Giallo a Venezia (1979)
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Duration: 91 minuten
Alternative titles: Gore in Venice / Mystery in Venice / Thriller in Venice / Giallo in Venice
Country:
Italy
Directed by: Mario Landi
Stars: Leonora Fani, Gianni Dei and Jeff Blynn
IMDb score:
5,1 (1.595)
Releasedate: 31 December 1979
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Giallo a Venezia plot
Inspector DePaul investigates a double murder in the harbor of Venice: architect Fabio has been stabbed to death with scissors, while his wife Flavia has drowned. The striking fact that Flavia was retrieved from the water by the killer after drowning intrigues DePaul. Together with his assistant Maestrin, he interrogates acquaintances of the victims, and soon discovers that Fabio was a sex addicted cocaine user. Not long after, a friend of the murdered couple, Marizia, begins to receive threatening phone calls from a former lover.
Actors and actresses
Flavia
Inspector Angelo De Pol
Fabio, Flavia's husband
Andrea Caron
Maestrin
Bruno Nielsen (as Vassili Karamesinis)
Alberto
Marzia
Surveillance Cop (uncredited)
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
wendyvortex
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- 5338 messages
- 7345 votes
Seems to start off like our everyday giallo, until we realize at the fifteen minute mark that from the fifth minute on we've entered a soft-porn complete with an extremely cool soundtrack.
Aah, after fifteen minutes the inspector goes back to investigate and the killer (this time masked by reflective sunglasses) strikes again.
Well, the kinky soft-porn/giallo thriller ratio here is about 50/50.
Now I certainly don't think the ladies in question are ugly and, partly due to the soundtrack, we can certainly call them above average in the genre.
The murder investigation mainly serves to tie some scenes together.
And then our killer!!! He works so roughly that even I (and I'm used to it) have to swallow hard every now and then.
Sleazy, filthy, kinky, cool..highly time for a nice re-release because as far as I know there are only some old VHS tapes still circulating.
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Collins
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- 7641 messages
- 4558 votes
A giallo and judging by the many explicit erotic scenes and the far-reaching gore it is perhaps one of the most pornographically tinged and shocking films in that subgenre. Watching the film is a strange experience.
Typical for the subgenre is the lack of an extensive and complicated storyline. In this film, that line is also very thin. With the sentence 'a mysterious serial killer goes on a rampage' the story is already pretty well summarized.
The scenes surrounding the storyline are filled with minutes of eroticism, with laughable police investigation and with unimaginative dialogues. And although the many nudities are easy to despise, the kills are the real highlights of the film. During the distracting talking and sex scenes, the thoughts return irresistibly to the leitmotiv after a minute or so. We want to see kills! We want to see grandiose kills! And those kills are more than worth watching. I have rarely had them rubbed in so perversely. Intense.
In an average giallo, there is always enough to enjoy in the absence of a solid story. For example, there is always the beautiful camera work and the artistic cinematography to indulge in. In this film, that form of enjoyment is not present. We have to make do with explicit sex and brutal gore. Also nice, but the typical giallo atmosphere is missing. And that is a great loss.
And so the film hobbles along in an atmosphereless way via sex scene, brutal gore and investigative dialogue to the end, which actually contains a little surprise with regard to the murderer and the murders. Still a nice intellectual distraction in a film full of mind-numbing eroticism and shocking gore. The mind also wants to be served now and then. Besides great camera work and beautiful cinematography, I missed that distracting element the most.
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Fransman
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- 3129 messages
- 2341 votes
Nice movie. Seen it a long time ago. Back then with an ugly VHS copy. Now there is even a nice blue ray available and you will be amazed. Because every movie that is set in Venice gets an extra point from me. Was in Venice myself at the time. It was still a normal city then. Although busy and expensive. I ate my most expensive pizza ever there. That hooker charged 10,000 Lire, which was 25 guilders, which was quite a lot at the time. And that beautiful terrace along the water, I sat there myself. Oh well, those were good times.
But back to the film. After the review by Theunissen, I wanted to see it again and I was not disappointed. It has a lot of pace and a lot happens, although we should not take the story too seriously. As far as I'm concerned, it is indeed a real giallo. A giallo should contain three elements: crime (of a serial killer with black gloves), sex and gore. Well, you will find that here. The sex and gore are quite explicit, even for that time. I like that, not that cautious. And then, a detective who is addicted to hard-boiled eggs, that is something different from all those drug addicts we see nowadays.
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