sub-genre that’s become so well known to fans of the Giallo. Though some identify only the three key titles as comprising the sub-genre—the loosely linked trilogy of <b>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? (1972)</b>, <b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? (1974)</b>, and <b>ENIGMA ROSSO (aka, RINGS OF FEAR [1978])</b>—there are a number of other films that qualify, including the Poliziotteschi/Giallo hybrid <a href="http://letterboxd.com/ipcress/film/calling-all-police-cars/"><b>WITHOUT TRACE (aka, CALLING ALL POLICE CARS [1975])</b></a>, which picks up the schoolgirl prostitution ring of <b>DAUGHTERS</b> and does an equally disturbing variation on the theme.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The other angle that’s interesting, in the context of this site, is the Krimi connection—i.e., <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/krimi-vs-giallo-notes-on-setting-some.html">how the ingrained Krimi-ism of the ingénue-in-distress plot</a> is made more extreme in the guise of sexualized schoolgirls and the consequences they face because of their promiscuity. And how the Giallo <b>SOLANGE</b> was recut, retitled, and resold as a Krimi in Germany.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />On the audio commentary for <a href="http://www.mondo-digital.com/solange.html">Arrow Video’s recent Blu-ray release of <b>SOLANGE</b>,</a> Kim Newman touches on these points:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“I think the real reason this is set in London is not to do with the Italian side of it, but to do with the German side of it. In Germany this isn’t a Giallo called <b>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?</b>, it’s a Krimi, called <b>THE SECRET OF THE GREEN STICK PIN</b> … one of the last entries in a very long series of 1960s grotesque crime movies based on the works of the British author, Edgar Wallace. This is notionally based on a book of his called <b>THE CLUE OF THE NEW PIN</b> … those movies [the Krimis] were all set in London and mostly starred the star of this movie, Joachim Fuchsberger, playing the man from Scotland Yard …” </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Though Neman sees a distinction between the Krimi and Giallo in the *degree* to which they</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’ll push their sexuality and violence, </span></span>he sees <b>SOLANGE</b> as a kind of quintessential example of that dual genre citizenship held by so many Krimi/Giallo Hybrids from this era:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“… although sort of seamier and rougher than those movies [Krimis], [<b>SOLANGE</b> is] very much in their tradition. There are imperiled schoolgirls, there’s a crime in the past that has to be solved, there’s a series of baffling crimes, and Scotland Yard—in the person of Joachim Fuchsberger—and an innocent personage who is suspected of the crime—in the person of Fabio Testi—have to investigate, independently, to come to a solution. That’s the template for the Krimi.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">His conversation with Alan Jones also covers the tendency, especially in British films of the day, for schoolgirl thrillers “where the likes of Suzy Kendall or Jenny Agutter are wearing short skirts and being stalked”. Newman then goes on to relate a fascinating </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>true</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> story that is the supposed source for all of these films:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“It all dates back to a tabloid story, from the early 1960s, which may or may not be true—it’s probably newspaper nonsense. Which was that, in a particular school, girls who were sexually active would form a kind of secret society that they would signify by wearing … the little badges that came with Robertson’s Jam, which were Golliwogs, stylized representations of black minstrels. This was a huge thing throughout the 60s and 70s and is now kind of culturally suppressed and forgotten.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Even when Robert Hartford-Davis, one of Britain’s few exploitation filmmakers, made a film in the early 60s about this phenomena—it was called <b>THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS</b>—it replaced the Golliwog badges with Teddy Bear badges. In this movie [<b>SOLANGE</b>], it’s the green pins that the girls in the secret society wear … that signify their involvement in sordid, sexual activity.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And, in the “Schoolgirls Trilogy”-proper, we see this theme taken up again. In <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b>—the final entry, meant for Massimo Dallamano but directed by Alberto Negrin after </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Dallamano</span></span> was killed in a car crash—we get not a Golliwog or Teddy Bear or Pin, but a cartoon cat. Fabio Testi—returning to the series as the official detective this time, effectively combining his and Fuchsberger’s role from <b>SOLANGE</b>—first finds the mysterious cat image in the diary of a murdered girl.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And that a posh store that specializes in this brand of jeans is actually a front for the teenage prostitution ring. Combine this plot point</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>along with Testi's reprisal of role(s), and the fact that the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s amateur detective is essentially a child</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>and you get a strange conflation of the first two entries in the trilogy making this third. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">ps. For those interested in tracking down a copy of the film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Rosso-Trauma-fully-Eyecatcher/dp/B00DO78ZN0">the old German Eyecatcher release</a> is in widescreen. It</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s a roached print</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>and only the English track is included</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>but even in this less-than-stellar form, it</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s still a fair sight better than the cropped versions I</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>ve seen sold elsewhere</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">VERSION WATCHED: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Discopath-Discopathe-Disco-path-Blu-Ray/dp/B00X6OLWEK/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1451176142&sr=1-2&keywords=discopath">Australian Blu-ray (uncut)</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My Giallo Rating: ★★</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">★</span></span> (out of 5)<br />Subcategory (if any): <br /> i. Neo-Giallo<br /> ii. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Comedy / Giallo Hybrid</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">iii. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Schoolgirls in Peril Giallo</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> iv. Gialli Featuring Clergy </span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />In My Giallo Top 50 (Y/N):</span> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/ipcress/list/50-315-the-giallo-list-what-ive-seen-and/">No</a> </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The blurb on the back of the Blu-ray sets the movie up this way:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“New York City. 1976. Whenever mild-mannered Duane Lewis hears disco music, murderous and manic impulses are unleashed. After falling into a psychotic trance at a disco dance party, Duane escapes the city and reinvents himself as a teacher at an all-girls private school. Wearing special gear to cut out external sounds, he believes he’s put the past behind him, until he’s bombarded with decibels by his disco-loving students, transforming him into a funk-crazed serial killer.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">As a film, it feels very much of a piece with Astron-6’s <b>THE EDITOR (2015)</b>, except, unlike that one, it feels like it’s not in on its own joke. Any film whose unexplained, mostly unexplored premise consists of a schizophrenic killer who murders whenever he hears disco music is pretty much begging to be taken as a punchline. Despite its lack of self-awareness (or maybe because of it), I’d argue it’s actually a more successful Neo riff on the Giallo than <b>THE EDITOR</b>. Not the most successful Neo-Giallo I’ve seen (not even close), but middle-of-the-pack and better than I expected.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Side note: I appreciate what <b>THE EDITOR</b> is trying to do re: parody and homage—going so far as to lift, nearly verbatim, whole sections of classic Italian exploitation, including from many *non*-Giallo films: You get the vicious rape scene from Pasquale Festa Campanile</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s <b>HITCH-HIKE [1977]</b></span></span>, and the demon-through-the-stretch-TV-screen from Lamberto Bava</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s <b>DEMONS 2 [1986]</b> [which</span></span></span></span> itself most probably borrowed the scene from <b>VIDEODROME</b>]. But it ends up feeling, to me, like an empty joke [even if it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s a joke told with much genre love]</span></span></span></span></span> ... And</span> it begs the question: If you fill your movie with scenes lifted, 1:1, from earlier, better films, what are you hoping to accomplish? As a famous filmmaker once said, re: theft in art, it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s not where you steal your ideas from, it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s where you take them. I.e., all art is theft, that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s a given</span></span></span></span></span></span>—it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s what you *do* with what you steal that matters.)</span><br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[AN ANACHRONISTIC 1976]</b></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The opening prologue in NYC feels especially <b>EDITOR</b>-like, as we get anachronistically costumed actors who feel as out of place as possible, in this invented, not remotely believable “1976”. In <b>THE EDITOR</b>, this clear disconnect between unmistakably contemporary actors made up in </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>70s costumes and fake porn </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>staches is played for laughs—in fact, its hyper-artificiality is the point, like an <b>SNL</b> skit where part of the premise is milking humor from watching current cast members and/or that week</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s host mug at the camera while wearing exaggerated </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>70s fashions. In <b>DISCOPATH</b>, it threatens to derail any dramatic, thriller impact the movie might build to and was honestly so off-putting that I almost gave up on it for the night. Esp. hard to take in this section are the almost cartoonish Brooklyn(?) accents from the leads, and the jokey, cop-show histrionics of the detectives.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE PROLOGUE THAT THREATENS TO DERAIL THE REST OF THE MOVIE: </b>The film’s patently artificial, comedy-skit version of 1976, which introduces our protagonist-killer, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Duane Lewis,</span></span> with his back to the camera as he works the hot grill. He</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’s distracted from his job by three customers who come in with a boombox blaring faux-disco music </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(customers who remind me a bit of the men in that infamous bar scene from Lucio Fulci</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span></i>s <b>NEW YORK RIPPER</b> <b>[1982]</b>). </span></span></span></span>Inexplicably, the movie asks us to believe that this is the first time that </span></span>the adult Duane has heard disco</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—and that disco is the *only* music that triggers his killing urge ... something that makes even less sense, once we get the flashback to the childhood music trauma that has made Duane the killer he is. </span></span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GIALLO CALLBACKS:</b> Having just rewatched Lamberto Bava’s <b>A BLADE IN THE DARK (1983)</b>, itself a film that constantly references the work of both his father Mario and Dario Argento, it’s easy to see <b>DISCOPATH</b> consciously working in the same tradition. When Duane goes into his trance-reveries, we get repeated closeups on speakers and audio equipment</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>not unlike Bava’s deliberately paced closeups of the audio equipment being used to score the film-within-the-film in <b>BLADE</b>.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TOO MUCH FAUX: </b>Whereas the grit and sleaze of NYC streets as shown in, say, Fulci’s <b>NEW YORK RIPPER</b> (the live sex show, the subway chase scene, the ferry ride, etc.) or William Lustig’s <b>MANIAC (1980)</b> root those films in an authentic moment in cinematic time and place, the digital gloss and limited production values of this not-so-well-conjured 1976 just tend to distract.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">After Duane gets expelled from the diner for trancing out to the disco music (and letting the grill flame over), he walks the city streets in an angry daze, in a scene that made me think both of those early sidewalk scenes with Thana in Abel Ferrera’s <b>MS. 45 (1981)</b> and Betty wandering the streets, dazed, traumatized, lost in Argento’s <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html"><b>OPERA (1987)</b></a>. If the prologue could’ve kept up this vibe, briefly introduced, this quintessential throwback grit of a certain-era NYC—with a sweaty, disgruntled Tom Hardy lookalike stalking the streets—then the notion of <span style="font-size: normal;">“</span>Comedy Giallo<span style="font-size: normal;">”</span> wouldn't really be in play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Instead Duane stumbles into a local skate park, where he runs into a girl he used to know in high school, Valerie (one of several characters in this section who suffer from the wonkiest of NYC accents). The Brooklyn(?) accents of the two leads are so atrocious as to seem
deliberately comic—but, unlike <b>THE EDITOR</b>, the delivery and drama
feel like they’re being played straight. This clash of tones—which
basically cancels out what would otherwise
be effective or memorable in the scene (and forces you to question just how seriously you’re supposed to be taking it)—is one of the worst instances of the film
being tone-deaf to its sources … and gives you the sinking feeling that the filmmakers just don’t have a handle on what they’re trying to make. (It’s also the reason, I think, why so many people have logged negative reactions to the movie as a homage to the Giallo that exists in the same world as Argento and De Palma.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Improbably, despite the fact that Duane exudes total, social awkwardness, Valerie insists on taking him home and, later, to the disco. This first murder set-piece in the disco is t<span style="font-size: normal;">he
strongest Giallo thumbprint in the movie, and is perhaps the most overtly stylish of any that the film offers</span><span style="font-size: normal;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The club</span><span style="font-size: normal;">’s dance floor is made up of elevated glass panels that are built on top of the warehouse</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s actual floor. Because of this, </span></span></span>there’s a crawlspace between that glass and the floor, full of pulsating lights and electrical cords. Through
a dreamy, wandering series of shots, Valerie ends up chased into this in-between space by Duane, who has had his mania triggered after he fondles a set of thumping speakers in the club. The stalk-and-slash scenario, which ends with her decapitated head staring lifelessly up at those who are dancing above her (oblivious to the murder that</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s just taken place beneath their feet) is one of the most arresting we get. And it does much to cancel out that jokey, uneven tone that</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s been the norm in the movie so far. </span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note also how the panels of the glass
dance floor, through which we see </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Valerie’s</span></span></span> staring, lifeless head,
echo the look of the disco ball that dominates the opening credits.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Two other details that are important to note about this set-piece (esp. in relation to the dream-logic structure of the best Gialli) are as follows: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">1. The image of Valerie</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s lifeless, decapitated face immediately brings to mind the decapitated head that</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s left spewing on the bed in the trauma flashback that is key to understanding R</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">omano Scavolini’s sleaze-and-grit Giallo-slasher, <b>NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED
BRAIN (1981)</b>. (Also, any number of the decapitation murders in Argento</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s <b>TRAUMA [1993]</b> ... or the obsession with bodily disfigurement in other Neo-Gialli, including </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Alex Infascelli<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> <b>ALMOST BLUE [2001]</b> and Eros Puglielli’s <b>EYES OF CRYSTAL [2004]</b>.) </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">2. It’s clear that the various shots—exterior and interior—of the elevated, glass dance floor don’t match from scene to scene. The exterior shots, where you get the best sense of the floor</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s actual dimensions</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—seen when the broadly played cop characters are investigating</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—make it clear that it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s not the same floor as the one used when the murder is being shot from inside, or beneath, the glass. The most obvious reason for this is a practical one</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—there</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s a minimum amount of space needed to fit the cameras and actors under the floor during the murder, which required this portion of the set to be expanded for those shots. A far more interesting read of the scene is the way it relates to a whole series of Italian genre films that deliberately alter and deform the spatial relationships in their sets. </span></span></span> </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The example that always jumps out at me is the dress portion of the first dream sequence in Michele Soavi’s flawless film, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-cast-2-la-setta-sect-1991.html"><b>THE SECT (1991)</b></a>. Here, the female lead of the film has a nightmarish, myth-choked wet dream where she is either assaulted (or made love to) by a faceless St. Sebastian stand-in. When he approaches her</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—she is on her back, in a grassy field</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>her dress swells and he crawls under, *into*, the dress like it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s suddenly the size of a tent. The same space is radically different in size, depending on whether it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s shot from the interior or exterior.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(This same principle is used in the sequences that involve the kidnap victims being kept in sacks, in Sion Sono’s <b>SUICIDE CLUB</b>. There, when the sack is shot from the outside, it appears to be only large enough to hold the person thrashing about inside. But when it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span></span> shot from the inside, the interior of the sack becomes nightmarishly [also: impossibly] large—large enough for the victim’s kidnapper to walk into the bag and attack her ... even something as straightforward as the size of the old ductworks in <b>OPERA</b>—probably only built that large to allow two actors and a trailing crew and camera to film them in the enclosed space</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—comes to mind</span></span></span>.)</span> </span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">As far as the rest of the prologue, we again get the sense that the filmmakers don</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>t quite have a handle on the material. The prologue itself, not much more than 15 or 20 minutes of the film, includes not one, but two additional flashbacks that feel awkwardly sandwiched in. The disco murder itself is postponed and told in the first flashback, after Duane has already hopped a plane to Montreal in the hopes of escaping arrest for Valerie</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s killing. It</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s a</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> delay that adds nothing to the momentum or tension of the film, esp. because, as soon as that flashback ends, we</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re immediately plunged into *another* one: the musical trauma that Duane suffered as a child.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">While listening
to music with his dad, his father’s complicated hi-fi system
somehow shorts out and electrocutes him before his son’s eyes. The
flashback, which includes a staring, dumbfounded child witnessing the
death of an adult that he doesn’t understand, seems like an obvious (and
not very successful) rework of the stock, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“originary trauma” that so many Gialli trade in. S</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>omething like the flashback to a
childhood Carlo that is at the back of all the murders in Argento’s <b>DEEP
RED (1975)</b>. Here it </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">feels
cheaply realized and far too rushed to amount to anything useful. It
also again foregrounds how silly and undeveloped the movie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s premise is:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> musician father isn’t listening to disco in the flashback, which forces us </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">to ask: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>“If the soundtrack to his father’s death *wasn’t* disco, then why is it only disco that now triggers Duane</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> to murder? And, why hasn’t he been killing repeatedly, since his childhood, every time he heard music?” We</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’re supposed to believe that he</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> spent the rest of his childhood without ever being exposed to any music of any kind?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The answer seems to be that such internal logic isn</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’t important, so long </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>as the film can be titled and sold on the camp back of “disco</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span>. But things feel so haphazard and gimmicky in this regard that we never feel like we get the payoff that</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s promised by such a concept. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So it’s disappointing in the sense that it feels like a gimmick. And it’s disappointing because the promise of the gimmick—what we’re sold by the title and synopsis—never really materializes, not in any satisfying way at least. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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I would also probably admit that, going in with exceedingly low
expectations, I may be giving the movie more credit than it deserves.
The best thing I can say is that it hints at the dream-logic uncanniness
that the best Gialli are awash in. And it gets more watchable after
that wonky prologue is done. (Also the main theme, which goes <b>GREEN
HORNET</b> by way of <b>KILL BILL</b>, is pretty all right with me.) And, at least
part of the time, it doesn’t make ironic, winking apologies for the references it wants to indulge in (a strategy in “horror comedy” that almost always feels like a cop out to me).</span></span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[AN EQUALLY ANACHRONISTIC 1980]</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The movie’s execution gets considerably more consistent when the action moves to Canada (and the dialogue switches to French). Duane from the prologue poses not as a teacher (as the Blu-ray case says), but as a “deaf and dumb” handyman at an all-girls Catholic boarding school. His “special gear to cut out external sounds” is nothing more than a faux-hearing aid, one that muffles the outside world and shields him from the music that will trigger his urge to kill again.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The girls school is rife with a more-than-implied leery atmosphere—with moments that emphasize (like any </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>70s exploitation would have) lesbian love affairs, sexualized jokes used to bully less-popular girls, and a flat-out, flippant disdain for the tenets of Catholicism</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—and </span></span></span>fixes the film firmly in the “Schoolgirls in Peril” subgenre of Gialli.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Institutional bullying among the cliquey students in the girls school ...</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The callbacks are so many that they seem like a deliberate riff on those films (the most famous Giallo examples being <b>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?</b>, <b>WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?</b>, and <b>RINGS OF FEAR [aka, ENIGMA ROSSO]</b>). The derision aimed at the Catholic ideology of the school, e.g., is played both for laughs</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—in that the chief priest character is, at the start, shown to be a smug, self-serving buffoon</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—and for a genuine angst, in that the headmistress of the school seems genuinely disturbed by her students</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span> lack of faith.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Father Antoine, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">who is introduced as a mostly absent overseer of the school, reads as a kind of clucking, finger-wagging,
white-bread-and-delusional authority figure. He tours the school with
the current headmistress—who herself is having a clandestine affair with
one of the school’s female teachers—and makes empty remarks about how
wonderfully successful the school is in carrying out God’s mission. She
counters by telling him that the “girls today” are disinterested in anything even remotely
religious, and that the school is totally ineffective in handling their
disbelief. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Later, at the funeral for two of the murdered students, he
becomes unhinged during his eulogy, not just fire-and-brimstone conservative,
but possibly blasphemous in his remarks about the existence of evil. He has suddenly cracked in the face
of the tragedy that’s materialized in his hallowed / not-so-hallowed school, and recalls for a moment the kind of murderous heresy practiced by so many priest killers in classic Gialli (<b>DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING [1972]</b>, <b>WHO SAW HER DIE? [1972]</b>, etc.). </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">... and widespread hypocrisy when it comes to the institution</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s beliefs ...</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Also, after Duane is driven to murder two of the students </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(and he finally begins his last, desperate devolution into total psycho), the staging of the bedroom where the murder takes place reminds me quite a bit of the girls</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> bedroom in the aforementioned <b>ENIGMA ROSSO</b>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Another element that makes me lean more toward classifying this as a Neo-Giallo (than, for instance, a slasher) is in the startling resemblance that François Aubin, as the lead French-Canadian detective, shares with a Eurocrime-era Tomás Milián—that period of time in </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Milián</span></span></span>’s career when he wouldn’t allow himself to be onscreen without some sort of hair piece or wig (wigs that became increasingly ridiculous as the years went on). When his performances came prepackaged with arch, weird tics</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> and embellishments—</span></span></span>sometimes played tragic, sometimes played comic. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I have no idea if the shaggy gray hair and beard, the aggressively smoked chain of cigarettes, the boorish, lazy demeanor is true to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Aubin</span></span></span> as an actor (haven’t seen him in anything else), but it feels very much like he’s doing his version of vintage </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Milián</span></span></span>. His character’s total disregard for solving the case betrays a sense that he’s more interested in mugging and chomping on cigarettes than he is in being a proper cop—more interested in recreating one of those stock Italian genre personas than being a functioning part of the plot.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The ending, which culminates in death-by-parking-garage, feels both like the most silly part of the movie—with Duane dressing as a bug-eyed nun at the start, in order to storm the funeral procession of his victims—and the most mysterious. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The mysterious part comes after he plunges to his death from the top floor of the garage. His body is pulverized by the impact with the pavement (he looks riddled with bullets, though none have managed to hit him), and we get the sense the credits are coming. When they do, we get a strange, <i>non sequitur</i> shot that finds Duane, inexplicably alive again, starting up a window-washer’s rig. The rig descends the side of an unidentified building as the credits climb the screen. Duane stares menacingly at the camera. Until this image of him disappears. I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean, but it’s a moment of almost-delirious style that I wish the movie could’ve been more awash in …</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">ps. I'm hoping to beef up my Neo-Giallo reviews in the short term. Other Neo-Gialli I've covered in depth on this site include <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/giallo-identikit-002-sonno-profondo-aka.html"><b>SONNO PROFONDO (2013)</b></a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-003-yellow-2012.html"><b>YELLOW (2012)</b></a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>VERSION WATCHED:</b></span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Discopath-Discopathe-Disco-path-Blu-Ray/dp/B00X6OLWEK/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1451189844&sr=1-2&keywords=discopath">Australian Blu-ray</a> | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>LANGUAGE:</b></span> English / French (English subtitles included) | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>DIRECTOR:</b></span> Renaud Gauthier | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>WRITER(S):</b></span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Renaud Gauthier</span></span></span> | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>MUSIC:</b></span> Bruce Cameron | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>CINEMATOGRAPHER:</b></span> John Londono | <span style="color: yellow;"><b>CAST:</b></span> Jérémie Earp-Lavergne (Duane Lewis); Sandrine Bisson (Francine Léveillée); Ivan Freud (Paul Stevens); Ingrid Falaise (Sister Mirielle Gervais); Katherine Cleland (Valerie Lombardo); Mathieu Lepage (Chartrand); François Aubin (Inspector Sirois); Pierre Lenoir (Father Antoine); Catherine Antaki (Caroline Valois); Sibylle Gauthier (Mélanie Champagne); Christian Paul (Detective Willis); Chelsea Eaton-Lussier (Monica); Nancy Blais (Michelle Prud'homme); Benoit St-Hilaire (Pierre St-Aubin); Nicolas Laliberté (Young Duane Lewis); Jane-Anne Cormier (Counter Stewardess); Marie-Claire Lalonde (Michelle's Mother); Renaud Gauthier (Jack Lewis); Davyd Tousignant (Sylvain Duplessis); Salvador Valdez (Martin Lopez); Monika Bagárová (Waitress); Billy Thanos (Chef); Allessandra Rigano (Discomania Dancer); Jason Richardson (Policeman NYC); Luca Asselin (Investigator MTL); Benjamin Lussier (Policeman MTL); Mathieu Grimard (Policeman MTL); Vincent Wilson (Policeman MTL); Anthony Travaglini (Policeman MTL); Rémy Couture (Policeman MTL); Amelie Paul (Plane Stewardess); Yola Van Leeuwenkamp (Plane Stewardess); Louis-Philippe Sporns (Seventh Heaven Doorman); René Durocel (Taxi Driver); Simon Lacroix (Priest); Francesca Gosselin (Mélanie's Mother); Guy Blanchard (Mélanie's Father); Thibault Bensa (Morgue Attendant)</span></span></span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-14332737002049830032015-07-30T20:26:00.000-05:002015-07-30T20:26:42.070-05:00[REVIEW-CAST #11] MASSACRE GUN (1967)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since a few days ago <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/krimi-vs-giallo-what-im-talking-about.html">I posted about how related the particular mood of this film was to the worlds of the Giallo and Krimi,</a> I thought I</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>d also post a brief write-up. This is the eleventh in a series of reviews that will focus on
genres related to the Krimi and Giallo; for more info, read <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-policy-change-for-2015.html">this post</a>. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span>As with all posts on this site,<b> SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Before my cinematic world got swallowed by all things Italian, German, and Eurocult, my first serious gateway into movies—into movies being a real *thing* in my life—was the work of a half dozen or so Japanese directors:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Seijun Suzuki (esp. <b>YOUTH OF THE BEAST</b> and <b>BRANDED TO KILL</b>); Shôhei Imamura (<b>VENGEANCE IS MINE</b> and <b>THE PORNOGRAPHERS</b>); Yasuzo Masumura (<b>MANJI</b>, and the Yukio Mishima-strutting <b>AFRAID TO DIE</b>); Koreyoshi Kurahara (<b>THIRST FOR LOVE</b> and <b>THE WARPED ONES</b>); Hiroshi Teshigahara (<b>FACE OF ANOTHER</b> and <b>PITFALL</b>); and, though it’s true his filmography is congenitally uneven, Takashi Miike (putting Lynch’s <b>LOST HIGHWAY</b> into a Japanese blender and getting <b>GOZU</b>; also the performance he gets from the lead in his remake of <b>GRAVEYARD OF HONOR</b>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Japanese movie that reminded me how I felt watching the work of those formally innovative, ero-guro-tinged (sometimes not just tinged, but *drenched*) directors. Watching Yasuharu Hasebe’s <b>MASSACRE GUN</b> gave me just that reminder. Partially, I’m sure, because he worked under Seijun Suzuki for part of his career, but more because his film manages to do what so many noir-influenced Japanese films of the 60s did: to marry flawlessly composed black-and-white, with noir nihilism, with a particular sense of that country’s tradition (notions of “honor” and “brotherhood” that get pushed to the point of self-destructiveness) with a nightmarish, ero-guro violence that one-ups and perfects everything else.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Though maybe not as off-the-charts bizarre (nor transgressive) as something like <b>BRANDED TO KILL</b>, <b>MG</b> still satisfies on the same levels.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The movie opens with a mostly wordless five-minute prologue where we watch Jô Shishido (literally the chipmunk-cheeked face of this genre for so many years) get pressed into self-destructive service: his yakuza boss orders him to murder the woman he loves (who certainly loves him). It’s wrenching in the sense that S.’s face shows us the inner turmoil he’s struggling to keep swallowed. Wrenching because when he goes to pick her up, she is blissfully happy in his arms, in the mistaken belief that they will be escaping by plane from this price on her head. Wrenching because the murder when it happens twists everything around in the scene so quickly—her joyous face contorted by the terror of the gun; the sudden burst of action that changes the contemplative, jazzy pace so far (S. leaps from a car containing her body as he drives it into a lake).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This scene cuts to the club Shishido runs, introducing us to Ken Sanders, whose deep-throated singing of a wordless dirge not only comments on Shishido’s headspace in the previous scene, but cues us for the tone of the rest of the movie. What follows is a series of gangland power plays that increase in intensity and offensiveness. And that show how hopeless any opposition to the yakuza's grip on society is (note how the focus on Sanders hands delicately playing the piano is repeated with the focus on the <b>FISTFUL OF DOLLARS</b>-like mutilating of a boxer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s hands by a rival gang).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The film becomes a parade of striking images:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Shishido’s friend-in-the-uprising being delivered to his club in a casket (complete with hidden ticking time bomb tethered to his corpse);</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">the erotic (and surprisingly modern-feeling) floor show at S.’s club, where a barely dressed man and woman do interpretive dance that could just as easily belong in an art film on another continent;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">the way S.’s surgically enhanced cheeks suck on a cigarette when he gives orders like a boss;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">a tense conversation between man and wife, shot upside down and in the reflection of a bar counter;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">a sudden skewer through the finger;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">an extreme long shot showing two people silhouetted by enormous sky, walking as they talk through their unfixable relationship;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">a rusted-out cargo ship used as the site of a gangland trap whose litany of guns give it strobe-lighting;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">even the boat scene that references the “youth in revolt” movies.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">All of this would be enough to make the movie an indelible example of 60s Japanese surreal-o-noir. But then you get the reality-stretching end, the “massacre” in <b>MASSACRE GUN</b>. It’s a shootout on an abandoned stretch of highway system that feels ported in from some future, post-apocalyptic movie. Wrecked cars look like ships crash-landed into the pavement. Shishido scales (and then escapes, before it implodes) some kind of alien scaffolding that looks built out of a nightmare (which it is for his enemies, as it’s the vantage point he first uses to kill them long-distance with his sniper rifle). It feels like the least rational section of the movie, as the increasingly vented violence of the film finally erupts the rest of the way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Shishido proceeds in “battle-damaged” mode, stalking his final opponent (his one true “brother,” who’s been forced by his gang affiliations to break ties and hunt S. down), circling around each other’s gun, drawing beads on each other on this impossibly abandoned highway—it’s really something. And recalls, more than once, that long sequence in <b>BRANDED TO KILL</b> when Shishido drags himself beneath a car (tied to a rope no less) in order to use the car as cover from the snipers trying to kill him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It adds up to a hyper-violent, weird climax to what’s been, up till then, a noir mood piece. Def. looking forward to seeing more of Yasuharu Hasebe's work.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OUR BELOVED ADY BERBER:</b> Though much of <b>NYLON NOOSE</b> suffers from it feeling a bit too much like <span style="font-size: normal;">“</span>Krimi-lite,<span style="font-size: normal;">”</span> the menacing bulk of Ady Berber can</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t help but make an impression on the viewer.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[This
is the thirty-fourth post in a continuing series discussing and
analyzing all the Krimis and Gialli I've seen. As with every post on
this site, <b>SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>. Also: The run time of the version I watched was ~71 minutes. IMDb lists the run time as 74 minutes. This discrepancy</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>plus the fact that the opening credits were in English</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>makes me assume that I was watching a shorter, export version of the film. So it's possible that some of my analysis might change, if a longer version does indeed exist.]</span></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My Krimi Rating:</span> ★★★☆☆<br /><span style="font-size: normal;">Subcategory (if any): <br /> i. Inheritance Scheme Krimi</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> ii. Ingénue-in-Distress Krimi</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> iii. Proto-Giallo Krimi</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> iv. Old Dark House Krimi</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Who Portrays the Detective (amateur or official): <br /> Dietmar Schönherr (official)<br />Who's the Ingénue: <br /> Helga Sommerfeld</span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />In My Krimi Top 20 (Y/N): No </span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[SETTING SOME TERMS]</b></span></span><br /><b>NYLON NOOSE</b>—a non-Rialto Krimi from 1963—plays as, perhaps more than anything else, a less-stylized (and slightly degraded) version of Alfred Vohrer’s Rialto production of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/007-krimi-pocket-review-indian-scarf.html"><b>THE INDIAN SCARF</b> <b>(also 1963)</b></a>. It is, like too many of the non-Rialto examples, a bit light on the peculiar, mesmerizing, enlivening mystery-horror mood that most marks Krimis as operating in their own imaginative space—what Sanjek calls, as <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html">I</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html">’ve discussed</a> at <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/krimi-vs-giallo-what-im-talking-about.html">length here</a></span></span>, their <i>Stimmung</i>—and is perhaps most remarkable for the way it plays off what had become by then the basic clichés in the genre.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> <br />These variations show up in a couple of ways. One, we get familiar cast members being used in potentially unfamiliar ways (this device—audience familiarity with an actor being used to overturn their expectations for that actor—would be used to even greater effect in later Krimis, most notably in the way that Eddi Arent’s comedy persona was used as “cover” for him being the villain). Second, the movie recognizes and reuses chunks of plot and staging that had already become “stock-in-trade” for the Krimi. An nth-example of the way that the Krimi grew to remix and -match every possible variation of its original, core elements. <br /><br /><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[RE-PLOTTING WHAT</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>S FAMILIAR]</b></span></span><br />The opening credits feature the “Bustling London City Nightlife” stock footage montage found in so many German Krimis. Their</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> purpose seems to have been a surface attempt to </span></span>convince audiences that the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s action was set in England, not Germany. Neon advertising (Coca-Cola is well-represented) and flashing bulbs spelling out the names of hotels and bars give a sense of a bustling, *non-German* city setting. The same technique is used for any number of other Krimis, everything from <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY (1964)</b></a> to <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/009-krimi-pocket-review-man-with-glass.html"><b>THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE (1969, where it is, hands down, used to its best effect)</b></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This flashy montage gives way to the interior of a slightly saucy nightclub act, the camera cutting first to a closeup on the sinewy, snake-like hand of a woman. And then tracking down to reveal the rest of her, scantily clad and in the middle of a striptease act. As we get glimpses of her routine</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>rolling and cavorting on the floor, slowly stripping off her veils</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—those shots are intercut with a series of shots laying out the physical geometry of the club. And the camera introducing us to several shifty, mysterious characters: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />There is the wary-looking man sliding a sealed envelope onto the bar. There is the man in a goatee using one of the club’s sets of decorative blinds to keep himself hidden from view while he spies on that man. Etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Setting the action in a nightclub—and including a stripteaser’s act (and the stripteaser herself) as a key plot point—places the film in a long line of such Krimi scenarios. Think the gruesome razor murder after the floor show in the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Highlow Club</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html"><b>ROOM 13</b></a>. Or the use of the singer / dancer / temptress who works at the “Lolita Club” and betrays a “wastrel” prodigal son in the first Rialto, <b>THE FACE OF THE FROG (1959)</b>. Or the over-the-top scorpion-ring murder of the “Zombie Club’s” singer in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/020-krimi-pocket-review-zombie-walks.html"><b>THE ZOMBIE WALKS (1968)</b></a>. Or, even, all the way back to maybe the first Krimi of them all, <b>THE GIRL WITH THE CAT’S EYES (1958)</b>, where the confused daughter of drunkard Gert Frobe is offered a job in a nightclub floor show, just so the club’s owner can find a way to molest her … you get the idea …</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Here, the dancer’s act culminates with her on the stage, on her back, opening the clasp in the middle of her bra. As it releases, a faceless man cuts the spotlight and the room goes dark. Depriving the audience of a clear view of the woman topless. And providing an opportunity for someone to murder the mysterious man at the bar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(If this were a Vohrer or Reinl film, all of the above would be done with splashy style. One can imagine Vohrer’s habit of using showy match cuts put to good use here, matching the visual signatures of the stripping woman and soon-to-be-murdered man in ironic or winking ways. As it stands, Laya Raki, who plays the dancer, serves little more than the role of onscreen eye candy.)</span></span></span><br />
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OLD SWITCHEROO?</b> One clear continuity gaff comes when the lights come
back up on the stripteaser’s act: It seems clear (even with the mediocre
visual quality of the DVD presentation) that we’re watching a different actress slink away in her bra and
panties (a noticeably different set of bra and panties, and a different haircut altogether).</i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Schönherr is a Krimi</span></span> genre familiar (if not exactly a genre star). Fans will recognize him from <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b></a>, where he played the suspicious Scotland Yard doctor who may or may not be taking part in the resurrection of Jack the Ripper-style murders. He also plays one of a gaggle of smugglers in the Men’s Adventure Krimi <b>MOZAMBIQUE (1966)</b>, acting alongside world-weary, sad-eyed Hildegard Knef (who was herself such an effective presence in the atypical Rialto Krimi, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/017-krimi-pocket-review-mark-of.html"><b>MARK OF THE TORTOISE [1964]</b></a>). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">His assistant, who is clearly meant to be cast in the Eddi Arent comedy sidekick role, is played by Edi Huber. He wears the same style bowler hat that Arent made one of his trademark accessories in the early Krimis (in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/015-krimi-pocket-review-terrible-people.html"><b>THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE</b></a> and <b>THE GREEN ARCHER</b>, among others) and provides most of the film’s “hijinks” quotient (e.g., he plays a knock-kneed rube when, early on, he thinks the murderer has returned to the scene of the crime to murder him in a garage; turns out, what he thinks is the killer keeping a hold of him from behind is really just his coat caught in a car door). Add in that the English voice dubbed for him is the same used for both Arent (and another Arent analogue, Peter Vogel in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/002-krimi-pocket-review-phantom-of-soho.html"><b>PHANTOM OF SOHO</b></a>), and it’s impossible not to see him as Arent</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s watered-down stand-in.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Edi Huber as the </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Arent”</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Scotland Yard assistant.</span></i></span></span></td></tr>
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of Arent’s stock character traits is his tendency to use “newfangled” scientific tools to help catch
the film’s villain. Here, Huber uses some sort of “footprint spray” that,
when sprayed on the floor of the mansion, reveals perfect impressions of the suspects</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>
footprints. Again, it feels like
a half-measure—an absurd element clearly meant for a laugh (like
Batman’s Shark Repellant Spray), but existing in so tame a form it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s hard to care whether it plays one way or the other. </span></span></i></td></tr>
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tweak of Krimi conventions is this film’s version of the ubiquitous
“Sir John” character. Instead of making him an exaggerated and comedic
presence a la Siegfried Schürenberg’s version, he only
exists as an unheard voice on the other end of the telephone. A
voice regularly berating </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Schönherr</span></span></span></span> for his lack of progress in solving the case.</span></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">After the murder in the club, the action shifts to another familiar Krimi location: the uppercrust aristocrat’s spooky manse, isolated, in all its baroque splendor, somewhere in the English countryside. Elford Manor becomes one in a long line of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Old Dark Houses”</span></span> that serve both as a way to strand all the murder suspects-slash-victims in the same location for large chunks of the running time (a la Christie’s <b>TEN LITTLE INDIANS</b>) and a way to introduce any number of Gothic elements that would otherwise be (critics would argue: still are) out of place in what is ostensibly a Scotland Yard detective film.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The third murder set-piece, and the one that most recalls those in <b>THE INDIAN SCARF</b></span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">, where every murder gives us a sequence of the
killer’s hands readying the scarf as he approaches his next victim. Both films also show the killer emerging from secret passages in the walls to attack his victims in their room. </span></span>Note, below, the echo of the killer</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s pov shot in each film.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">A coveted inheritance is also key to <b>NYLON</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>’s</b> story</span></span>: Helga Sommerfeld, whose character</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> parents were killed in a mysterious auto accident, has taken their place on the oil company</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> Board. Her uncle, who is also one of the directors, may or may not have had her parents killed—and may or may not be planning just the same for her, in order to get the rest of her money (again, this is very similar to the plot surrounding Uschi Glas’ character in <b>COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS</b>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Sommerfeld</span></span> played the leggy, always-lingerie-clad photographer at the Sansibar Club in <b>PHANTOM OF SOHO</b>. There, even in limited screen time (and burdened by having the eye candy role), she’s given infinitely more to do. Here she is meant to be both the ingénue-in-distress character and she who falls in love with the inspector. Mostly she spends her time being menaced in the “Old Dark House”. Or being sexually harassed by all the leery old men on the Board of Directors. Coupled with her limited screen time—and how unimaginatively her role gets fleshed out—it all leaves her character feeling fairly blank.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Another <b>SCARF</b> echo—and perhaps the most important—is the casting of series golem Ady Berber as not a villainous, sub-human, hulking killing machine (as in <b>THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE [1961]</b>, Vohrer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s seminal <b>DEAD EYES OF LONDON [1961]</b>, <b>DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS [1962]</b>, </span></span><b>STRANGLER OF THE TOWER [1966]</b>) but as a surprisingly sympathetic hero. Both films use Berber’s outsized screen persona as a “beard,” to hide a plot twist that reveals his true nature. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In <b>SCARF</b> he plays Chiko, a former wrestling champion who is employed as a servant in the old dark house. His introduction though—which finds him lumbering into the mansion through one of the guest’s bedroom windows, in the middle of a raging thunderstorm, scaring the soon-to-be murder victim out of his wits—is clearly meant to reinforce Berber’s villainous, beast-man image. A hulking brute stalking each member of the cast.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Likewise here, where he’s introduced sporting burn-victim facial prosthetics and is shown using those aforementioned secret passages to sneak around. Turns out, though, that far from being the film’s killer, he’s actually the faithful servant who saved a young Sommerfeld from the fiery car wreck that killed her parents (which is why his face is now so badly disfigured). And all his sneaking around the house? It’s so he can get </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Sommerfeld</span></span>’s character alone long enough to tell her that the car accident was no such thing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This reversal of Krimi character types reached its apex in films like <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html"><b>THE SINISTER MONK (1965)</b></a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b>THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1966)</b></a>, where years of Eddi Arent playing the buffoon sidekick were suddenly (sometimes a bit brutally) traded for casting him in the role of sadistic killer. It is perhaps most effective in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/011-krimi-pocket-review-circus-of-fear.html"><b>CIRCUS OF FEAR (1966)</b></a> as he spends most of that film doing his familiar, pratfall schtick … only to be revealed at the end as a bitter criminal mastermind who has been taking revenge on the rest of those in the circus—via throwing knives in their backs—because the death of his knife-thrower father traumatized him in his youth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(In </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b>SOHO</b></a></span></span>, he plays a priest who turns out to be the head of a white-slaving ring [and who mugs a shot that echoes the villainous Klaus Kinski]); in his most human and fleshed-out role, he plays an unassuming and overly polite servant in </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html"><b>THE SINISTER MONK</b></a></span></span> ... who again turns out to be the neck-snapping taskmaster of a white-slaving ring. He also plays a futuristically outfitted safe-cracker in <b>1966</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s THE TRYGON FACTOR</b> ... which remains one of the Rialto Wallace</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">s that lack an official English-friendly release.</span></span> See the reviews linked above for more on Arent</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span> screen persona.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /><b>NYLON NOOSE</b> is not, despite its stylistic lack (and its flimsy feel), one of the worst examples of the genre (for that see <b>PUZZLE OF THE RED ORCHID [1962]</b> or <b>THE GORILLA GANG [1968]</b>). But because of the lack, it can’t imo be considered anything more than solidly middle-of-the-road. It is also a Krimi that becomes more interesting the more Krimis you’ve seen, as most of its appeal arises from the ways in which it riffs on recognizable characters and plots to create exceptions to those Krimi rules. If a longer version exists, it may go some way in righting the thinly sketched wrongs that currently exist in the film; I</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’d </span></span>definitely like to see that version if it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s out there</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Reading the Arrow booklet that comes with their release of Yasuharu Hasebe’s <b>MASSACRE GUN</b>, a surreal-o-noir from 1967 that is every bit the brother of <b>YOUTH OF THE BEAST</b> and <b>BRANDED TO KILL</b>, I came across the following in Jasper Sharp’s essay on the film. In its own way, it’s just another way of saying everything I’m trying to talk about, when talking about how the best Gialli and Krimis operate. I.e., the oneiric and dream logic passages that distinguish the top-tier Gialli for me. The <i>Stimmung</i> and horror-mystery-grotesqueries that make the Krimi all part of that same dream. Basically, the phantasmagorical elements that, if they didn’t exist in these two, twinned genres, I wouldn’t be bothering with any of this writing here (emphasis added):</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“... representative of a more hardboiled strain of Nikkatsu Action movie that became increasingly stylized and self-referential over the next decade. They often deployed the same acting talent, with male stars such as Jo Shishido and Hideaki Nitani moving from supporting to more centre-stage roles, and <b>invoked <i>mukokuseki</i> (</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>‘borderless’) onscreen worlds that, in their embrace of an aesthetic and iconography gleaned from the international language of foreign pulp cinema of the same vein, seemed more and more divorced from any recognisable, lived-in Japanese reality,</b> while simultaneously expressing a sense of cynicism and despair at the path up which modernity was leading the country. When combined with some of the most striking and idiosyncratic monochrome widescreen scope cinematography seen anywhere in the world at the time, certain titles transcended their modest potboiler ambitions to find their place within the loftier echelons of cinematic artistry.”</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So: <i>Mukokuseki</i>. <i>Stimmung</i>. <i>Ero-guro-sensu</i>. Oneirism and the logic of dreams. A whole cast of characters that share existence in the same universe, conjured in this peculiar flicker of film to do only one thing: Recur. And recur. And recur. </span></span><br />
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krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-53477403018573234122015-07-24T01:00:00.000-05:002016-01-27T20:09:13.563-06:00GIALLO IDENTIKIT #013 [DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK aka PASSI DI MORTE PERDUTI NEL BUIO (1977)]<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>INTERESTING
VISUAL TOUCHES ABOUND:</b> This abstract, churning lava lamp intro (which,
as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with the rest of the movie) is
one of several examples of how visually distinctive this goofy, tonally
schizophrenic movie can be. And how much craftsmanship has been put into
an otherwise wonky and amateurish film: Case in point, a plodding,
ominous footfall is at first the only soundtrack we hear for the
credits. (Also, in a vague way the visuals here remind me of the
fetal / chicken imagery that opens <b>DEATH LAID AN EGG</b>.)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>THE FIRST SET-PIECE IS THE BEST:</b>
And these credits cut to the most promising portion of the film:
delivering an opening train scene that references countless past Gialli
(the pleasing use of the killer</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>s pov is a highlight), Italian exploitation movies like Aldo Lado</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>s <b>NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS</b>
(a key sequence in the train bathroom recalls the repugnant bathroom
scene with Macha Meril), and the Margaret Rutherford Agatha Christie
adaptation <b>MURDER SHE SAID (1961)</b>. Pradeaux also shows solid genre chops in his use of the train compartment to introduce the film</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>s rogue's gallery of stock suspects</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span>a
prickish fashion photographer and his airhead model girlfriend, a
suspicious looking priest, a stuck-up, buttoned-up upperclass woman,
etc. That the film goes off the rails so quickly (and so consistently)
makes makes one feel the letdown all the more.</span></span></i> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ii. </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sleaze-Art-Sleaze Giallo</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> iii. Train-Tracks Giallo </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In My Giallo Top 50 (Y/N): </span></span><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No</span></span></span></span></span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[THE COMEDY PROBLEM]</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Krimi%20Pocket%20Review">I’ve covered</a> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html">more than once</a> the sometimes unsatisfying, hybrid nature of too many Krimis: the broad, cartoon way that “camp” elements rub up against the violent and grisly elements. And how this disconnect makes it difficult for some people to take the genre seriously. (Or, perhaps worse, how it encourages people who have only dabbled in the genre to assume that this is the default style for all 70+ Krimis made between 1958 and 1972; i.e., the </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Scooby-Doo argument</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span>.)<br /><br />Roberto Curti’s book on Eurocrime, <b>ITALIAN CRIME FILMOGRAPHY, 1968-1980</b>, talks about this phenomenon in terms of the uneasy and ineffectual ways that slapstick and sex-comedy elements were eventually married to the Eurocrime. And how the appearance of such inappropriate, unconvincing hybrids were one signal—as they were for the Spaghetti (Euro-) Western before—that the genre had reached its last, box-office gasps.<br /><br />So, too, with the Giallo. Where comedy, even in the most accomplished examples of the form, has always threatened to let the air out of the rest of the film. I</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>ve talked to people who simply can</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>t get over the juvenile, eye-rolling </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span>battle of the sexes</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span> conversations that Daria Nicolodi and David Hemmings have in <b>DEEP RED</b>. Or the painfully drawn-out </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span>clown car</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">” sequence that features the same characters.</span></span></span></span></span></span> (Tbh, that</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s the single reason I don</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t rate <b>DEEP RED</b> more highly in the Giallo genre generally, and Argento</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s filmography specifically; give me the spot-on, rarely belabored, even deadpan-by-comparison humor of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/giallo-identikit-001-tenebrae-aka.html"><b>TENEBRAE</b></a> any day ...) ... not to mention: What do you do with a Giallo example that is, for 70 or 80% of its running time, structured as nothing *but* a comedy, something like 1977</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s sublimely weird <b>THE FIEND</b>?<br /><br />This comedy problem is the problem of Maurizio Prudeaux</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s <b>DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK</b>. Which is almost exactly equal parts Argento-inspired suspense set-piece and Three Stooges-like routine. I was reminded of the movie when I realized that the Leonard Mann I was watching earlier this month in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/giallo-identikit-012-monster-of.html"><b>THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE</b></a> was the same Leonard Mann (but older) who played the lead in this film. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And, I was reminded of how thoroughly bummed I was after finally being able to watch <b>DEATH STEPS</b>, a film whose title puts it in a long and distinguished line of Italian Gialli and Gothics using the same construction (<a href="http://letterboxd.com/ipcress/list/death-verb-prepositional-phrase-or-object/">Death + Verb + Prepositional Phrase [or Object, or Adverb] = A Giallo Tradition</a>). And that include such unassailable Giallo classics as Ercoli’s twin <b>DEATH WALKS</b> films. (If it resembles any of the other films in this tradition, it’s Pradeaux’s other Giallo, <b>1973’s DEATH CARRIES A CANE</b>, which features the same sort of jarring comic sensibility [see below for some more on that film]).<br /><br />Despite my disappointment, stumbling across Mann in another Giallo convinced me to go ahead and update my thoughts on <b>DSITD</b> (and do my usual due diligence re: screencaps).</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE SECOND MURDER SET-PIECE: </b>The set-piece murders are the most obvious examples of Argento</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>s influence on the film. After the first murder, each contains multiple shots of the iconic </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span>Argento Eye,</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> most memorably used in <b>CAT O</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>NINE TAILS (1971)</b> and <b>TENEBRAE (1982)</b>. In fact, the Giallo fan could be forgiven for thinking these shots in Pradeaux</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">’s film were directly lifted from <b>CAT</b> (I'm thinking esp. the burglary scene in the Terzi Institute).</span></i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">[PRADEAUX</span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">S OTHER GIALLO MISFIRE]</span></b></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The first time I ran into Pradeaux’s work was with the aforementioned <b>CANE</b>. Which I sought out (as mentioned above) because I had some small hope it might be in the same league as the two other <b>DEATH</b> films starring Nieves Navarro, those made by her husband Luciano Ercoli. This was not the case at all, and instead I found a film that felt, at nearly every turn, goofy and inept. During a key scene near the end, where Navarro and Robert Hoffmann break into a dance academy to find evidence that will reveal the killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s identity, Navarro</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s character (Kitty) declares—not once, but twice—</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>I need to pee-pee!</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”. This childish diversion is used </span></span>to get her character out of the scene long enough for a plot twist to occur, but it literally makes you cringe. I.e., this is the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s primary tone</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—offensively stupid, a live-action cartoon—over and over again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(I also discussed this comedy problem, this problem of tone, in my review of the Krimi / Giallo hybrid <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/008-krimi-pocket-review-monster-of.html"><b>MONSTER OF LONDON CITY</b></a>.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s these ridiculous shifts in </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">tone that kill all interest in it as a movie (for me at least), canceling out what should be a dynamite Giallo with a dynamite supporting cast (not only those mentioned above, but also Italian character-acting great Luciano Rossi and genre stalwart Simon Andreu ... the fact that both of these actors also appear in key roles in Ercoli</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s far, far superior <b>DEATH WALKS</b> films only made my disappointment with this one sting all the more). And, beyond the tone-deaf attempts at comedy (attempts that regularly alternate with attempts at softcore sleaze), the pacing and </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span>put together</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span> of the film suggests that Pradeaux didn</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>t have a clue (or, didn</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>t care to have one). There are so many diversions and red herrings that the actors whose presence should be iconic in the movie instead become a blur of forgettable and unconnected cameos.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />What can I say about <b>DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK</b>? A case of largely the same. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">A case of a film opening in almost perfect Giallo fashion, and then finding every possible way after that to fall down. The opening introduces us to a
motley crew of genre types, all traveling together on the Istanbul-Athens train. We are given a series of disorienting pov shots that lack any context (who are the characters being watched by the camera's eye, e.g.), other than the context that all Giallo fans have: We know we are watching the film through the killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s pov. The pov shots give way as he or she</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>clad, must needs, in black leather gloves and coat</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>enters the train bathroom and sabotages some wiring inside (again, we don</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>t yet know why this is being done; once the train enters the tunnel, and the compartment</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s lights fail to come on, we realize what the killer had been setting up [i.e., a chance to step in the titular dark]). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">After
we witness the murder, we realize that the opening was at least
partially a flashback, elicited by Robert Webber (playing the investigating
detective) interviewing each of the people who shared a compartment with
the murdered woman. Leonard Mann plays the prickish fashion photographer and appears to be the prime suspect even though he claims he</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s being framed (it was his knife used to stab the victim). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And after he</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s fingered as the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">most likely suspect, his desperation to prove his innocence becomes the site of most of the film</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s cartoon </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>schtick. While on
the run he poses as a female prostitute to evade the cops. Even though
his cross-dressed disguise is outwardly ridiculous, played for stupid laughs, and
wouldn</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t disguise him for a second. Later, Mann has rented a hideout from an old black market buddy, a shack that</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s built dangerously close to train tracks. Every time the train passes, the shack and everything in it shakes like a prop from a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. And toward the end of the movie, Mann and crew break into a house in order to burgle the contents of a safe ... except they don</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t know how to crack a safe. So they sit in the dark in the house and read a manual on safe-cracking (?!?!). What makes the scene even more unpalatable is that it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s cross-cut with a gory throat-slashing that</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s taking place (unbeknownst to Mann</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s character) in the room next door.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">These skits give way to another brutal, gory, tense-as-tense-can-be murder set-piece, cycling the film back to its previously abandoned </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>thriller</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span> mode: </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>A/V QUALITY MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THESE MATTERS:</b> One of the reasons I found the set-pieces so masterfully crafted no doubt has to do with the surprising quality of the a/v on the bootleg. Most of these obscure Gialli, if you ever find them on bootleg, arrive in what I call <span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span>roadkill quality<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span>. Colors bleached, the transfer blipped and scratched, an all-around low-fidelity version of the film. That <b>DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK</b> looked so unexpectedly good raised its overall effect several notches. In fact, the a/v quality is even better than the two official releases I've seen of <b>DEATH CARRIES A CANE</b> (for info on the strange history of the German and Austrian releases, including NSFW screencaps, go <a href="http://whiggles.landofwhimsy.com/writings/dvdimage-cane.html">here</a>).</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">What further confuses the viewing experience is how the hybrid nature of the movie gets another jarring element forced into its mix: Some truly eye-popping softcore scenes. Mostly</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> eye-popping because the body
parts being featured in frame are the subject of !extreme! closeups. Not
quite <b>SISTER OF URSULA</b> territory, but close.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Add too many subplots + derivative and aimless red herrings + a tacked-on, incomprehensible ending (the killer has the thinnest of motives imaginable) + a final gag that brings the film back around to the safe-cracking joke (and an exasperated Mann mugging to the camera) and you get pretty much what you pay for with a Pradeaux film. I.e., a live-action, R-rated, nerve-gratingly-bad cartoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">ps. Working through this discussion of hybrids has also inspired me <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/p/introduction-annotated-list-inspired-by.html">to add a new sub-genre to my Giallo Master Page</a>, the Comedy / Giallo Hybrid. I</span></span></span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>ve listed this film, as well as a handful of others in that category (scroll to the bottom of sub-genres to find it).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>VERSION WATCHED:</b></span> Bootleg <b><span style="color: yellow;">| LANGUAGE:</span> </b>English (the Italian track was included, but without subs) <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| DIRECTOR:</b></span> Maurizio Pradeaux </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| WRITER(S):</b></span> Arpad DeRiso, Maurizio Pradeaux </span><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| MUSIC:</b> </span>Riz Ortolani <b><span style="color: yellow;">| CINEMATOGRAPHER: </span></b>Aldo Ricci </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| CAST:</b></span>
Leonard Mann (Luciano Morelli); Robert Webber (Inspector); Vera Krouska (Ingrid Stelmosson); Antonio Maimone (Omar Effendi); Barbara Seidel; Imelde Marani; Albertina Capuani; Nazzareno Macri; Luigi Romano; Bartolillo Palma; Susy Jennings (Ulla)</span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-31092681113878016312015-07-17T23:34:00.000-05:002015-07-27T20:28:51.395-05:00GIALLO IDENTIKIT #012 [THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE aka IL MOSTRO DI FIRENZE (1986)]<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE BLACK GLOVES COME OFF:</b> Though <b>MONSTER OF FLORENCE</b> references any number of iconic Giallo moments, the tone and movement of the film is decidedly atypical of the Argento-type most people identify with the genre. The question is: Does its deviation from established rules amount to anything interesting?</span></span></i></td></tr>
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is the thirty-second post in a continuing series discussing and
analyzing all the Krimis and Gialli I've seen. As with every post on
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My Giallo Rating: </span>★★</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">½</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="background-color: #990000;">(out of 5) </span></b></span></span> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Subcategory (if any): </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> i. </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meta-Giallo (aka Experimental Giallo, aka Existential Giallo)</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> ii. </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Country Giallo </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> iii. Sleaze-Art-Sleaze Giallo </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In My Giallo Top 50 (Y/N): </span></span><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No</span></span></span></span></span></b> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[GIALLO BY WAY OF </span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">POLIZIOTTESCO]</span></b></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Lately I’ve been reading Roberto Curti’s <b>ITALIAN CRIME FILMOGRAPHY, 1968-1980</b>. In it (amidst writing that unfortunately could stand a better translation) he not only gives what must be a nearly definitive year-by-year cataloging of Poliziotteschi, but he also makes clear many of the different subgenres at play (sometimes at odds) in the larger filmic world that is the Eurocrime. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Two “veins” in the larger genre, according to Curti, include what he calls the “politically committed” Eurocrime and the “tough cop” Eurocrime. The “politically committed” vein “echoed the paranoid atmosphere of a country plagued with terrorism and corrupt secret services,” at times “portray[ing] infamous real events with just minimal changes” and made documentary-style “instant movies” that were meant to reflect</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">with an unprecedented immediacy</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>the social and political unrest dominating Italy’s headlines. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">They tackled (sometimes seemingly predicted) real-world chaos. The Piazza Fontana bombings, the murders of District Attorney Palermo Pietro Scaglione and Commissioner Calabresi, unchecked kidnapping and terrorist attacks. They tended to veer, politically speaking, to the left. Directors whose films typify this movement within the larger genre include Damiano Damiani (<b>CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN</b>, <b>HOW TO KILL A JUDGE</b>), Carlo Lizzani (<b>THE VIOLENT FOUR aka BANDITS IN MILAN</b>, <b>SAN BABILA-8 P.M.</b>), and Elio Petri (<b>WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY</b>, <b>INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION</b>).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />On the other hand, the “tough cop” version—“labeled as fascist by many critics”—featured “hard-boiled, gun-crazy cops, ruthless and sadistic criminals, brutal violence, heists, shoot-outs and spectacular car chases in the city streets”. All while managing to avoid “any true political colors”.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Curti argues that the “tough guy” Poliziottesco “cunningly exploited the viewer’s dissatisfaction and demand for justice, just like Italian Westerns captured their audience by exploiting violence and sadism”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—that it did this</span></span> while also remaining politically confused, even meaningless. One minute the tough cop would be railing against left-wing laws that tied his hands in the line of duty, that invariably freed—through political corruption, bleeding-heart reforms, institutionalized cronyism—the guilty criminals. The next he’d be preaching “tolerance like a left-wing activist” and highlighting the economic stressors that practically destined lower-class citizens to a life of crime. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For examples, think of nearly any Eurocrime starring Maurizio Merli (as his oft-reincarnated Inspector Tanzi/Betti persona), or films like <b>THE BIG RACKET</b> (Fabio Testi) or <b>A MAN CALLED MAGNUM</b> (Luc Merenda).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />That is, though Curti identifies several more forms the Eurocrime manages to take, he sees these two in a kind of constant tension with each other:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />One seeks a documentary and stripped-down immediacy to tell “true” versions of the stories populating Italian newspapers each day. The other exploits an overheated, “hyper” state of spectacle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">One seeks stories shot through with liberal, left-leaning politics that challenge the corrupt and authoritarian institutions controlling Italy at the time (Church, State). While the other seeks stories shaped by exploitation set-pieces—seeks to litter its running time with exploding cars, barking guns, off-the-leash vigilantes, and as many jaw-dropping stunts as their budget could afford.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I say all this to say: a not dissimilar tension can be found in the Giallo genre—a tension between the set-piece, dream-logic, drenched-in-hyper-style Gialli most often identified with the likes of Argento, and the more spare, more stylistically toned down, “based on a true story” Gialli. Fans of one couldn’t be faulted for not finding an affinity with the other—or even suggesting that those done in the non-Argento style can’t be called proper Gialli at all. Cesare Ferrario’s <b>THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE (aka, IL MOSTRO DI FIRENZE; 1986)</b> is firmly in the non-Argento camp and purports to give a fictional but “true” retelling of a real-life (and still unsolved) case in Italy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It does this, at times, with what feels like a dearth of overt style, with an insistence on eschewing the kind of spectacle found in an <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/giallo-identikit-004-opera-aka-terror_14.html"><b>OPERA</b></a> or a <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/giallo-identikit-001-tenebrae-aka.html"><b>TENEBRAE</b></a> in favor of something that feels closer to the flat and unimaginative choices too often made for TV (while watching <b>MONSTER</b> I was reminded of Sergio Martino</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s 1993 TV miniseries <b>PRIVATE CRIMES</b>, only nominally a Giallo; and only nominally in the Giallo style)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">. <b>MONSTER</b> is also, I’d argue, too elusive for its own good—denying any and all “solution,” “resolution,” “narrative payoff” for the mysteries it tries to involve the viewer in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In its own understated (and, yes, *unsuccessful*) way, it experiments with the Giallo form, dividing the film into two halves that compete with each other by presenting two routes to narrative “truth” (even if the arrival of that truth is only ever postponed): <br /><br />The first is the procedural investigation. The second, the “facts” of the case as rewritten, scene-by-scene, by a novelist character who is part of the very film he’s writing. It</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s a film that could play just as easily on a double-bill with 1975’s <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/giallo-identikit-009-das-netz-aka-net.html"><b>DAS NETZ</b></a>, 1971’s <b>BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY</b>, and the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Lizzani</span></span>’s aforementioned Eurocrime, <b>BANDITS IN MILAN</b> (the first half of both films, for instance, consist of an episodic nature that re-creates past crimes and the events leading up to them). That it is less successful, less engaging, less *everything* than any of those three movies is unfortunate, but not fatal (at least not for the Giallo completist in me).<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">(I’ve also read that it is a cinematic sibling to another, much more graphic telling of these same events, <b>THE KILLER IS STILL AMONG US</b>, also from 1986. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to track that one down as of yet.)</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A CLASSIC GIALLO POV ... IN A NOT-SO-CLASSIC GIALLO:</b> The murder that opens the film, at first shot from the killer<span style="font-size: normal;">’</span>s perspective. It sets both the template for each killing, and the non-Argento tone the film is to follow.</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>[PART 1: THE AIMLESS PROCEDURAL]</b></span></span><br />The film begins with one of the Monster’s crimes, his murder of a couple in the woods that he attacks while they</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>re making love in a tent. It</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s a particularly grisly attack, the killer first emptying his gun into the two naked lovers, then using a knife to finish off the man who has, despite being riddled with five bullets, attempted to stumble his way out of the woods and to help.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In this first murder we also get the most important (and repugnant) part of the Monster’s ritual: his removal of the “left breast” and “pubis” of his female victims. That the film shows this ritual dismemberment in a way that hides what’s actually taking place—only later, through exposition delivered by the cops, do we realize what we were watching</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>gives perhaps the first clue the tact that most of the film will take. I.e., an elusive, removed, even aloof rendition of the events:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There is no closeup shot of a Giallo killer using a knife to stab his female victim’s genitals (a la <b>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?</b> or <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b> [or, let’s be honest, many other, more tasteless exploitation examples). There is no, though the scene has plenty of gore up until this point, long, lingering, refusing-to-blink camera staring at the truly gruesome violation of the corpse (a la, among others, Fulci).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Instead it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s an example of the film’s stylistic elusiveness—an unwillingness to show or make concrete almost anything about the mystery. It</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s a potentially interesting technique, experimental in its “anti-” tone (re: an audience’s genre expectations), but one whose cumulative effect in this movie is to make the whole thing feel blank. Uninvolved. Often impossible to engage with. (Certainly never gripping or suspenseful or tense. In this way, it is a failed version of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/giallo-identikit-009-das-netz-aka-net.html"><b>DAS NETZ</b></a></span></span>. Not only because <b>NETZ</b> also trades in the non-Argento version of the Gialli, but because both films structure their story with flashbacks that are the fictionalized retelling of a serial killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s exploits over many years. And both use a book being written by a neglected, stopped-up writer as their primary frame story.) </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The further failure of this procedural half is to set the audience up to expect several plot twists and payoffs. First, there’s Gabriele Tinti’s reporter character, who arrives at the scene of the crime in dark-orange shades (glasses that made him look so different, I almost didn’t realize who he was) and proceeds to order around an entourage of junior photographers and reporters. His entrance in the film makes him seem important, and seems to set him up for some key role in the solving of the mystery.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Instead, he disappears from the film for nearly an hour, and only reappears to have a brief dinner scene with two other characters (a dinner scene full of meaningless dialogue and zero character development), so that his character</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s presence</span></span> in the film adds up, narratively, to nothing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The two characters who join him for dinner are the main surrogates for the audience. One is fellow reporter Giulia (played by Bettina Giovannini). The other is her lover, a novelist who has half-heartedly undertaken a book about the Monster</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s killing spree (Andreas Ackerman, played by genre blank Leonard Mann). In these opening scenes, the film spends a fair amount of time priming the audience to suspect that Andreas may in fact be the Monster himself. It seems to be more than just </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">writer’s block that prevents him from finishing his book on the killings </span></span>(considering an entire year passes between each murder, for 16 long years, one wonders what he does with his downtime). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">E.g., when Giulia leaves the crime scene and calls home to check in with Andreas, we</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>re shown an empty desk, his unattended typewriter, and the unanswered ringing of the phone. There</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s a murderer loose, and this tortured writer is nowhere to be found:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later, when Giulia goes to his apartment, he<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s still missing (we learn later in the scene that he</span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s been unreachable for two days, more than enough time for him to have committed the latest murders):</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It</span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s possible to read Giulia's unease in the scene as not just concern over her lover having gone missing for two days, but as real suspicion. We learn from the conversation that follows (shot with no light in the room but that cast by the desk lamp) that Andreas is a brooding, “strange,” tortured-artist type. That he</span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span>s developed an unhealthy obsession with the murders. An obsession that has both dominated and stalled his life. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Our suspicion of him only grows, when Giulia describes seeing the bodies at the crime scene:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“That beast has killed again, just like you [Andreas] imagined it. I had a strange feeling today, over there at the woods. I had the impression that I was witnessing something I was familiar with. Something that … you had already described to me. Something you had already predicted with your imagination.”</span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Later in that same scene, after Giulia leaves him at his desk, Andreas gazes out the window of his apartment and appears to actually see glimpses of the crime that we watched at the start of the film. If we aren’t to read him as a pseudo-psychic profiler in the same vein as, say, <b>MILLENIUM’s</b> Frank Black, then we almost have to assume that he has some self-incriminating connection to the killings.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But this goes nowhere. There is never any case built up against him; nor is the notion that his writing is somehow intuiting or predicting the crimes developed in a compelling way. The second half of the film *is* structured as a kind of mental projection of the killer and his past as imagined in Andreas</span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span> book. But it</span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">s so muddled, so muted, so generic, that engaging with this narrative experimentation is hardly ever an option. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Even when the film tries to shake off its too-restrained, too-meandering vibe and instead go for obvious style, the results are just never that compelling. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another subtle touch (again, perhaps *too* subtle) in this sequence: When Andreas imagines the murder, one of the victims slumps over in the car. Her arm catches the car</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>’</i></span></span>s turn signal and switches it on. The camera lingers on the blinking orange signal before returning to Andreas in his apartment. When it does cut back to him, he</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>’</i></span></span></span></span></i>s holding one of the lighters behind his back, flicking its orange flame (that matches the orange turn signal) off and on.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">As the first section of the film ends, we also get a brief riff on Italy</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s Gothic past: Andreas leaves his apartment and visits the scene of the attack that opened the film. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">While there, in the woods, he finds the reflecting pool where the Monster stripped off his black gloves and washed the blood from his hands. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">He stops to stare at his reflection and, when he does, the reflection of the Monster suddenly appears next to him in the water. But when he looks up from the water, there’s nobody.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Finally, hundreds of feet away, he sees the man escorting a mysterious old crone into the back of a car (earlier he had glimpsed the couple in a theater, the woman wearing a very theatrical, almost occult-looking feathered coat). It is physically impossible that the man could have covered such a distance in the time that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s elapsed. Unless he</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s some sort of phantasm. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or just in Andreas</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’ head. (A thought that makes the second half of the movie possible).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[PART 2: THE FICTION WRITER<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’S </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>DAYDREAM]</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve talked about the notion of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Art as Trigger</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> on this site before. Usually in terms of a piece of art in a Giallo or Krimi narrative serving as the traumatic object that triggers the killer</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s spree. Think the painting in <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>. <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/pulp-art-idea-mill-3-sourcing-giallo.html">Or the statue in <b>BIRD</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/pulp-art-idea-mill-3-sourcing-giallo.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> source material <b>THE SCREAMING MIMI</b>.</a> Or <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html">the uncanny painting of Karin Dor</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/005-krimi-pocket-review-room-13-aka.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s mother in <b>ZIMMER 13</b>.</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Here art is a different kind of trigger: It is the thing that triggers</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>that makes possible the existence of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>the film</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s second half. If not for the book being written by Andreas (himself a fictional character in the film), we wouldn</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t have the second half of the movie. His book</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>his mental projection of its contents onto the otherwise unsolved story</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>gives the second half its shape. All the personal details of the Monster</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>what he looks like, where he comes from, why he</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s been driven to these yearly murders</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>are nothing but inventions by Andreas</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> author character. There is no </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>objective</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> evidence to back up or verify his version of events. There are no clues that get connected because of his groundbreaking research</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>no new discovery or break in the case because it turns out his intuitions are true. The second half of the film, though still shot with the first half</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s largely documentary- or TV-style flatness, is nothing but an extended reverie in the mind of of the author. Maybe the characters we see</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>the Monster, his mother, his impotent and strange father</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>don</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t exist at all, except as Andreas</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> inventions.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">On paper, this sounds innovative and a little brilliant. But again the execution lets it down. Again, the scenes we watch feel aimless</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>fail to *accumulate*: accumulate meaning, accumulate tension, accumulate any real dramatic weight. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
We get scenes from the Monster<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s childhood meant to show us the scene of his </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“originary” trauma. In their set-dressing they very much remind one of Carlo</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s childhood flashbacks in Argento</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s <b>DEEP RED</b>: there is the ancient, dilapidated Gothic villa; a traumatic childhood incident between mother and child that takes place during Christmas; a diegetic use of music on the soundtrack. Etc. But there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s nothing of the resonance, the indelible style, the displacing weight of direction and execution that we</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve come to expect in the best Gialli. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Even when the film returns to overt stylization, it feels like it never quite <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“gets there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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reliving his past self’s traumatic discovery of his parent’s sexuality.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This flashback-among-flashbacks, his witnessing of his parents</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> deviant sexual practices, is clearly meant as some sort of counterpoint (and explanation for) his murders. Surely, the flashback suggests, it is no accident that every couple the Monster murders is murdered while <i>in flagrante</i>. That this is a compulsion triggered by a murky, faux-Oedipal relationship with (especially) his mother. But ... it only ever feels like a rough draft. A thumbnail of what the film should be getting at. Even</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>if one wants to give the filmmakers as little credit as possible</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>a copy-and-paste job from countless Gialli past.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s precisely this inability of the film to successfully flesh out anything—to successfully pursue any of the stories it half-heartedly tells—to successfully “answer” even the smallest mystery it poses—that marks it as a failure. And a frustrating watch. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just as the Monster recoils from the lovers who chase him—once he has them alone in his car, parked in the middle of nowhere, under cover of dark, with nothing to stop him from consummating his lust but his own emotional ineptness—so the film seems to absolutely shrink from any hint of resolution.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />In the case of the killer, it is his impotence (caused, our novelist no-hero fantasizes, because of his mommy issues) that forces him to shrink from the women throwing themselves at him. In the case of the film, (I’d argue) it’s an insurmountable lack of imagination. A default attitude that makes the film always less than the ideas it fails to pursue. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Note: I watched the Blu-ray version as released by Germany’s filmArt. The disc offers two versions of the film, a shorter Italian cut that contains some low-quality inserts, and a longer “International” cut, which clocks in at 101 min. There's an opening title card in German that I assume discusses the differences, but the major one I noticed—other than the visual quality seemed better throughout on the longer version—comes during one of the murders, where we get additional scenes of the Monster dragging a dead female victim back and placing her in a car. Where he proceeds to practice his ritual of dismemberment (again, it's shot in an oblique manner, with the camera appearing to be placed beneath the car). I suspect there are other, more minute differences, but this sequence seems to be the main one. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Both German and Italian soundtracks are offered, with English subs for both. The German track definitely is the higher quality, with the Italian track suffering from a persistent hiss from start to finish. Even with that problem, I watched both versions in Italian.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>VERSION WATCHED:</b></span> <a href="http://www.diabolikdvd.com/category/World-Cinema-%28Browse%29/Night-Ripper-%28Film-Art-%5Bsl%5D-Il-Mostro-di-Firenze%29-%28Import-DVD-%5Bsl%5D-Blu~Ray-Combo-All-Region%29.html">German filmArt Blu-ray</a> <b><span style="color: yellow;">| LANGUAGE:</span> </b>Italian soundtrack with English subs <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| DIRECTOR:</b></span> Cesare Ferrario </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="color: yellow;"><b>| WRITER(S):</b></span> Cesare Ferrario, Fulvio Ricciardi, Mario Spezi </span><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| MUSIC:</b> </span>Paolo Rustichelli <b><span style="color: yellow;">| CINEMATOGRAPHER: </span></b>Claudio Cirillo </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>| CAST:</b></span> Leonard Mann (Andreas Ackerman); Bettina Giovannini (Giulia); Gabriele Tinti (Enrico); Francesca Muzio; Federico Pacifici; Alberto Di Stasio; Anna Orso (Mother of a victim); Lydia Mancinelli; Antonio Ballerio; Gil Baroni </span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-7673192072581720572015-07-01T22:50:00.003-05:002015-07-02T22:35:59.372-05:00#020 KRIMI POCKET REVIEW [THE ZOMBIE WALKS aka IM BANNE DES UNHEIMLICHEN (1968)]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In which Krimi camp do we find <b>THE ZOMBIE WALKS</b>? The eerie, and eldritch, and </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stimmung</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-heavy? Or the </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>it</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s all an eye-rolling, kitschy, self-aware joke</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span>?</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">[This is the thirty-first post in a continuing series discussing and analyzing all the Krimis and Gialli I've seen. As with every post on this site, <b>SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My Krimi Rating:</span> ★★★☆☆<br /><span style="font-size: normal;">Subcategory (if any): <br /> i. Heist / Master Criminal Krimi<br /> ii. Inheritance Scheme Krimi</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Who Portrays the Detective (amateur or official): <br /> Joachim Fuchsberger (official)<br />Who's the Ingénue: <br /> There isn</span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>t one, at least not in the proper sense of the genre.<br />In My Krimi Top 20 (Y/N): No </span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">[THE KRIMI / CAMP COMPARISONS]</span></b></span><br />I</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>ve discussed this before (most extensively in my review of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html"><b>1967</b></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS</b></a>), but it bears repeating:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I generally don</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>t find myself in the “campy fun” (ah) *camp* when it comes to enjoying or not enjoying a Krimi. Yes, the Scooby Doo factor that is always under the surface of the mystery—sometimes bubbling over, overwhelming everything else—is undeniable, and there</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s never any shortage of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>comic relief</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> tripping out of the mouth of Eddi Arent, Siegfried Schürenberg, Hubert von Meyerinck, or the two or three actors who played ... wait for it ... Scotland Yard</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Sgt. Pepper</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span>. But it is categorically the thing I enjoy least.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I'm not anti-comedy—Joel Hodgson</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s sometimes-awkward, sometimes-winking routines make him one of my comedy heroes—but in the Krimi it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s the profound weirdness, the irrational style, the iconic visual sense that draws me in. And keeps me chasing after all the ones I haven't seen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">(I cover this a bit more in-depth in, among other places, the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“[BACK TO BHAG]”</span></span></b> and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>“[AND WHERE DID ITS <i>STIMMUNG</i> GO?]”</b> sections</span></span></span></span></span> of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html"><b>THE AVENGER</b></a> review.)</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>THE ZOMBIE WALKS</b>, then, represents an odd (and always shifting) balance between reading the film as “camp” and reading the film as “eerie”. I.e., the choice between the tradition of so-bad-they</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>re-good pulps—pulps plastered with what Cornell Woolrich scholar Francis M. Nevins describes as “one-dimensional macho protagonists, preposterous methods of murder, hordes of cardboard gangsters, dialogue full of whiny insults, (and) blistering fast action”—and the tradition of the so-called “weird menace” or “shudder” pulps. As far as the color Krimis go, on balance, <b>ZOMBIE</b> ends up closer to the top of the heap than the bottom; but its problems are still undeniable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(What are my Top 5 Color Krimis? Excluding the later entries that have also been claimed as Gialli</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS</b>, <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>, <b>CAT O</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>NINE TAILS</b>,<b> WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?</b>, <b>NAKED YOU DIE</b>, and Freda</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s <b>DOUBLE FACE</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>I</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>d say: <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html"><b>1. 1969</b></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/013-krimi-pocket-review-school-of-fear.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s SCHOOL OF FEAR</b></a> [in the #1 spot by miles], <b>2. 1971</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s ANGELS OF TERROR</b>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b>3. 1966</b></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s </span></span></span></span></span></span>THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO</b></a>, <b>4. 1968</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s </span></span></span></span></span></span>THE ZOMBIE WALKS</b>, and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/011-krimi-pocket-review-circus-of-fear.html"><b>5. 1966</b></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/011-krimi-pocket-review-circus-of-fear.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s </span></span></span></span></span></span>CIRCUS OF FEAR</b></a>.) </span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The most obvious example of the tension between camp and eerie comes in the killer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s appearance. Kim Newman (in his 30-page <b>VIDEO WATCHDOG</b> review of the Rialto box sets) calls it: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“[t]he most overly grotesque masked villain in the series ... The Laughing Corpse ... has an overlarge skull-mask with articulated jawbone, a black broad-rimmed hat, a fright wig, red herring clerical robes (it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s not the suspicious vicar) and skeleton-pattern gloves that highlight a scorpion ring whose tail erects with a comical </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">‘boinng</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span> to administer scratches of lethal poison.” </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And all that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s true—it is, on one level, as cheap and Halloween-y an outfit as it sounds. But on another, there</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s legitimate creepiness attached to each of his appearances in the film. Legitimate eeriness. A character whose visual signature is a not-quite-successful scratching at the genre</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s patented <i>Stimmung</i>.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The articulated jawbone of his skull mask, right before he murders each victim, makes a hissing sound and slowly opens in a kind of blank but aghast facial expression that gets at the eldritch. And when he appears at the end of the movie, brandishing a wicked-looking machine gun, he</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s suddenly gone from camp to murderous weirdo (think, e.g., of Kinski</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s machine-gun spree at the end of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/014-krimi-pocket-review-squeaker-aka.html"><b>DER ZINKER</b></a>), or any of the larger-than-life gangster characters in previous Krimis, particularly the nasty turn by Gert Fröbe in <b>THE GREEN ARCHER</b>, where every scene he features in seems just an excuse to have him shove somebody down a flight of stairs).</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two of the murder set-pieces that give us glimpses</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span>either unnerving or silly, depending upon your taste</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">of The Laughing Corpse. This first sequence strongly recalls two highly similar passages from <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html"><b>1965</b></a></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/012-krimi-pocket-review-sinister-monk.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s THE SINISTER MONK</b></a>: both the roadway murder that occurs during the prologue, and later when the Monk (himself driving a car) kills a Scotland Yard detective.</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If you don</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t read it as camp, you read it as approaching the realms of the most effective (even while they</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re potentially ridiculous) Giallo killers, where theatrical styling induces not laughter, but unease.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />It helps that The Laughing Corpse</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> first appearance in the film takes the form of his voice only, a cackling laughter that fills the chapel where the funeral of local nobleman Sir Oliver is taking place. As his sealed coffin is being carried away by pall bearers, his voice echoes back to life, turning the somber mood into a collective freakout for all his relatives: At best it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s wholly inappropriate for someone to laugh his way through a funeral; at worst, it means the dead man is somehow undead, a Zombie-fied Ghoul, leering back into the lives of all those who were happy to hear him dead. <br /><br /><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[SOME STAB AT A SUMMARY]</b></span></span><br />Those characters are an assortment of local townspeople: There is the vicar; the undertaker (who inexplicably has his pinky-fingernail grown out and sharpened into a talon); a nosy reporter (Siw Mattson, almost the series-staple ingénue-in-distress character, except that she</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s much more active than that title would imply, and is only nominally Joachim Fuchsberger</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s love interest); plus the dead man's heirs.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Compared to the same year</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>MONSTER OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE</b>, its plot is light years better-executed, and doesn</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t suffer from the feeling of being underdeveloped, underdone. Something I</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve come to characterize, for lack of a better word, as the feeling that everything in the production—from staging to writing to acting to mood—feels too “small” to be convincing. I.e., that the world that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s being created up there on the screen just never really arrives *as a world*. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And the comparison to <b>BLACKWOOD</b> is apt, because both films juggle a large cast of secondary characters who are all, in some way or another, secretly involved with the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s central mystery. They</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re all also being systematically murdered because of this obscure connection. <b>BLACKWOOD</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> working out of this plot feels forced and constantly padded out (all the snake scenes in the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Old Dark House</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> set</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>yeesh!). <b>ZOMBIE</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> keeps clipping along, hitting one weird node after another.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(The plot also features pleasing echoes of future Gialli: Moneybags Sir Oliver was supposedly killed in a plane crash, but many of his effects—including his “Scorpion Ring”—remain missing, which leads his paranoiac brother to begin to believe that Sir Oliver the Zombie still stalks the family manse. And leads an insurance investigator to try to dig up some dirt on the plane</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s crew members. Interestingly enough, Sergio Martino</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>CASE OF THE SCORPION</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>S TAIL</b>—which features distinctive scorpion jewelry as a key plot point—also revolves around the investigation of a rich magnate whose death in a plane crash is questioned, and members of the plane</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s crew who may or may not have had a hand in the plane</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s sabotage.) </span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The casting offers both strengths and misses: I'll never not be happy with Fuchsberger as the lead detective, and I'll never not be annoyed by Hubert von Meyernick as the replacement “Sir John”: He goes from annoying to sexually offensive in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/009-krimi-pocket-review-man-with-glass.html"><b>THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE</b></a>, perhaps his bottom-of-the-barrel performance in the series. Here it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s his first Sir John appearance, and tends to focus less on his breathtaking sexism and more on his old-man incompetence in the role of a largely ceremonial head of Scotland Yard.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE BUFFOON IN THE ROOM:</b> My heart always sinks when I see Siegfried Schürenberg</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s successor in the cast. </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Hubert von Meyernick (right) is both incompetent and sexist, steering the film</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s tone too often into Benny Hill territory.</span></i> </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And beyond the other familiar actors—Pinkas Braun of <b>DOOR WITH THE SEVEN LOCKS</b> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/010-krimi-pocket-review-hunchback-of.html"><b>THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO</b></a> fame; Siegfried Rauch, who plays the doomed pickpocket in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/016-krimi-pocket-review-college-girl.html"><b>THE COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS</b></a> and the nitroglycerine expert in the second (and best) <b>KOMMISSAR X</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> film—</span></span>there are at least two cast additions that help make the film. One is Claude Farell, who plays an austere, forbidding, and (frankly) frightening head nurse. Her line delivery and clenching face give you the impression that she could, at any moment, pull out a cruel-looking medical blade and gut whoever she happens to be talking to right then. She *almost* achieves the same sort of grotesquerie that Elisabeth Flickenschildt regularly excelled at.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The other is Wolfgang Kieling, who plays the dead man</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s estranged brother, his de facto heir despite the fact that the two brothers hated each other in life. He plays it full-tilt Grand Guignol, giving a sweaty, spastic, neurotically terrified performance (both physically, and with his line readings). Slouching and posing in and out of scenes like it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s capital-T-Theater … His highly tailored suits, black leather gloves, and spray-on beard join other iconic character accessories in the genre ... his ill-looking eyes frightened globes projecting weirdness into all he sees. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When, at one point in the movie, he</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s found on his knees before his own mausoleum stone, taking chunks out of his name with a hammer, what he pulls off reminds me of the best moments of the Price-Poe films. And there are moments in his performance when he manages to conjure the missing Kinski. Like in another scene, he sits in his housecoat theatrically smoking a cigarette while conspicuously wearing those black gloves again ... a shorthand sketch of the decadent, perverted rich, and a kind of visual ringer for Kinski</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s house-coating-about in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html"><b>DER RACHER</b></a>. I'll be very happy to find him in any other Krimi I can.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">[BUT ... TOO MANY MORE WEAKNESSES]</span></b></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Despite these casting strengths (and how indelible the Zombie</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s visual signature is), there are too many more elements I can</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>t justify, or quite get a handle on. For instance, one key character</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>Ramiro, the local stonecutter</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>appears in the film decked out in full-body green paint. According to the movie, this paint</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>his </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“olive-green skin color” (which is caused by a rare disease and doesn't look olive-green but totally fake)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“allows him to pass as Creole”. Which in turn makes him the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s resident expert on zombies. I mean, uh, what?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I have no idea what this means, or is trying to imply (or if it</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s some form of an “exotic othering” of the character a la Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu or—more problematically—Al Hoosmann's Bhag in the aforementioned <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/018-krimi-pocket-review-avenger-aka-der.html"><b>RACHER</b></a>). At the very least, it is unnecessarily distracting. And lets some of the air out of the otherwise weirdo reveal of the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s climax. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(It makes the slightest bit of thematic sense, as green is a dominant part of the movie</span></span></span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s color scheme</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>any time the Zombie appears, he tends to be lit in a wash of pale green just as he murders his victims. But still.)</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">There</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s also the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s awkward, half-baked handling of its zombie theme. One need only think back to the nuance (and genuine creep) of something like Tourneur and Lewton</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s <b>I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE</b>, 1943, to understand how unsatisfyingly rendered things are here: </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"></span></span><br />
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NIGHT OUT AT YOUR FRIENDLY, NEIGHBORHOOD “ZOMBIE” JOINT: </b>Some of this
cartoonish, even offensive caricature is down to the time period—consider,
e.g., that just a year earlier, in a film as mainstream as <b>YOU ONLY
LIVE TWICE</b>, Sean Connery</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i>s Bond passed as legitimately “Japanese” by
having his eyes “slanted” with prosthetic makeup. And that was
apparently “okay,” not only with everyone involved, but with audiences
too. But some of the treatment here is also just clunky in its execution: Fuchsberger and </span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Pagé go out on a dinner date, to a </span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“West Indian” restaurant that serves a drink called the </span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Zombie”. Nearly as quick as we get the lame exposition about what zombies are, though, we leave the restaurant because </span></span></span></i></span></span></span></i></span></span>Fuchsberger</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s Inspector Higgins is called away to the first murder committed by The Laughing Corpse. The scene is nothing if not unnecessary padding.</span></span></span></i> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Also <b>ZOMBIE</b> gives us another example of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">the series</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> tendency to shrink from the sexually transgressive limits that previous entries had already broached and passed. It</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s a strange, schizophrenic tendency in the genre, a regressive one that makes the chronology of the series feel confused (because you would assume that, as censorship relaxed later in the series, the less hamstrung its portrayal of sexuality would become): </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Some of the later, color entries feel like they</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’ve</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> gone more tame than their black-and-white predecessors, afraid to trespass the same onscreen depiction of sexuality that had taken place during a time of more-stringent censorship. While others feel like they</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>re pushing so far into unapologetic exploitation that they take your breath away (<b>SOLANGE</b>, both in terms of plot points and onscreen depiction of taboo sexuality, comes to mind).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For example, the sexual politics in New Scotland Yard's office, though played with some of its tongue in cheek in earlier entries like <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/004-krimi-pocket-review-mysterious.html"><b>1964</b></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/004-krimi-pocket-review-mysterious.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> <b>DER HEXER</b></a>, here goes full-on silly, with Ilse Pagé</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s Scotland Yard secretary playing a cartoon who </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>goofily plies the unresponsive interest of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Joachim Fuchsberger</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> “Higgy”. A similar setup is given to Fuchsberger (and his inveterate bachelorhood) in <b>HEXER</b>, but there it feels much more adult; more sensual; more subversive. Not only because there</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s actual flashes of nudity, but because the erotic and bodily charge between Fuchsberger and his love interest (played by Sophie Hardy) is palpable. Compare the following sequences, <b>ZOMBIE</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> in color, <b>DER HEXER</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s</b> in black-and-white: </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note her childish, immature pouting; the tendency for her character to be played as a one-dimensional cliché of the </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">lovestruck secretary</span></span></i>”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. This kind of regressive, adolescent nonsense does these entries no favors.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>s not hard to see which one feels more erotic and adult. Also, in 1964, it seems like at least some of that scene must</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ve raised (at the very least) a few eyebrows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Critic Norbert Grob argued that the best Krimis:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"... play a double-edged game with what happenes on the film's surface and what seems to have happened <i>[my note: not unlike the Giallo</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>obsession with the hidden, indecipherable image seen or mis-seen by the film</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’s protagonist]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i>. What glimmers through is the level at which the images take on a third meaning that tell it like it really is: images of the crude and the garish, of the sardonic and the shocking. These crime films punch a hole in the accustomed order of things. They challenge us to see the world differently, to get away from habitual ways of thinking, to clear the way for <i>imagination</i> ...</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If that is our definition of what the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“best” Krimis accomplish, then it becomes at least a little difficult to class <b>THE ZOMBIE WALKS </b>among them.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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This is the tenth in a series of reviews that will focus on
genres related to the Krimi and Giallo; for more info, read <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-policy-change-for-2015.html">this post</a>. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span>As with all posts on this site,<b> SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Christian Keßler, in his liner notes for Camera Obscura's Blu-ray release of <b>SAN BABILA ORE 20: UN DELITTO INUTILE (1976)</b>, writes:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“The development of many a film enthusiast’s love for Italian cinema proceeds like a reverse zoom. You start with a certain genre and slowly grope your way into all the other areas that were captured by Italian film cameras. In my generation—who experienced its cineastic socialization during the 80s of the last century—the advent of home video as an instrument of leisure-time-refinement determined this development. … The reason why Italian cinema is decidedly well-qualified for this backward-orientation is in part due to the fact that artists didn’t seem to be shy when it came to their occupation with the ‛vile</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span> genre cinema. Renowned theater actors like Enrico Maria Salerno could be seen in prestigious art house movies but also in police thrillers …”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Not only do I think that</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s true, it feels just the tip of the iceberg: the nature of the multi-country “Euro-pudding” film productions of the era carry Keßler’s observation far outside Italian cinema. For instance it’s easy to find, in this “reverse zooming,” the genre faces from one European country populating the genre pictures being made in another. The popular genres in one, reconstituting themselves in the culture and film industry of another. Which is another way to say: This kind of cross-pollination is what put me on the track of Wolfgang Staudte</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s <b>HOT TRACES OF ST. PAULI</b>.<br /><br />I only discovered it because of its German-born star, Horst Frank. He who I’d first seen in Dario Argento’s sophomore Giallo <b>THE CAT O’NINE TAILS (1971)</b>. There he plays the urbane-but-grimacing Dr. Braun, the Terzi Institute’s in-the-closet genetic researcher—he who may or may not be selling corporate secrets to the opposition. When he isn't busy frequenting the “St. Peter’s Club” and breaking Umberto Raho's heart.<br /><br />After that, while working my way through <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Krimi%20Pocket%20Review">the German Krimis</a> (many of which can be viewed as, as much as anything, proto-Gialli), I watched him in one of the “Men’s Adventure Krimis”<span style="color: yellow;">**</span>, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/019-krimi-pocket-review-bumper-edition.html"><b>1966’s</b> <b>JERRY COTTON: THE TRAP SNAPS SHUT AT MIDNIGHT</b></a>. There he plays a gangland boss holding NYC ransom with a stolen shipment of nitro, dodging Jerry Cotton’s (George Nader’s) best efforts to ferret out his secret stash.<br /><br />A gangland boss, but another urbane one: We get our first glimpse of him, floating in shorts and open shirt in his penthouse pool. He pilots a remote-controlled boat through the water as he sighs orders at his gang—he splashes them with his feet as his body language tells us that, more than anything, he finds this whole gangster schtick exceedingly passé.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So it’s refreshing to see him point his onscreen persona in another direction, as a deeply amoral ex-con who trades refinement for wanton violence. This German-produced slab of 70s-era exploitation—Constantin is the same co-producer, with Rialto, responsible for the “official” Krimis done from 1959-1972—exists right alongside its Italian Poliziotteschi brethren, with the same kind of in-the-streets, low-budget grit and sweaty, underworld sleaze weighing on its aesthetic.<br /><br />Frank plays Willy Jensen, incarcerated for a bank heist gone wrong. He spends his time on the inside insisting that the half-a-million bucks he stole got “lost” while he was trying to evade arrest. Nobody buys this story, instead assuming he</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s stashed the loot somewhere and is just biding his time until he can return to his hiding place and collect (shades of Gastone Moschin’s predicament in <b>MILANO CALIBRO 9 [1972]</b>). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In order to get himself out of prison (and back to the phantom money), he fakes swallowing a bottle of cleaning solvent. This gets him into a hospital van, and outside the walls of the prison. En route, Frank slugs the guard riding with him and he (or a stuntman double) literally steps out of the moving ambulance (!) and into the next leg of his escape plan.</span></span><br />
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just watched Takashi Miike’s 2002 remake of <b>GRAVEYARD OF HONOR</b>, I
couldn’t help but think of the ruse used similarly in that film. But, in
true Miike fashion, the prisoner doesn't just fake his sickness, he
stores the milk from his prison meals until it goes rancid, and poisons
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Snappy editing takes us through this first 10 minutes of the film, tempering a necessary setup of back story—expository dialogue cluing us into Willy's relationship with his brother Heinz; giving us thumbnail details about his pre-film heist—with a pace that keeps things from dragging: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">A desk sergeant muses, almost to himself, about how different “the Jensen brothers” are. This bit of exposition cuts directly to Willy in his cell, staging the fake poisoning. Which cuts to the ambulance ride and daring stunt. Which cuts back to the guards at the prison, discussing the bank heist. Only to be interrupted by a phone call informing them of Willy's escape. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And so on.<br /><br />Frank</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span>s Willy has prearranged his escape down to the detail. But, as is often the case in the Eurocrime universe, fickle fate seems poised to knock the scheming antihero down at every turn. (In this way, the story feels equally at home with the fatally tragic “coincidences” that show up in Noir plots; more on that below). Frank’s character arranges for a motorcycle and a change of clothes to be left for him on the outside. When he shows up to claim them, he finds that they’ve been discovered by a couple of roadside workers. And later, when he goes to the building where he hid the half-million bucks, he arrives just in time to watch a demolition crew flattening it. Burying, presumably, any chance for him to recover the money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Now
hopelessly broke, Willy decides his next best bet will be to shake down
his estranged wife and milquetoast brother. And milquetoast is right:
Heinz Reincke (pictured below) plays Frank</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s brother in true sad-sack fashion. He</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s a
lower-middle-class taxi driver, whose honesty and work ethic get him
nothing but further behind in life. We’re introduced to him in the
opening credits, as he uneasily eyes his fare, a woman so drunk that
she’s stripping in the back of his cab. His sense of fair play, his
sense of right and wrong (something so totally absent in his brother’s
makeup), drives him to turn the woman (plus a purse full of her money
and priceless jewelry) into the police. His good deed means that he
doesn't get paid for the fare, with the desk sergeant telling him he</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>ll
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This seemingly random event presents itself to brother Willy, in true Noir fashion, as the ticket out of his shitty criminal life: He impersonates his brother and goes to the house under the pretenses of collecting the unpaid fare. There he meets the woman</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s much older, industrialist husband (played by Krimi familiar Ulrich Beiger) and, during the course of getting paid for his brother</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s work, discovers there</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s an easily accessible safe in the man</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s study. Willy stakes out the house that night but fails to burgle the safe (as the safe</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s key has been moved from its hiding place). This sends him prowling upstairs to the young wife</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s bedroom, where he stumbles upon her massive jewelry collection. When she walks in on him, mid-theft, he doesn't hesitate a second in violently strangling her. Which sends the rest of the plot—and Willy</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s ultimate fate as the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s failing antihero—past the point of no return.<br /><br />(The fact that all of Willy</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s criminal energy seems fated, during a series of tragicomic mistakes, to end only one way echoes a recurring theme in the Eurocrime genre, what Dean Brierly, in his article on Italian Poliziotteschi in <b>Cinema Retro</b>, calls the genre’s tendency for “poetic fatalism”.)<br /><br />And, as mentioned above, as surely as the film belongs to Eurocrime, it also feels a part of the Noir worldview. Frank’s character, rotten though he is, also seems to suffer from an unrelenting run of bad luck—not just bad luck, but a kind of malevolent string of fuck-ups that seem visited upon him by the universe itself. He comes across as an antihero whose “anti”-ness has been forced upon him by an uncaring, inhuman world (dialogue between he and his brother points to a rough childhood)—a world whose very nature conspires to make it impossible for him to succeed or “go straight”.<br /><br />We also get plenty of other Noir set-dressing: Beiger as the probably corrupt (certainly uncaring) industrialist husband seems not at all sad when he comes home to discover his trophy wife</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s corpse. Heinz Reincke, as the aforementioned schmuck brother, whose honesty only gets him accused of murder by a police force more interested in catching his brother than preserving his good name. And a thoroughly seedy underworld that acts as constant backdrop for the action—a world of hustling club owners, unreliable fences, and put-upon working girls. An ailing urban world that seems stuck in an </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>after the boom</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> economic decay.</span></span><br />
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German Eurocrime also contains callbacks to that country's Krimi genre:
Here we see Ulrich Beiger calling in his wife's murder (notice her in
the background there, on the floor; notice also how he almost looks
bemused by the whole situation). Beiger regularly appeared in the Rialto
Krimis, with perhaps his best role coming as an unhinged villain (part
of a larger family of villains) in Harald Reinl's great and perverse <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/015-krimi-pocket-review-terrible-people.html"><b>THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960)</b></a><b>:</b></span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Christiane Krüger plays Frank’s estranged (and long-suffering) wife.
She's spent the two years of his incarceration in a relationship with
his brother Heinz. Frank discovers this, kidnaps her as hostage (so he
can escape a confrontation with the police), and proceeds to drag her
from one safe house to the next for the rest of the movie. Her character
is unfortunately little more than this—a plot device being bandied
between two brothers—and feels underdeveloped because of it. Likewise
with any possible dramatic payoff over whether she will survive the
ordeal.</i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the brother-on-brother violence. The violence in the film
doesn’t ever approach the depravity of other, better-known
Eurocrimes—think Tomas Milian and crew, juiced and on the lam, breaking
into a home where they humiliate (then machine-gun) men, women, and
children in Umberto Lenzi's <b>ALMOST HUMAN (1974)</b>—but it gives Frank the chance to show a
surprisingly nasty (and pleasingly unrefined) villain.</span></i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I watched the German Subkultur-Entertainment DVD, released as No. 3 in their </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>Edition Deutsche Vita</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> series. The disc here offers German soundtrack with English subtitles and solid DVD-level video. From the caps above (compressed, so don’t take them as 1:1 visual representations of the disc) I think you can see that the disc, overall, serves up a satisfying presentation of the film (considering, esp., the age and budget of the film). It will be interesting to see how much of a jump in quality we’ll see in Subkultur</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s next release in the series, <b>THE BRUTES (1970)</b>, which will be the first on Blu-ray. (The company</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s other Blu-rays—including Russell Mulcahy's <b>SILENT TRIGGER [1996]</b> and Eloy de la Iglesias’ <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-cast-4-cannibal-man-aka-la.html"><b>THE CANNIBAL MAN [1973]</b></a>, which includes never-before-released scenes censored from the film—tend to be nothing if not impressive.) This release also includes the film</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span>s soundtrack on a separate CD, a disc that's been on repeat-play around my house for awhile now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">June, 2015 </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />**I’d be the first to admit that this subcategory inside the Krimi is one I've not yet seen described elsewhere. It's one I designated, in reviewing and analyzing the 50-odd Krimis I've seen so far. I think there’s a case to be made, though, for its applicability. Films like those in the <b>JERRY COTTON</b> series (also, maybe even more so, the <b>KOMMISSAR X</b> series) share countless plot points, stylistic quirks, aesthetic moods, and (perhaps most of all) cast and crew with the Krimi proper. So much so, it’s impossible not to watch and “read” these films right alongside each other. Add in the fact that Krimi authors like Edgar Wallace were just as well-known for "men’s adventures" set in exotic locales and/or back-alley gangland worlds, and the connection seems undeniable.</span></span></span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-2945343650429292252015-05-25T21:32:00.001-05:002015-05-25T21:48:40.467-05:00[PULP ART IDEA MILL #13] Chris Offutt's “My Dad, the Pornographer”<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Writing, in recent years, has become a kind of self-defeating ritual for me, a trade whose craft is as important, as integral to my life, as anything else, but whose actual practice has become weighted with anxiety, stalled momentum, and (at the risk of overstating things) a kind of personal doom. Part of this stems from the quicksand that my day job's become (the need for a paycheck and health insurance trumping any “groaning in the spirit” that the tedium, mental antagonism, and office-politics bullshit induces in me; and, hey, I'm not so wrapped up in my own experience to not realize that, in many ways, I'm one of the fortunate ones: i.e., I actually have a job and paycheck; I actually have access to healthcare).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But even this awareness doesn't do much to shake the feeling that I'm not only spending my life doing something that is, ultimately, meaningless, but that I'm spending my life doing something that most certainly wasn't meant for me. I've tried (and mostly failed) to form small writing communities, writing relationships with like-minded folks</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>to foster support, enthusiasm, an environment that bolsters new work and skill. I've tried to form </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“social networks,” to seek out and support places that could become a home for my work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And whether it's because, at heart, I'm an inveterately antisocial person</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>or because I've not managed to be discerning enough in seeking this kind of fellowship</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>any success I've had as a writer (whether alone or in a community) has been modest at best.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">That sense of isolation (also a general loss of enthusiasm for endlessly submitting work to unresponsive parties) was one of the reasons I started this blog last year. I simply wanted a space to write about whatever I wanted to write about, regardless of readership, oblivious of monetization, no longer giving too many shits about what particular niche my writing supposedly fit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I say all that to say that my conception of writing</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>and any opportunity one might have to do it for a living</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span>has shifted dramatically in the past 10 months or so. The shift became more tectonic when I rediscovered my love for pulp paperbacks earlier this year (well-documented in the <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Reverie%20Series%3A%20Spillane">Spillane</a> and <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Pulp%20Art%20Idea%20Mill">Pulp Art Idea Mill</a> posts of late), and began picking up some of the discarded ideas of my writing past, for use in possible new work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the midst of this pulp rediscovery, I ran across <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/magazine/my-dad-the-pornographer.html">Chris Offutt's “My Dad, the Pornographer”</a>. A memoir-ish article detailing Offutt</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">'s recovery work in charting, sorting, and cataloging the porn fiction prodigiously written by his father (also some of the accompanying, incredible covers):</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“In the mid-1960s, Dad purchased several porn novels through the mail. My mother recalls him reading them with disgust—not because of the content, but because of how poorly they were written. He hurled a book across the room and told her he could do better. Mom suggested he do so.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The least interesting thing about the article (imo) is when the story being told exists mostly in relation to its author, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“the Pornographer's” son. Far more interesting is its descriptions of trade-craft; of the ways that </span></span>Andrew Jefferson Offutt V (and his 17 pen names) fashioned a system that allowed him to write and publish </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>more than 400 books</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Including novels whose plots sound straight out of Giallo lore:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span>The plot was a clever conceit. Someone had murdered a model for a bondage shoot, and the model’s sister was investigating the crime by posing as a model herself, which allowed for soft-core descriptions of restrained women.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or when the son takes the time to provide a kind of genealogy for his father's peculiar sense of authorship: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>His primary pseudonym, John Cleve, first appeared on </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 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style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> an imitation of Victorian pornography so precisely executed that the editor suspected my father of plagiarism. Dad found this extremely flattering. He concocted his pen name from John Cleland, author of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">‘</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Fanny Hill,</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> considered the first erotic novel published in English. Over time, John Cleve evolved into more than a mere pseudonym. Dad regarded John Cleve as his alter ego, a separate entity, the persona who wrote porn. Dad was adamant that he did not have 17 pen names. Dad had John Cleve, to whom he referred in the third person. It was John Cleve who had 16 pseudonyms, in addition to his own wardrobe, stationery and signature.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or when Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset asked </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Cleve</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> to write a </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>pornographic historical series about a single character during the Crusades</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”. His response, in letter form, carries with it both an </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>outsider art</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> kind of authenticity and a clear understanding of the dilemma faced by every </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>serious writer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">‘</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>I do not know if this is or could be my thing or not. I have difficulty with series. Like, I get bored and want to go back to creating. It is most difficult for me to write as if cranking the arm of a copy machine.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 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style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">‘</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Let us not bandy terms. I am an artist, whether these series books will be </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 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MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> or not.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span 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MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So I've started writing fiction again, and submitting. To what end I have no idea.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;">[<b>NOTE:</b> I still have one more review to post for <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Reverie%20Series%3A%20Spillane">Reverie Series: Spillane</a>, but in the mean time I wanted to write a bit about finishing John D. MacDonald’s <b>ONE FEARFUL YELLOW EYE</b>. Esp. in how that book relates to the Giallo. And the tradition of the monstrous feminine. As always, <b>NOTHING BUT SPOILERS BELOW</b>.]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b><span style="color: white;">[THE PERFUNCTORY SUMMARY]</span></b></span></span><br />Though I think the summary is the least-important thing about the book, I’m going to include it here so that the characters and scenarios discussed below have some context. The back of the 1966 paperback I have says this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Glory Doyle had been one of the broken birds. McGee had taken her aboard <i>The Busted Flush</i>, patched her up, and turned her loose to make another try at life. Now she was calling for help again. Someone had very quietly, very skillfully, extracted six hundred thousand dollars from her husband during the last painful year of his life. Blackmail? Obviously. But the how and the why ofit baffled McGee until he began to detect the lingering, unpleasant odor of sadism; until he began to turn up the nasty little bits of evidence left by someone who preferred to maim rather than kill, someone who liked to watch and savor the agony of his victim …”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Beyond Glory and McGee, the key characters for our discussion are the deceased (and extorted) Dr. Fortner Geis, his resentful daughter Heidi Geis Trumbill—who suspects that Glory has somehow stolen the missing money—and Anna Ottlo, the seemingly simple-minded maid who had served the Geis family for as long as anyone could remember.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><b>[SO WHAT OF THE SEX?]</b></span></span></span><br />From the start of the book, it's clear that Travis McGee's status as an intrepid "salvage expert" (he who travels the country on missions of recovery) is intimately, inseparably tied to the narrative energy MacDonald expends on nearly every female character in the story. A cry for help transmitted across phone lines is what gets McGee off "the sunny deck of his houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale" and into the "gray cold of Chicago." A cry for help uttered by one Glory Geis (nee Doyle):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>I was here because of the way Glory Doyle's voice had sounded across the long miles from a Chicago December down to a balmy morning aboard the Busted Flush at Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.<br /><br />‘Oh Trav,’ she said, a wan voice, deadened and miserable, ‘I guess there’s only one word. I guess the word is help. It’s a lousy leverage, huh?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />‘But I’d use it on you if I had to, Lady Gloria.’<br /><br />‘You’ll come up here? You really will?’</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Geis' relationship with McGee is a complicated, long-standing one, which started when he discovered her wandering, “broken,” out of her mind on a beach:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Four and a half years ago I had gone dawn-walking and found Glory Doyle sleeping on the public beach. She was twenty-nine. She was broke, loaded with flu virus, hysterical, suicidal, and mean as a snake. I packed her back to the <i>Flush</i> like a broken bird. As she was mending, reluctantly, I pried the story out of her, bit by bit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />She began to hear voices, and she knew that when she went out people nudged each other and pointed at her and told each other of the terrible thing she had caused.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Somehow you can tell the real crazies from the broken birds. This one was pure bird. She’d had just a little more than she could handle. She had to have somebody to hang onto, somebody who could make her see that her disaster was as much her fault as is that cyclone or flood or fire which takes all but one of a family.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Note the repetition of “broken bird”—of equating a female human being to a damaged animal that needs saving by a man—and the old-fashioned, even faux-chivalric direct address when McGee calls his old friend “Lady Gloria”. His salvaging of Glory involves a sexual relationship that develops between them, one that McGee “carefully disentangles” himself from when he deems it time to send her back into the world with her wings mended. And this isn’t his relationship to Glory only, but, with slight variation, it appears to be the default version all his significant female relationships take. Indeed, that special “salvage power” he exerts on the women who cross his path.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This includes Heidi Geis, who spends most of the book stopped up with (among other things) the wrong-headed notion that Glory must’ve somehow stolen all her dead father’s fortune. There’s also a subplot about a nasty divorce that Heidi has gone through just before the start of the story, one that set her up for life moneywise, on account of her ex-husband’s dalliances with both women and men. When Travis questions him about the reasons behind the divorce, he says he sought sex outside the marriage because Heidi <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/pop-art-idea-mill-6-some-thoughts-on.html">was pathologically unable to allow herself to consummate</a>. When McGee meets her, he gets a sense of this “negative sexuality” right away:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“She [Heidi] had that rare and contradictory look of being both slender and substantial, a look which I suspect comes from a certain breadth of shoulder, fruitful width of pelvic structure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Personal chemistries have not yet been isolated and analyzed by the physiologists. Here was a specimen in her twenty-five-year-old prime, in full bloom. Certainly the female of my species, beyond question. She had walked with a promising curl of power in the haunch. Her arms were crossed under a hammocked roundness of breast, and her mouth was of an understated sensuality in shape and dimension.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />But we were saying no to each other without any words. In my out-sized, wind-weathered, semi-battered, loose-jointed way I seem to get the right responses for my full and fair share of the fair ones, but I could not see any signs of impact, or experience any. Maybe Old Lady Nature sets up some kind of overriding counter irritant when the genetics are a bad match. I knew this could be a heady package for somebody, but not for the McGee. I had caught the smiling eye of the girl at the corner of Huron for a half-second, and it had been a resounding yes, both ways. A conditional yes. Yes, if it wasn’t too late for us by the time we met. Yes, but I’m sorry it can’t be.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />I wondered about the No which Heidi Geis Trumbill and I were saying to each other.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In his first-person narration, we are sure to get hints of the way McGee sees himself: A certain cockiness, a recognizable sexual machismo—how he gets his “full and fair share” of sexual partners, how he refers to himself in the frat-third-person (“the McGee”)—and a notion of McGee sizing up this possible suspect in the case not so much for how guilty she might be, but how beddable. Later in the book, after the case has seemingly been solved, Travis convinces Heidi to return with him to Florida, to his boat, to work on that “No” until it becomes a “Yes” (and not just a “Yes” for McGee, but for all men).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This after a book full of encounters that feel as though they’re included to convince the reader that McGee, whatever else he is, is a stand-up, morally circumspect guy. After all, he drops everything and comes to the rescue of Glory, a woman he hasn’t seen for four-and-a-half years, whose since married another man, who lives many states (and states of being) away. McGee as a character so morally circumspect that the reader shouldn’t bat an eye at the notion that, in terms of universal karma, he “deserves” this endless string of sexually attractive woman in and out of his <i>Flush</i> bed. No matter how you look at it—even on the evidence of just this one book—it’s a tough argument to take.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In that uber-masculine, uber-heroic construction of McGee there’s more than a whiff of old-guard, unexamined sexism—the male wish-fulfillment cliché of a rugged, extremely capable man whose daring investigations almost always include the “healing of a broken bird” (aka, a damaged female). That notion of the rational, able man as curative; a necessary societal measure to meet the “hysterical,” “uncontrollable,” wholly out-of-bounds woman. The </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>logic</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> of the man as the leash for the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“</span></span>emotion</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">”</span></span> of the woman.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This worldview, on its face of course, is nonsense. A kind of adolescent, perpetually arrested development in the meagre male mind. Despite MacDonald’s progressive attitudes toward the environment—evident in his willingness to divert the plot of his “airport mysteries” into tributaries that do nothing but make his “personal politics” clear—it’s hard not to at least question his depiction of the women in the story. Women who seem to exist in the McGee universe only in relation to the man himself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(It goes without saying that this same trait is present ten-, twenty-, one hundred-fold in Spillane. At one point in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-cast-5-girl-hunters-1963.html"><b>THE GIRL HUNTERS</b></a>, widowed Washington-DC power broker Laura Knapp—she who, of course, is immediately smitten with the raw, barrel-chested boulder of masculinity that is Mike Hammer: “She [Laura] pulled away, her breasts moving spasmodically against my chest. Her eyes were wet and shimmering with a glow of disbelief that it could ever happen again and she said softly: ‘You, Mike—I want a man. It could enver be anybody but—a man.’ She sturned her eyes on mind, pleading: ‘Please, Mike.’”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Likewise in other books sharing this same lineage—the Fleming Bond books I’ve read come to mind. Though the literary Bond’s sexual relationships are much more complicated than what tends to get depicted in the movies, it should also be pointed out how much more *disturbing* they sometimes are. Disturbing precisely because of this nuance, because of the time spent on constructing Bond as a male, sexual, character who also suffers from clinical-level depression, self-loathing, and a sometimes crippling lack of confidence.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The Bond of Fleming’s debut bears this complicated equation out. Many have pointed out that <b>CASINO ROYALE</b> serves not only as origin story, but as template and “explanation” for why the Bond character serially, even pathologically, throws over one woman after another. This is true, but inside the origin there is also seriously disturbing stuff. Like this passage: “And now he [Bond] knew that she was profoundly, excitingly, sensual, but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.”)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So I don’t want to exaggerate its presence in <b>YELLOW EYE</b>—and it’s just one McGee “adventure” I’ve read so far, so maybe it’s just an isolated blip—but it seems impossible to properly follow the shape of a McGee narrative without following this parade of “broken” females who can’t help but bloom and/or wilt in relation to McGee’s “therapeutic” skills. I.e., the narrative makes considerably less sense *as a narrative* if this repeating theme isn’t recognized—accepted as the “pattern in the grain” that is Travis McGee.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And it begs the question:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Does MacDonald’s use of endlessly alluring female forms—sometimes needy victims, sometimes conniving <i>femmes</i>—do anything to subvert, challenge, upend the convention as found in so many male-driven detective stories? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">No one would argue that part of the very appeal of the books is their packaging of these female forms prominently on covers (it’s what caught my eye and got the first one in my hands—take away covers like these by Ron Lesserr and my “enjoyment” quotient, my urge to collect them, can’t help but wane).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In many ways, it’s the equivalent question found in a Giallo that builds its narrative weight (also, viewer enjoyment) on nothing but the damsel-in-distress template established by key actresses like Edwige Fenech?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><b>[SO COMES THE GIALLO CONNECTIONS]</b></span></span></span><br />As with the “typical” Giallo, then, I’m not sure I can make a blanket statement about how this presentation (exploitation, manipulation, even “bad use”) of female characters makes me feel. As a reader or viewer. As a “consumer” of this particular mode of popular art. Even as a male.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the Giallo, my willingness to put up with (or put aside objections to) these sexist tendencies has to do with the success or failure of the story’s other cinematic, stylistic, oneiric traits. How strongly conceived. How memorably deployed. How bravura, each set-piece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Likewise with MacDonald, from the first page <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/pulp-art-idea-mill-8-strange-colors-of.html">(as I described in those initial impressions)</a> I was taken with the stylistic chutzpah thrumming underneath his “genre” prose. As the old cliché goes, when his narrative acrobatics are good, they’re great. And help ensure that my personal Geiger Counter—my sense of that singular thing that radiates from any and every thing that interests me creatively—keeps getting tripped.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Also, re: misogyny, there’s the point that Kim Newman makes in one of his Argento commentaries, that Argento’s films are, on the whole, significantly less misogynist than the films of Luis Bunuel or Alfred Hitchcock. And yet that never seems to stymy the critical praise they get—at least the pop-culture version of that praise [i.e., would anybody try to argue for a second at this point in film history that Hitchcock *wasn’t* a genius?])</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Michael Mackenzie, in his visual essay <b>GENDER AND GIALLO</b> <a href="http://www.mondo-digital.com/bloodblack.html">(available on the pretty-much-definitive Arrow Blu of Bava’s <b>BLOOD AND BLACK LACE</b>)</a>, takes up this discussion while formalizing his view of the Giallo. For his purposes, he argues that the representation of gender in the genre actually determines what sort of Giallo you’re watching: either “F(emale)-Gialli” and “M(ale)-Gialli”. Before focusing on gender, he traces the obsessions found in Golden Age Gialli to postwar uncertainty, the liberalizing and “breakdown” of European culture, sexual liberation, terroristic political activity, etc. He also connects the development of various “streamlets” within the Giallo <i>filone</i> from their headwaters, whether they be Film Noir or the “Female Gothic” films of the 1940s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">What is more interesting re: MacDonald is Mackenzie’s discussion of the Giallo’s tendency to present female characters as “problem(s) to be solved and contained.” Solved-slash-contained by the male protagonists and/or the investigative structure of the films themselves. As Mackenzie argues: “… for the most part, the F(emale)-Giallo protagonists are not doers. Rather, they are people to whom things are done.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This could just as easily be a description of McGee, his methods, and the emphasis in <b>YELLOW EYE</b> on women who come to exist *in relation to him*—in relation to his ability to “solve” them like problems. But Mackenzie’s description of M-Gialli also applies, making <b>YELLOW EYE</b> (perhaps the character of McGee himself) a kind of hybrid form.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">He argues that M-Giallo narratives are concerned with “male anxiety, confusion, and ambivalence towards the modern world and the changes wrought be recent socio-cultural developments including women’s emancipation, sexual liberation, the spread of urbanization, and the resulting feelings of imprisonment and alienation … a growing lack of certainty regarding men’s position in a world in which the old systems of privilege are being challenged on multiple fronts.” The male protagonists of these films are largely “ineffectual,” “essentially powerless to effect the outcome of the narrative”. For Argento's <b>BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE</b>, he focuses on the first and last encounters between the movie’s “detective” (Sam Dalmas) and sex-maniac killer (Monica Ranieri).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the first, Sam misunderstands—mis-sees—Monica as the victim of the sex-killer (instead of the truth, that she's the killer herself). In his last encounter with her, after he’s finally understood her role in the mystery, it’s only in time for her to dominate him. His death at her hands is assured—her containment impossible—but for the last-minute intervention of the police, who save Sam’s life and imprison Monica.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But even in this “solution of the female problem,” the world of the Giallo remains broken, unrestored. Mackenzie points out (as David Sanjek before him) that one of the key truths about the Giallo's worldview is that the <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/krimi-vs-giallo-notes-on-question-of.html">“resolution of [its] epistemological conundrum fails fully to restore either the viewers' or the characters' faith in a coherent moral or perceptual universe.” </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This is particularly appropriate to McGee’s final confrontation with the book’s real villain, a confrontation that finds him taken by surprise like a complete amateur, subdued before he can put up a fight, literally tied to a chair by ankles and wrists without any opportunity to use his masculine, animal abilities to free himself or save the day.</span></span><br />
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OLD AS ART:</b> The Gorgon’s Head—the mighty Medusa. First introduced to me
in a truly creepy <b>MURDER AT MIDNIGHT</b> episode starring Peter Lorre as a
criminal on the lam who has the bad luck of stumbling into a wax museum
run by a man who uses the Gorgon’s decapitated, still-ambulatory head to
turn fleeing criminals to “stone-wax”. There’s a long history of the
depiction of what’s come to be called the “monstrous
feminine” in literature and art (everything from Greek Myth to the <b>ALIEN</b> film series).</span></span></span></i> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><b>[McGEE’S FEMALE MONSTER UNMASKED]</b></span></span></span><br />The aforementioned whiff of sexism becomes full-on bad wind when we get the book’s final twist—that the malevolent power behind the bleeding dry of Glory Geis’ husband was that plodding, “meaty,” big-fisted ogre Anna Ottlo. Not only was the seemingly simple-minded, loyal-to-a-fault house mother not what she seemed—smart enough after all to systematically blackmail a dying man right out of his life—she was an even more unimaginable evil: a Nazi war criminal. She and her torture-partner husband escaped Germany by adopting the identity of Jewish prisoners they had murdered. And when McGee and Heidi go to confront them—in the dayglo and artificial paradise of an upscale retirement community—this sudden shock of remorseless torture, of unpunished war crimes, takes the fore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">McGee as protagonist—as ineffectual male “hero”—nearly ends the book without realizing that Anna is behind the blackmail-and-murder scheme. In fact he leaves the case behind when he and Heidi wing their way down to Florida to engage in sexual therapy; only as an afterthought—a nagging sense that he’s mis-seen some detail in the case (a Giallo-ism if ever there was one)—does he arrive at the actual solution. Part of it stems from a series of puzzle pieces that refuse to fit into the official “solution”. Part of it stems from a menacing dream that Glory—while recovering from being dosed with enough LSD to melt her brain—keeps having about Anna:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“‘I have a nightmare about her, over and over. She keeps clapping her hands in front of my face and telling me I’m burning up, that my skin is getting so hot I’m going to set fire to anything I get near.’”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When McGee is greeted by Ottlo—now under a new identity, further disguised—MacDonald invokes the notion of the monstrous feminine right away: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Her [Anna’s] white hair had been dyed a peculiarly unpleasant shade of building-brick red, and cut into a style that would have looked cute on a young girl, the bangs curving down to the eyebrow level. She wore dangling gilt earrings, a yellow blouse, purple pants, and zoris. It was a grotesque outfit for a woman in her middle fifties. The meaty face had lost no weight, and the pottery-blue eyes were the same.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">McGee is then taken from behind, with no inkling he is being attacked, only ineptitude in the face of such ambush. When he wakes up, he finds himself immobilized—thoroughly in the power of this Nazi torture master who had posed as a bumbling grandmother while bleeding those around her dry. The description of McGee regaining consciousness while tied to a chair could just as easily describe the immobilized, pseudo-coma state that Jean Sorel’s character “wakes up to” in Aldo Lado’s <b>SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS</b> (a physical manifestation of his [the male’s] narrative ineffectiveness):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“Brightness shone through my eyelids. My chin was on my chest. I tried to swallow the gravel packed into my throat but I couldn’t budge it. I opened my eyes and tried to sit higher in the chair and saw at once why I could not. It was a tubular aluminum lawn chair, the kind with a double bar for the armrests. My forearms were fastened with wide white surgical tape from wrist to elbow to the chair arms, wrapped around arm and armrest, tight and overlapping, so that my hands had darkened and puffed. My legs were straight out, heels resting on terrazzo, pants cuffs hiked up by the same kind of tape which had also been used to fasten my ankles together.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">While Anna recounts her escape from Germany, McGee is forced first to watch, then to listen to (which is actually worse) the torture that Anna’s “husband” (Perry) inflicts upon Heidi. In these moments, McGee is not only powerless, he is—worse—wholly unable to protect one of the female “birds” of the book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Anna’s monstrosity stems not just from what she’s willing to do while torturing McGee—an outcome that a man in his line of work must have anticipated—but the lengths to which she’s willing to let her “husband” go, in destroying the mind-body-soul of Heidi. Who was, after all, only tagging along with McGee on this adventure as a kind of lark—who is McGee’s companion at this point in the story only because of his irresistible sexual prowess. Her acceptance of his companionship means she also accepts these moments of wrenching torture, rendered not in gory, eye-witness detail, but as “off-screen” action whose shrieks act as a soundtrack for the conversation Ottlo and McGee have outside in the garden:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“A sudden harsh hoarse cry of anguish from Heidi sickened me. It sounded effortful enough to tear her throat.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />‘His little bird sings well for him. You understand, of course, about people like Perry. I like a bit of it, for amusement. But to him it is necessary. A sexual orientation, I suppose. First there must be the gross humiliations, the unthinkable violations of the precious citadel of self, with pain as the spice and fright as the sauce … what he likes best, to create those moments of ultimate hopeless horror when his companion experiences damage she knows cannot be undone, cannot be mended, and then begins to wonder how long he or she will be forced to sustain the burden of consciousness and of life itself.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Out of the silence Heidi began to make an explosive sound, a kind of squealing grunting sound repeated over and over in abrupt jolting rhythm, then dying slowly away.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Anna listened with tiled head, half-smile. ‘Ah, he is a rascal, that one!’”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Again, there’s the overlap with Sanjek’s conception of the Giallo universe—one whose damage “cannot be undone,” even when the mystery reaches its solution. Also, note that Nazi torturer Anna Ottlo also sees this female character as nothing more than a bird.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />So it’s not just Glory Geis’ post-traumatic dreams that are overpowerd by a lumbering, irrational Anna Ottlo—clearly MacDonald intends the reader’s to be as well. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Reverie%20Series%3A%20Spillane">the Spillane Series of posts</a> veered into <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/pulp-art-idea-mill-11-when-frank-miller.html">the intersection between his and Frank Miller's work</a>, I thought I'd post a partial review of the much-reviled <b>SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (2014)</b>. Note also another overlap: TV's Mike Hammer appears as the Jabba-the-Hut-like crime boss whose monstrous bulk gets temporarily wooed by Eva Green.</span></span></i> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[NOTE:
This is the ninth in a series of reviews that will focus on
genres related to the Krimi and Giallo; for more info, read <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-policy-change-for-2015.html">this post</a>. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is also the fifth in a cluster of Mickey Spillane-related posts <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/special-slipping-you-all-mickey.html">(see here for the intro)</a>. </span></span></span></span>As with all posts on this site,<b> SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I spent a fair amount of time, growing up, reading comic books, and a fair amount of time working my way through Frank Miller's various projects<span style="color: yellow;">**</span>. One thing that it brought home to me, as a reader, as a fan of the form, was that my appreciation of seemingly too many comics came lopsidedly weighted toward my appreciation of the art *in spite of* the writing. For me, the enjoyment / art-effectiveness / indelibility of something like <b>ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN</b> is 80% down to Bill Sienkiewicz's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Fe61NulTX4uuTp4MN59x988vJl2iqe57YIosqv9Z1OtMT1dUoYiH2KWz4fZ1Me5UTb37UdIQD5kx0aZwihhGRU8QoURwZY-nzpwdGpkYYeqrxESnhfs5REMQ35ji8YceCzoadf3Ldg98/s1600/elektra.jpg">imported-from-another-world</a> <a href="https://invasionofreality.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/crazy-eyes-elektra.jpg">art</a>, and only 20% to Miller's writing (despite how batsh*t the plotting gets by the end, and how intricately he works dream-flashback structures into the whole thing). <br /><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(One of the few exceptions to this art / story formula would be Moore and Campbell's <b>FROM HELL</b>.)</span><br /><br />This was sometimes true even when the work was written and illustrated by the same person (as was often the case with Miller; the sublime and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQeMhCHLYo95w_3dOIw2oAmfc-cBXDNhgR6qNZZDO5K7HqtE7BRIVy4pc78PcwosE0aXwp4wd9ah3p8LYjIgLeAe_armE0Ukq9Vvfkv6RoxGPwxoTke-n5x86Xqcx0FwU5i55B33WSbQ/s1600/945544-mind_24_large.gif">never-more-horror-infused</a> line work [not to mention the <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/elektra-lives-again-page-21.jpg">over-sized full-page compositions</a>] that he did in <b>ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN</b> will probably always be the high-water mark of his work for me). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And I remember being excited about <b>SIN CITY</b> when I first read it:The startling use of negative space, the uncorking of violence, the sleazier-than-sleaze story lines ... but I also remember cringing a little at the actual writing, the dialogue, and (most of all) that clunky narration. I knew enough about noir and hard-boiled detective fiction to know that Miller was attempting to do a riff on that style—or, maybe more accurately, a riff on our *perception* of that style at the time he was writing the comic ... part pastiche, part hyper-self-aware, part I-don't-know-what. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">But I also knew that, if you read any of it out loud (the old writing teacher standby: If you don't know how to revise it, read it out loud and figure out the rhythm that's missing), it often induced at least a minor eye roll. Even in Spillane, this tenuous execution of a voice that varies between real "<i>noir</i> poetry" (as Max Allan Collins calls it) and real "riddled with cliche," at least sometimes stumbles. When he pulls it off, it becomes one more part of the irresistible momentum of his prose. When he doesn't, it's all bum stutter.<br /><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(I feel the same about the way the "noir" writing of <b>100 BULLETS</b> comes off, another series that I stuck with for as long as I did almost only because of the Eduardo Risso art.)</span><br /><br />This came back to me while watching the first <b>SIN CITY</b> in the theater, right at the moment when poor Michael Madsen tries to deliver his "You've got a bum ticker" speech with a straight face. I cringed a little, and tried to pay more attention to the then-novel visual style that Robert Rodriguez and Miller had translated from the comics. It came back to me again while watching this sequel.<br /><br />From the bulk of reviews I'd read, I'd been prepared to actively dislike it, or feel pretty strongly that it was a pointless sequel showing up several years too late. (This the main reason I didn't spend the money to go see it in a theater.) I wouldn't argue with that assessment, but I do have to say that I was surprised by how much I *didn't* actively dislike it. Instead it felt like half of a good movie, with a bunch of slapdash, refired kitchen-sink stuff thrown in to fill out a feature-length running time.</span></span><br />
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the arrested, adolescent nature of much of Miller's dialogue
was all the more distracting now that the visual style here had become at least a little "old hat." (When Brolin intones through
gritted teeth "Never lose control. Never let the monster out" it was, in
microcosm, everything that's been hard to overlook in Miller's writing
for years.) </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The various, competing chunks of story—from the gratuitous
and silly prologue with Rourke's character hunting and killing a pack of
bored, Richie-Rich college kids who are, themselves, hunting and
killing homeless people</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>to
the subplot with cops Christopher Meloni and Jeremy Piven (perhaps the
most thinly drawn and cliche-ridden section of the story)—these chunks
hang together even less well than in the first film. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And mostly leave you wishing that the movie had spent more time developing the "Dame to Kill For" scenes, and less time jam-packing in every last <b>SIN CITY</b> Easter Egg it could think of.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And yet there are moments that take me right back to seeing those shockingly composed panels for the first time, and approximately half of the cast infuse this adaptation with some of the life that's still to be found in the first. Easily the standout is the <b>DAME</b> of the title, played with a snarling, wholly uninhibited, wholly manipulative verve by Eva Green. It's a performance that represents perhaps the best example of the intersection between the worlds of Miller and Spillane. Green's templated <i>femme fatale</i> could easily double as Spillane's original try at the trope, <b>I, THE JURY's</b> Dr. Charlotte Manning (interestingly enough, Googling </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>femme fatale</i></span></span> brings <a href="http://i2.pinger.pl/pgr273/1232934100285217489abbdb/eva.jpg">this image</a> up as the first result).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The movie's (and Eva's) choice to appear so often fully nude</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—nude in slow-mo, nude in her "goddess" swimming pool, nude in multiple sexual positions</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>also feels like a choice Spillane would have made. A natural evolution of his willingness to write sex and violence that tracked more authentically with the worldview of soldiers whose personal universes had been so altered, so deformed, by the realities of the Second World War.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Watching Green attempt to seduce Josh Brolin's character with nothing but her brazen, uncovered female form</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—though he's in full possession of the knowledge of how corrupt, how self-serving, how utterly untrustworthy she is</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—can't help but recall the palpable sexuality of the striptease done by Dr. Manning, in one last attempt to sway Mike Hammer, to erase her past treachery from his mind for as long as it takes her to commit the next (i.e., to reach the gun hidden behind his head so she can use it on him). Green's "performance," which begins once Brolin walks into his apartment and finds here there, undressed and smoking on his bed, is just the sort of convention</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"> that Spillane's writing helped force into the genre.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">When Green's character delivers the line "Sex always made you stupid," it's no different than what Charlotte Manning is repeatedly saying with her body, at the end of <b>JURY</b>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">"<i>(The sorrow drifted from her eyes, and there was something else in its stead. It was coming now. I couldn't tell what it was, but it was coming. She stood tall and straight as a martyr, exuding beauty and trust and belief. Her head turned slightly and I saw a sob catch in her throat. Like a soldier. Her stomach was so flat against the belt of her skirt. She let her arms drop simply at her sides, her hands asking to be held, and her lips wanting to silence mine with a kiss. It was coming, but I dared not stop now. I couldn't let her speak or I would never be able to keep my promise.)</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>(Her fingers</i> <i>were sliding the zipper of her skirt. The zipper and a button. Then the skirt fell in a heap around her legs. Before she stepped out of it she pushed the half slip down. Slowly, so I could get the entire exotic effect. Then together, she pushed them away with a toe. Long, graceful, tanned legs. Gorgeous legs. Legs that were all curves and strength and made me see pictures that I shouldn't see any more...)</i>"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And then there's Powers Boothe's version of Senator Roark</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>what with his power-corrupted hands being responsible for the breaking, maiming, raping of so many characters in the <b>SC</b> universe (in this film alone, you can count as black marks in his ledger Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Bruce Willis</span> ... not to mention the whole of Basin City itself)<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">. He's nothing if not an uber-sadistic version of the sexually violent villains that control, puppeteer-like,</span></span></span></span> the evil that gets deployed in a Spillane novel. The wholly inhuman sex-and-slavery ring that is presided over by a handful of ostensibly well-heeled society types in <b>I, THE JURY</b> comes to mind. Also<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—major spoiler</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—the big-faced, always-bikini-clad Senator's wife played by Shirley Eaton in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-cast-5-girl-hunters-1963.html"><b>THE GIRL HUNTERS</b></a>. His malevolence (so often amplified, projected through that visual trick with the eyes that Rodriguez and Miller use for several characters in the movie) feels of a piece with the rotten-from-the-inside power structures in Spillane's vision of postwar American society.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The other obvious through line is the "punctuating" violence of both Spillane and <b>SIN CITY</b>, the uncorked and "psychotic edge" given to all angles of the proceedings</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—the "berserk glory" of Spillane's depiction of wanton violence, depictions that still hold the potential to drop jaws when read today.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So plenty of pluses and cons in this one. An overstuffed, recycled, by-the-numbers pulpiness that gets set in opposition to the considerable shadows cast by Powers Boothe and Eva Green. <span style="font-size: normal;">I guess, for me, the very definition of uneven.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">**</span>And, you know, I won't begin to get into the dubious and offensive stuff that's been attributed to Miller in the past however many years. Sometimes it's showed up in his work in surprisingly unvarnished ways (I'm thinking of his version of the war on terror as presented in <b>HOLY TERROR</b>), or comes out in quotes about things like Occupy Wall Street. I don't know the guy, never will know the guy, and so in the space of an off-the-cuff movie review feel it 100% pointless to speculate about any reprehensible personal or political views he might currently hold.</span></span><br />
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krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-26021212806680370762015-05-16T18:42:00.003-05:002015-05-16T22:37:07.485-05:00[PULP ART IDEA MILL #11] When Frank Miller Meets Mickey Spillane<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SEE THE RESEMBLANCE?</b> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/pulp-art-idea-mill-10-spillane-by-book.html">The series of "negative-space" paperback covers that Corgi used to illustrate Mike Hammer in the 1960s</a> gets a kind of resurrection in the work of Frank Miller, here in 1990's <b>ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN</b>.</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the previous <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Reverie%20Series%3A%20Spillane">Spillane Reverie</a> post, I isolated a series of Mike Hammer paperback covers that most appeal to my design sense. In a postscript, I linked to a thumbnail image of a two-page spread from Frank Miller's <b>ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN (1990)</b>, whose composition bears a striking resemblance to the Corgi covers I highlighted <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/pulp-art-idea-mill-10-spillane-by-book.html">in the post</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Unhappy, though, with the size of that <b>ELEKTRA</b> image, I dug up my old trade paperback copy and scanned in one of the two pages (too tough to scan in the spread, without breaking the spine of the book). As I was doing that, I remembered how Miller did a reverse image of this scene in his <b>SIN CITY: THAT YELLOW BASTARD (1996)</b>. And, how his sense of negative space gets pushed further and further to its edge, its logical conclusion, as the <b>SIN CITY</b> series goes on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Nobody would take it as news that the hard-boiled pastiche achieved in Miller's <b>SIN CITY</b> bears, as a towering influence, the work of writers like Spillane</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—the extended passages of narration in Miller's crime work draw into focus both the strengths *and* weaknesses so evident in the development of this tradition (for a bit more about this, I'll be posting an off-the-cuff Review-Cast for the 2014 film adaptation of <b>A DAME TO KILLER FOR</b> shortly).</span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">The <b>ELEKTRA</b> image, you've seen above; directly below, you'll find the mirror image used six years later in <b>BASTARD </b>(one of several). Plus a number of negative-space compositions from <b>SIN CITY: HELL AND BACK (1999-2000)</b>, which I happened to have on hand, and which show the progression of this technique in his work. To compare them to the Spillane Corgi covers, <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/pulp-art-idea-mill-10-spillane-by-book.html">you can always go below</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>NOTE:</b> The last two SIN CITY images are from a two-page spread, separated by an absolute sea of white space.</span></span><br />
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<br />krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-87834077441397299252015-05-13T16:15:00.000-05:002015-05-16T18:43:56.822-05:00[PULP ART IDEA MILL #10] Spillane by the Book<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">For the third post in <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Reverie%20Series%20Spillane"><span style="font-size: small;">this</span> mini-reverie on Spillane,</a> I wanted to get in some "face time" with a few of my favorite editions of his work. My first-time viewing of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-cast-5-girl-hunters-1963.html"><b>THE GIRL HUNTERS</b> back in March</a> really set me on a path of (re)discovery, reminding me how much I loved paperback cover art (and book design in general) growing up. And that confluence, that rekindling of related interests, was basically the idea behind <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Pulp%20Art%20Idea%20Mill">the Pulp Art Idea Mill series</a> here on the site. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">What I found was a series of Corgi paperback covers from the 60s: high-impact, tantalizingly abstract, dominated by distinct colors and compositions in the frame <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/pulp-art-idea-mill-8-strange-colors-of.html">(and reminiscent of somebody else's candy-coded covers)</a>. I'm a bit unclear on artist info, though at least <a href="http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2011/04/mickey-spillane-cover-gallery-part-3.html">one site</a> attributes the <b>ME, HOOD!</b> cover to Renato Fratini. What I wouldn't do to walk into a bookstore and find a whole clutch of these on the shelf.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">As both appeared in 1963, I can't guess which influenced the other, but the level of synchronicity is pleasing to say the least. More info on either this specific series of covers, or Corgi's paperbacks in general, would be much appreciated!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">**For more fantastic Jim Steranko <b>SHADOW</b> covers, go <a href="http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-shadow-paperback-book-covers-by-jim.html">here</a>; some of James Bama's <b>DOC SAVAGE</b> work, <a href="http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com/search/label/Doc%20Savage">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">pps. The presentation of Spillane in a kind of emptied physical space, almost floating (and, for some reason, always seated or reclining), reminds me very much of <a href="http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/8/81542/1482831-6_elektra_lives_again_600x405.jpg">this sequence</a> from Frank Miller's <b>ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN</b>, a technique he would take to its negative-space limits in the various<b> SIN CITY </b>books. </span></span>krimi.giallo.casebookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636974621625771401.post-21147732177921880022015-05-12T23:44:00.002-05:002015-05-16T18:15:49.299-05:00[REVIEW-CAST #8] I, THE JURY (1982)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the eighth in a series of reviews that will focus on
genres related to the Krimi and Giallo; for more info, read <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-policy-change-for-2015.html">this post</a>.
This is also the second in a cluster of Mickey Spillane-related posts <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/special-slipping-you-all-mickey.html">(see previous post for details)</a>. As with all posts on this site,<b> SPOILERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED</b>.]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">If nothing else, I owe Max Allan Collins’ commentary on <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-cast-5-girl-hunters-1963.html">the recent, fab Blu-ray of Mickey Spillane’s <b>THE GIRL HUNTERS</b></a> for giving me some particular “points of interest” on the map of Mike Hammer. It gave me the legend (in both senses of the word) needed to navigate the novels, and a bit of context to understand (and know what to expect) when it came to Spillane’s thematic preoccupations. I started by reading a few of the books: Spillane’s debut, <b>I, THE JURY</b>; then skipping right ahead to the <b>GH’s</b> source; also the MAC / Mickey Spillane posthumous collaboration <b>THE CONSUMMATA</b> <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/pop-art-idea-mill-6-some-thoughts-on.html">(ultimately a disappointing exercise, despite one compelling thematic element threaded through the story from start to last)</a>. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I also, along the way, decided to order a book co-authored by Collins, <b>MICKEY SPILLANE ON FILM</b> (online and elsewhere he spends a fair amount of time complaining about its weak sales—“less than 100 copies”—which seem wholly attributable to its fairly ridiculous price tag). I ordered because he claimed it as the “definitive” last word on every screen and TV version of Spillane’s work. As I felt so *switched on* while watching <b>GH</b>, I couldn’t imagine not tracking down every adaptation possible (even the really awful misfires on TV). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />And it *is* a useful guide in the sense that it clearly describes the progression of both the films and the weirdly disjointed, self-repeating path taken by their TV cousins (chief among them the telefilms and series starring Stacy Keach). What becomes apparent pretty quickly, though, is that the book is more synopsis- and anecdote-heavy than anything. The anecdotal comments are, presumably, culled from Collins’ longtime affiliation with Spillane and include an opening biographical chapter that could fit just as easily as an intro to a new Spillane paperback edition. The book as a whole though, for my tastes, comes up a little light on analysis, real insight, concerning the films themselves. (And, when there is analysis, I often simply don’t buy the arguments being made.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Which is weird, because if any writer should have insight into the life and work of Mickey Spillane, it’s Collins, what with his decades of unfettered access to the man himself (so much access that he’s created a small industry out of “co-authoring” and publishing Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts). It also feels redundant as a text: Take a drink every time he mentions Spillane’s “popular Miller Lite beer commercials” and you’ll be plastered before you get to the final page.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Also: I’ve never understood this over-reliance on synopsis in film books—if you’ve seen the films being discussed, then dry, utilitarian synopses feel like a waste of time; if you haven’t, they’re mostly to be avoided because of the spoilers. The question becomes, then: What audience are they intended to serve? What are they doing except padding out word counts?)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Regardless <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/search/label/An%20Introduction%20of%20Sorts">(and in the spirit of the site)</a>, I’m going to use what I learned from the book as springboard, as points of departure from which discuss the Spillane I’m plowing through (esp. to emphasize what I continue to find, even in his most unsuccessful examples, so compelling). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />In this post I’ll cover the infamous, kink version of <b>JURY</b> from 1982. And then, in a follow-up post, I’ll tackle the first TV movie starring Keach, 1983’s <b>MURDER ME, MURDER YOU</b>.</span></span><br />
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IS MORE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING:</b> For a film full of
sweaty, softcore nudity, this scene</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>Velda giving Mike a shave in his
office</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>is easily the most erotic in the film. Also, Laurene Landon,
even in limited screen time, is one of the sterling strengths of the
film. She and Alan King almost offset the aimless, self-canceling shifts in tone that otherwise dominate the movie. It's also a moment that reminds me very much of the scene in <b>THE MALTESE FALCON</b> when Lee Patrick is attending to Humphrey Bogart (likewise leaned back in his office chair), right before the ship's captain comes in and drops "the stuff that dreams are made of" into their lap.</span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />According to Collins, this 1982 adaptation of the first Hammer novel was the only screen version to adequately capture a level of sex and violence "true to the books". Problem was, at the time of his recording, there apparently hadn’t been a home video release of the film (or, at least, not one that hadn’t long ago gone OOP). So I bided my time while trying to find a copy I could import ... except then I didn't have to: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In March, Sony's MOD arm released the film on DVD-R. Despite the dearth of extras (or the benefit of a proper pressed disc), it seemed too much of a happy coincidence to pass up.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And then more coincidences:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Anybody who’s read my reviews in the past couple years has seen me express an unreserved devotion to the ero-guro-grit-work of Larry Cohen. The truly horrifying, truly envelope-pushing aesthetic that even his worst films carry as proof; as their badge. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Whether the existential-religious dread of <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/review-cast-7-god-told-me-to-1976.html"><b>GOD TOLD ME TO</b></a>. Or his gutter-vulgar <b>VERTIGO</b> riff <a href="http://krimi-giallo-casebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-cast-3-special-effects-1984.html"><b>SPECIAL EFFECTS</b></a>. Or the truly narratively perfect <b>MANIAC COP 2</b> (yes, the sequel is head and shoulders better than the original, and plays like a Val Lewton film stripped of censorship and imposed “good taste”)—I’m (to borrow a tired phrase from a tired old man who spends his life stupidly mugging to today’s corporate geek camera through endless [endlessly annoying] cameos) a “true believer”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">So it seemed too good to be true when I learned that, with <b>JURY</b>, Cohen had tried to put his stamp on the work of this author I’d just been discovering these past few months. First as the director, then</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—after being</span></span> “fired by the money men” for going over budget</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span></span></span>relegated to screenwriting status.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE COHEN FACTOR: </b>One of Cohen's additions to the story is the character of a CIA-programmed sex-killer, which allows the story to feel very topical, very updated: The real villains in the story are the military-industrial complex, and their almost-occult level of invisible control over the country's daily events; in the original story, it's a group of high-society-posing syndicate bosses who are running an insidious, impossibly far-reaching prostitution ring that destroys lives left and right. </span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE TEXT BEHIND THE TEXT:</b> <span style="font-size: normal;">If
you're at all familiar with the conspiracy theories</span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span>and the supposed
use of "trigger texts" like <b>THE WIZARD OF OZ</b> and <b>ALICE IN WONDERLAND</b> to
program CIA assassins (and it's clear Larry Cohen was)—then you'll
understand the unspoken significance of finding one of the sex-killer’s
victims being gazed upon by this Alice in Wonderland sculpture. If you
know the context, it adds a certain spook factor to this too-brief section of the film—and if you've read the source
material, you can only lament how carefully constructed (deliberately
pieced together) this murder scenario is in the book. And what short
shrift it's given in the film.</span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><b>[COLLINS & CONTEXT]</b></span></span></span><br />Collins and co-author argue that Assante’s apparent miscasting (at the time, he was apparently most famous for playing “Goldie Hawn’s French boyfriend in <b>PRIVATE BENJAMIN</b>”) is actually a casting coup, providing the film with a portrayal that “is on the shortlist of great movie Mike Hammer’s” (it has to be said that this maybe has more to do with how short that list is to begin with). Collins argues that Assante brings “a psychotic edge” to his Hammer portrayal—Hammer as an “ex-soldier” who “simply doesn’t give a damn”—a film full of “Mike Hammer’s berserk glory”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And this is true … in spurts. But it’s not those spurts (or any kind of berserk tour de force) I find myself thinking of when the end credits roll, TV-style again, with a close-up on Assante’s puckered face right beside. It’s instead the sense of having just watched a tonal train wreck—an ill-advised gumbo (that’s more likely to cause indigestion than any kind of cinematic nourishment). It’s a “sum of its parts” problem, whose execution adds up to “distraction” more than “solution”. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(And hey: A film being tonally inconsistent isn’t any kind of automatic, formal deal-breaker—doesn’t disqualify the film from working successfully *as a film*. But the question becomes: Why the inconsistencies? Are they serving a narrative or thematic purpose? Are they borne out of an actor’s particular Method—do they exist to support characterization, experimentation, some innovative new-old form? Or, are they simply the end result of a troubled and rushed production?)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />For me, Assante comes across like a poor-man’s Mickey Rourke, whose performance has been infected by an almost comedic level of schizophrenia. He’s scattershot, all over the place, from zero to sixty and back again all in the same scene. One second he’s talking in the mumbling drawl of his professional bedroom voice—the next, screaming at his best friend’s widow to “Get fucked!”—then making wince-inducing jokes about Velda and his dead gold fish. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">(Re: the scene with his best friend’s widow: tbh, it’s one of his [and the movie’s] most authentic, fleshed-out scenes. It suggests, in its economy of screen time and dialogue, a toxic sexual-friendship—a complicated, impossible-to-sustain triangle—between Assante, his dead friend [whose death is the ostensible engine of the plot], and that friend’s widow. The fact that she doesn’t appear in another scene in the film, her importance and “through line” in the book wholly stripped out after this, is a good indicator of just how “off” so many of the choices made in adapting and cutting the work turn out to be.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />It would be great to be able to argue this schizophrenic, stuttering, all-over-the-place-ness is a narrative manifestation of one of the themes introduced by Larry Cohen’s script: that aforementioned schizophrenic sex killer who is being programmed by the CIA to, Manchurian Candidate-like, carry out missions that destabilize rival interests in society. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Or to say that the frenetic threading of one chunk of genre plot to the next is residual (and effective) thumbprint that points to Cohen’s signature mix of pulp grit, beyond-good-taste transgression, and a Lewton-like feel for genre pacing; genre shuffling; deployment of competing (yet somehow gelling) genre chunks. <br /><br />But, as much as I want to give that kind of credit to the movie’s cumulative effect, these inconsistencies undercut the film's aesthetic, suggesting one minute you’re supposed to be viewing it as a consequence-be-damned, full-tilt, grit-action-spectacle. Then as a nihilistic, self-destructive, unsolvable detective story. Except then it’s a pratfall comedy skit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />I.e., this fragmentation of Hammer that occurs in his updating doesn’t read as genre-effective experiment, compelling because of the new-old ground it breaks. Instead you can’t help but suspect it’s more a result of the troubled production, problems in funding, the firing and hiring of directors—an overall rushed, underwritten watermark on things. Little about Assante’s performance feels fleshed out or deliberate—rarely does it work in concert to support (or, more importantly, propel) the story’s dramatic weight. To phase it into our cinematic minds enough for it to seem present, “real”—to really “take”. To be taken seriously. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />A few cases in point: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The movie opens with Hammer scamming one of his clients—a traveling businessman who suspects his wife’s been playing away—by agreeing to take the case, only so *he* can sleep with the wife while the man’s out of town. Which—after the painfully dated TV-cop show credits (capped up top)—cuts to Hammer being informed that one of his best friends has been gut-shot and left to bleed to death by an unknown assailant. Hammer insists on seeing the body. He kneels on the floor beside it and appears to shed tears. This guy who, like two minutes earlier, was showing us his hairy posterior (and complete lack of moral compass) while banging his client's wife.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the book, his friend's death opens the story and cements the sense that the book is about a detective willing to take drastic action on his righteously angry quest to avenge that death. Opening the film with what amounts to a dirty joke (at one point, while <i>in flagrante</i> with the wife, he tells her husband on the phone how he's "busting [his] balls" on the case) is at best tonally unconvincing. And, at worst, eye-rolling and laughable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">It encourages us to see Assante’s Hammer as nothing but an oily, unlikable, and—above all else</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>*selfish* character. One we can't believe would shed tears while unzipping the body bag of his dead friend. It's an opening sequence that does the adaptation no favors, and sets the viewer up for the stream of unsatisfying, mutually-exclusive passages to come. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>WHERE DID ALL THE BOOK'S FRIENDSHIPS GO?</b> <span style="font-size: normal;">Not only is it hard to buy that this version of Hammer cares enough about his dead friend to risk his life in solving the murder, the movie feels like it simply loses grip on other key characters in the story (not to mention the larger Hammer canon). The most egregious is this film's version of Hammer’s best friend and professional
“beard” Detective Pat Chambers. Chambers' relationship with Hammer—and his own part in another self-destructive love triangle (Mike,
Velda, Pat)—feels enormously important to the books. Even when their
friendship turns toxic, with the baddest blood
coming between them in <b>GIRL HUNTERS</b>, it feels misguided to try to understand the shape of Hammer's universe sans Pat. Here he's not only given little to do, he really is miscast: Amiable, easygoing, far-too-rotund Paul Sorvino. In limited screen time he swerves from generic camaraderie to
histrionic outrage over Hammer’s antics. What little he has is writ broad, and to no
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Or take the fish-tank joke the filmmakers seem so enamored with: In at least three separate scenes we get a lame-but-running gag about how the fish Hammer keeps in his office keep dying. Assante overplays this scenario each time it comes up—it becomes broad comedy, that I guess was supposed to be black comedy, but that instead feels juvenile and without any idea what purpose it’s serving in the film. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />In one scene—the aforementioned opening that reveals him to be nothing more than a horndog snake—Hammer hands a dead fish to his client as he ogles a picture of the man’s wife. In another he hurls obscenities at the tank while complaining to Velda about the water temperature and why the fuck won't they stop dying. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Collins sees this as a comment on “the dark nature of the detective’s world,” an echo of the Hammer truism that anyone and everyone around him ends up dying (if they didn’t, many of the original novels wouldn’t have plots). But the execution is the thing, and it feels like it's borrowed from comedy-action TV of the day: Think <b>THE A-TEAM’s</b> need to drug B.A. Baracus into a coma every time they have to take a plane somewhere (because Mr. T pities the fool who’s gonna try to make him get over his fear of flying! … also, this movie suggests we take seriously the notion that trained CIA assassins assassinate people with rifles that shoot not bullets, but … wait for it … knives!?!?)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the context of this film, it’s a narrative strategy that just encourages me (almost *requires* me) to take nothing in the run time seriously. It cheapens the genuine (and genuinely disturbing) pathos that exists in other sections of the movie—undercuts whatever fascist-righteous revenge-anger themes driving the Hammer of the books—drains the mucked-up moral swampland that Spillane’s character finds himself trudging ever through. Instead of a somber and brutal rumination on the death of his longtime friend, we get scenes of Hammer flushing fish down a toilet. I mean, really?</span></span><br />
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CIA-PROGRAMMED SEX KILLER IN QUESTION:</b> And it's not like the film
doesn't exhibit atmosphere. Or genuinely affecting style. Here it's on
display during the sex maniac's (Judson Scott's) murder of "the twins"
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;"><b>[AND THEN THERE’S THE ACTION]</b></span></span></span><br />Another baffling assertion from Collins and co-author: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“… <b>I, THE JURY</b> is among the stronger action films of the period. With better distribution, the film might have made of Armand Assante an action star of the magnitude of Charles Bronson or Sylvester Stallone.” </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I mean, this statement betrays either a complete lack of familiarity with the action-movie zeitgeist of the 70s and 80s, or a complete misunderstanding of them. To suggest that <b>I, THE JURY’s</b> action set-pieces come anywhere near—in frequency, intensity, technical skill—to those you’d find in <b>COBRA</b> or <b>THE MECHANIC</b> or <b>TELEFON</b> or <b>FIRST BLOOD</b> is, on its face, so far from being true that it almost doesn’t require comment. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />More than anything, the action set-pieces feel like outtakes from the TV “action” show I mentioned above: <b>THE A-TEAM</b>. In their limited-budget-showing-through-at-the-seams execution. In their insistence on TV-style hijinks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">I’m thinking esp. of a chase sequence that finds Hammer starting a non-running Jeep with bottles of liquor and being chased by CIA assassins. At one point, Hammer and co. veer off into a campground while trying to throw off their pursuers. We watch as the careening Jeep interrupts a volleyball game</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—interrupts lovers naked in their sleeping bag</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—interrupts a camper's lazy afternoon rest as the legs of his deck are literally knocked out from under him. All it's missing is a few comedy-music cues.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">(Again, low budgets don’t disqualify anything per se—you can’t love Italian genre films as much as I do without also loving what can be done, the effects that can be achieved, with nonexistent budgets. But here the limitation really does feel like it’s limiting. I.e., the filmmakers don’t manage interesting solutions to make the most of what they have to work with. Everything about the execution feels too familiar, and too small.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />That’s not to say there aren’t a couple truly gonzo stunts in the film. And it’s in these too-rare instances that I find myself agreeing with Collins. The best is a sequence that finds Hammer being tortured, guerrilla-style, by the men running the sex-killer program. This footage alternates with the sex killer himself accosting and preparing to murder Hammer’s partner Velda. Mike affects his escape (maybe a little too conveniently), and manages to “bust down the door” of the sex-killer’s lair just before Velda meets her end. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />This leads to the two men leaping through upper-story windows, and a frantic chase through congested NYC streets. Hammer hops on the back of a moving RV so he can jump off an overpass and into the mattress-filled bed of the truck the sex killer has commandeered. Once in the back of the truck he doesn’t hesitate—doesn’t try to climb into the cab and subdue the killer at the wheel: He takes aim, blasting the man through the back as he drives the truck. He doesn’t care that killing him could cause his own death in the ensuing wreck. He truly is (and convincingly) giving us Hammer's berserker best. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Which does feel like a faithful translation of Spillane’s aesthetic onscreen—it works from an action set-piece p.o.v., sufficiently supports its dramatic (and exploitation) weight. And says more (in less screen time) about Spillane’s true conception of Hammer as a character than almost anything else in the movie:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #990000;">[BUT EVEN WHEN WE GET TO THE END, WE NEVER QUITE “GET THERE”]</span></b></span></span><br />It’s a film I was rooting for, from the start (from even before—the anticipation leading up to the DVD only made me want it to be a Mike Hammer holy grail all the more). Having watched it three times, though, I can’t shake the feeling that it never quite “gets there” as a film. And, for me, the greatest example of it “not getting there” is the end. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />Much is made, in Collins’ assessment, of the ending being the first that is “remarkably faithful” to infamous source. And it is, in the sense that we get a truncated version of Dr. Charlotte Manning’s sexual atom bomb that ends that book. There she strips</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—</span></span>her strip described in detail that feels surprisingly explicit for 1947</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—until she stands before Hammer completely nude. He delivers a monologue (meant both for her and the reader) that finally pieces together the entire mystery, and finally reveals the true identity of the mastermind killer: </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">This woman who's been his love interest (not just his love interest; they talked marriage) for most of the novel</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—Charlotte herself. </span></span></span></span>And she's banking on her strip (and the deep emotional attachment between the two) to be enough to distract Hammer as she furtively reaches for a gun. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br />The problem here, as with most of the film, is in the execution: What feels carefully paced, deliberately unspooled in the book (it occupies an entire chapter) is here truncated into about 2.5 minutes of screen time. It's true we get the iconic last line that is such a gut-punch in the original, and a comparable level of the sexualized violence Spillane conjured there (Barbara Carrera as Charlotte does a partial strip), but it all feels a little too much like the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Cliff's Notes version.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Just to give you an idea, I've transcribed a small fraction of this scene from the book (I've elided much, focusing on just three of the paragraphs that describe Charlotte's strip + the last three lines of the book; keep in mind that the scene from start to finish occupies nearly 11 pages). In the text, Hammer's monologue </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">alternates on the page with parenthetical italicized interior text that painstakingly charts Charlotte's strip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">And, important for our comparison, the last line is such a gut-punch </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">in the book </span></span>for two reasons: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">1. because of the mastery that Spillane shows in building to this sudden exclamation point of violence, and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">2. because of the way he's spent the book developing the genuine emotional attachment between Charlotte and Mike. Another casualty of the adaptation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">In the movie, you could never picture, not even for a second, a genuine connection between the two. At no point is it remotely possible that they would discuss and plan marriage (as they do in the book). Immediately after their extended softcore scene in the movie, Mike is already sneering at Charlotte’s virtue; add that her role as villain is revealed in the first third of the film—instead of the final pages of the book—and the film’s ending feels all the more more “lesser” than (also unfaithful to) the book's:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">"<i>(She was standing in front of me now. I felt a hot glow go over me as I saw what she was about to do. Her hands came up along her sides pressing her clothes tightly against her skin, then slowly ran under her breasts, cupping them. Her fingers fumbled with the buttons of the blouse, but not for long. They came open</i></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">—one by one.)</span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>(Now there were no more buttons. Slowly, ever so slowly, she pulled the blouse out of her skirt. It rustled faintly as silk does against wool. Then the cuff snaps</i><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>—and she shrugged the blouse from her shoulders and let it fall to the floor. She wore no bra. Lovely shoulders. Soft curves of hidden muscles running across her body. Little ripples of excitement traversing the beautiful line of her neck. Breasts that were firm and inviting. Soft, yet so strong. She was so pretty. Young and delicious and exciting. She shook her head until her hair swirled in blonde shimmering waves down her back.)<br /><br />...<br /><br />(Her thumbs hooked in the fragile silk of the panties and pulled them down. She stepped out of them as delicately as one coming form a bathtub. She was completely naked now. A suntanned goddess giving herself to her lover. With arms outstretched she walked toward me. Lightly, her tongue ran over her lips, making them glisten with passion. The smell of her was like an exhilarating perfume. Slowly, a sigh escaped her, making the hemispheres of her breasts quiver. She leaned forward to kiss me, her arms going out to encircle my neck.)</i><br /><br />...<br /><br />'How c-could you?' she gasped.<br /><br />I only had a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in.<br /><br />'It was easy,' I said."</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">“It was easy.” Unfortunately, being convinced by this film's version of Mike Hammer just isn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: normal;">May, 2015</span></span></div>
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