Lo Strano Vizio della Signora Wardh (1971)
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Duration: 98 minuten / 81 minuten (VS)
Alternative titles: Next! / Blade of the Ripper / The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
Country:
Italy / Spain / Austria
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Stars: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton and Alberto de Mendoza
IMDb score:
6,9 (6.471)
Releasedate: 15 January 1971
Lo Strano Vizio della Signora Wardh plot
"Always unheard… unseen… until he reached out to touch and caress!"
There are a number of murders committed in Vienna. The wife of the American ambassador gets the feeling that the killer is after her. As if that wasn't bad enough, she suspects her husband, her ex-lover and her current lover.
Actors and actresses
Julie Wardh
George Corro
Jean
Carol Brandt
Dr. Arbe
Commissioner
Neil Wardh
The Killer
Inspector
Victim Who Escapes from the Killer
Reviews & comments
wibro
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- 11590 messages
- 4098 votes
Not a bad gallo that started well but ended disappointingly. The horror atmosphere was nevertheless fine, although the shower scenes were more or less a copy of the famous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho, with the difference that these poor ladies were completely naked. I have to say that Julie (Edwige Fenech) looked quite attractive, not only naked but especially in that sexy mini dress. The successful music also contributed to the 70s atmosphere with those horrible men's hairstyles but the oh-so-beautiful sexy women's clothing. But as I mentioned at the beginning, the film fizzled quite a bit towards the end. I found the plot twists very far-fetched and the ending was also very predictable. Shame! There really could have been more people there.
3.5*
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Woland
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- 4899 messages
- 3925 votes
Don't know. Giallos are not really my kind of films, as it turns out. Visually beautiful, that's for sure, but here too the sore points arise again. Mrs. Wardh is an ambassador's wife with a complicated private life (a husband, a new lover, an ex-lover), which fits well with the typical confusing, overcomplicated plot full of twists that emerges from many giallo. And again we have a mysterious murderer, leather gloves and all, who (this time with a razor) kills many a young lady. And whose identity we discover through twist after twist after twist. As already said, visually it is strong, with a lot of female nudity here, it also has something in terms of atmosphere, but for me it remains a lot of style over substance with another lick-me-vest plot.
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Bobbejaantje
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- 2365 messages
- 2119 votes
Taking into account the year of production and the atmosphere of such films, the psychedelic undertone of the film is no surprise. It contains some surreal flashbacks and a beautiful psych score by Nora Orlandi (embraced by Q Tarantino in Kill Bill 2). Les Diaboliques has been inspiring for the storyline. Not for the first time in the giallo genre, but that doesn't spoil the fun and never as far as I'm concerned. Great work by Sergio Martino. The few giallo's I have seen from him always go for the full price.
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