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La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte
Death Walks at Midnight
La Muerte Acaricia a Medianoche / Cry Out in Terror / Death Caresses at Midnight
Italy/Spain 1972
produced by
Luciano Ercoli, Alberto Pugliese for Cinecompany, C.B. Films
directed by Luciano Ercoli
starring Susan Scott (= Nieves Navarro), Simon Andreu, Peter Martell (= Pietro Martellanza), Carlo Gentilli, Claudie Lange, Carlo Gentili, Ivano Staccioli, Fabrizio Moresco, Claudio Pellegrini, Luciano Rossi, Raúl Aparici, Alessandro Perrella, Elio Veller, Giuliana Rivera, Anna Recchimuzzi, Manuel Muniz, Guido Spadea, Franco Moraldi
story by Sergio Corbucci, screenplay by Ernesto Gastaldi, Mahnahén Velasco, dialogue by Guido Leoni, music by Gianni Ferrio
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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As a publicity stunt set up by her reporter boyfriend Gio (Simón Andreu), model
Valentina (Susan Scott) agrees to take a new hallucinogenic drug - under the
influence of which though, she sees a gruesome murder taking place,
a girl having her face smashed in by a man with a spiked iron glove. Of
course she reports this to the police but as there is a) no victim,
& b) she was on drugs while witnessing this, noone believes her,
neither police inspector Serino (Carlo Gentili) nor Gio nor her other boyfriend
Stefano (Peter Martell) - but all the same, she runs into the killer (Claudio
Pellegrini) eventually, and soon finds out he's after her ... and thus, she starts investigating on her own, but
the more clues she finds the deeper she gets sucked into the mystery,
and the more convoluted the mystery gets, the more corpses pile up
(though they all seem to disappear once the police arrives). And the
more corpses pile up, the more is Valentina convinced she'll be next ...
Even for a giallo, the script is very convoluted & not always
high on logic, but it's directed with great panache & genuine suspense
(2 key ingredients for giallos, as opposed to 100% logical scripts), its
murder scenes are properly gruesome (which the spiked glove being a stroke of
genius all by itself). Plus, a cast of genre regulars makes at least a genre fan
feel right at home here. In all, maybe no masterpiece, but at
least if you like giallo in general, you will find this very enjoyable, and if
you have no idea what a giallo even is ... you'll probably still find something
to enjoy!
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