A young nude-model is stabbed to death with a pair of scissors, the third in a series of victims who had all had their photos taken by Parisi, a potentially mentally unhinged individual who claims that his camera can photograph people's thoughts.
Director and writer Helia Colombo made one giallo and here it is, rarely seen outside of Italy until today. It really has the best title - The Police Are Blundering In the Dark - because if you think about it, the police never do a great job in these films.
Now, reporter Giorgio D'Amato meets his friend Enrichetta at the photographer's villa, but when he arrives, he learns that she's the model we watched die at the beginning of the movie.
She'd been begged by Parisi - who is in a wheelchair and looks quite frail - to come to speak to him about his magical camera. And just like Clue - you know, but with plenty of graphic murder and no short supply of nudity - we meet the suspects, ranging from Alberto the butler to the photographer's lesbian wife Eleonora, his niece Sara and the sexed-up maid Lucia, who is the next to be killed.
I have no idea why that camera figures in, but maybe the filmmakers thought that Four Flies On Grey Velvet was going to force everyone to have science fiction photography as part of their plot, so they ripped it off. There's also little police involvement, but it's not like there's an actual rule that giallo titles have to make sense. I prefer when they don't.
Director and writer Helia Colombo made one giallo and here it is, rarely seen outside of Italy until today. It really has the best title - The Police Are Blundering In the Dark - because if you think about it, the police never do a great job in these films.
Now, reporter Giorgio D'Amato meets his friend Enrichetta at the photographer's villa, but when he arrives, he learns that she's the model we watched die at the beginning of the movie.
She'd been begged by Parisi - who is in a wheelchair and looks quite frail - to come to speak to him about his magical camera. And just like Clue - you know, but with plenty of graphic murder and no short supply of nudity - we meet the suspects, ranging from Alberto the butler to the photographer's lesbian wife Eleonora, his niece Sara and the sexed-up maid Lucia, who is the next to be killed.
I have no idea why that camera figures in, but maybe the filmmakers thought that Four Flies On Grey Velvet was going to force everyone to have science fiction photography as part of their plot, so they ripped it off. There's also little police involvement, but it's not like there's an actual rule that giallo titles have to make sense. I prefer when they don't.