(aka: THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS)
*Spoiler attached*
A series of women are murdered in a 20 story high-rise apartment building.
Starts off with a young woman stabbed to death in an elevator for no apparent reason. (not a bad blood scene, btw) When the elevator gets to the top floor and some other passengers get on, they don't seem too upset at the sight they see of the dead woman lying on the floor. Unreal...
Then a black woman is then murdered (in the same apt. building) in her own bathtub, by drowning. The aftereffects of seeing her blank stare underwater look pretty cool.
I like the pop-art deco of the bar-casino where the black model wrestles customers for three minutes at a time. Real wild looking with funny globes on the wall and cylinders hanging from the ceiling. Talk about 1972... Nice touch.
Then George Hilton's girlfriend Jennifer, moves into the same apartment and the main characters of the film get involved. Of course Hilton's girlfriend's ex-husband, a leader of a free-love cult, is stalking her as well in order to confuse the audience even more.
We also find out that George can't stand the sight of blood. Yeah, right...
Then Jennifer's roommate is stabbed on a crowded public street with Hilton standing nearby look disinterested. More unreal... The crowd now gathers around after the fact, blaming George who then runs away when the detective who is tailing him, starts to run after him.
We also find out about the horribly scarred son of the woman who lives next -door. He too, becomes a suspect. Not a bad make-up job. Then the lesbian named Sheila, who down the hall with her professor father, is also murdered in the basement steam room. She is scalded to death in a cool scene.
**The question is; why did the professor kill his own daughter? If he was so obsessed at protecting her, then why harm her. Yeah we know he's mad, but it seemed tacked on for some ridiculous reasons known only to the director, Giuliano Carnimeo.**
Nice cool scene of the professor's body falling down empty space between the staircases. Bang...bang...plop...thunk...
The Anchor Bay DVD is up to it's usual high standards although there is some film damage due to what looks like a restored scene of Jennifer walking outside the high rise and seeing a crimpled up orchid lying on the ground.
6 out of 10 for keeping me somewhat entertained. It's not bad. Not bad at all.
*Spoiler attached*
A series of women are murdered in a 20 story high-rise apartment building.
Starts off with a young woman stabbed to death in an elevator for no apparent reason. (not a bad blood scene, btw) When the elevator gets to the top floor and some other passengers get on, they don't seem too upset at the sight they see of the dead woman lying on the floor. Unreal...
Then a black woman is then murdered (in the same apt. building) in her own bathtub, by drowning. The aftereffects of seeing her blank stare underwater look pretty cool.
I like the pop-art deco of the bar-casino where the black model wrestles customers for three minutes at a time. Real wild looking with funny globes on the wall and cylinders hanging from the ceiling. Talk about 1972... Nice touch.
Then George Hilton's girlfriend Jennifer, moves into the same apartment and the main characters of the film get involved. Of course Hilton's girlfriend's ex-husband, a leader of a free-love cult, is stalking her as well in order to confuse the audience even more.
We also find out that George can't stand the sight of blood. Yeah, right...
Then Jennifer's roommate is stabbed on a crowded public street with Hilton standing nearby look disinterested. More unreal... The crowd now gathers around after the fact, blaming George who then runs away when the detective who is tailing him, starts to run after him.
We also find out about the horribly scarred son of the woman who lives next -door. He too, becomes a suspect. Not a bad make-up job. Then the lesbian named Sheila, who down the hall with her professor father, is also murdered in the basement steam room. She is scalded to death in a cool scene.
**The question is; why did the professor kill his own daughter? If he was so obsessed at protecting her, then why harm her. Yeah we know he's mad, but it seemed tacked on for some ridiculous reasons known only to the director, Giuliano Carnimeo.**
Nice cool scene of the professor's body falling down empty space between the staircases. Bang...bang...plop...thunk...
The Anchor Bay DVD is up to it's usual high standards although there is some film damage due to what looks like a restored scene of Jennifer walking outside the high rise and seeing a crimpled up orchid lying on the ground.
6 out of 10 for keeping me somewhat entertained. It's not bad. Not bad at all.