In the streets of Rome, a serial killer is using a set square to murder women, including a teacher named Grazia Scanetti inside her apartment. Policewoman Rita Facino (Mirca Viola, Miss Italia 1987 and the winner of the Miss Hair Look, Miss Computer and Miss Platea awards) is on the case, but there are many red herrings, as you can imagine. When Rita tries to explain that no one knows who the killer is, Visconti (Antonio Petrocelli), the district attorney, doesn't listen to her.
There's also a painter in the same building as the killer, Mirta Valenti (Florinda Bolkan, who is the reason I watched this) who is inspired by the murders and starts painting dead women with set squares stabbed into their necks. She also hires a sex worker named Donatella (Elisabetta Rocchetti) to kill her, claiming that she has cancer, but in truth she's killing her hated housekeeper Laura.
Then there's singer named Nicole Cardente (Eva Robins from Tenebre) who works with her manager and girlfriend Otilla (Elisabetta Cavallotti) to pretend to get death threats from the killer and then kills Otilia when she starts an affair with a man named Premio (Guido Berti) and makes it looks like the work of the killer, framing Premio, who is shot by the police who as always are blundering in the dark.
So we know who killed victim two and three, but who killed the teacher? And what does Franco Nero playing an unhoused man have to do with any of this?
This movie was directed by Pierfrancesco Campanella, who wrote the story with Gianluca Curti and Enzo Gallo. Salvatore Ferraro , who was on trial after he was accused of aiding in the murder of a student named Marta Russo, was a technical consultant, which got this movie some negative press. But any publicity, you know...
This was an attempt to make a movie that looked to the thirty-year-past world of giallo. In no way is it anywhere close to even the lowest level 70s giallo, but it does have some nice gore effects. It's not as bad as some reviews will say, but I think you need to be obsessed with the genre to enjoy this.
There's also a painter in the same building as the killer, Mirta Valenti (Florinda Bolkan, who is the reason I watched this) who is inspired by the murders and starts painting dead women with set squares stabbed into their necks. She also hires a sex worker named Donatella (Elisabetta Rocchetti) to kill her, claiming that she has cancer, but in truth she's killing her hated housekeeper Laura.
Then there's singer named Nicole Cardente (Eva Robins from Tenebre) who works with her manager and girlfriend Otilla (Elisabetta Cavallotti) to pretend to get death threats from the killer and then kills Otilia when she starts an affair with a man named Premio (Guido Berti) and makes it looks like the work of the killer, framing Premio, who is shot by the police who as always are blundering in the dark.
So we know who killed victim two and three, but who killed the teacher? And what does Franco Nero playing an unhoused man have to do with any of this?
This movie was directed by Pierfrancesco Campanella, who wrote the story with Gianluca Curti and Enzo Gallo. Salvatore Ferraro , who was on trial after he was accused of aiding in the murder of a student named Marta Russo, was a technical consultant, which got this movie some negative press. But any publicity, you know...
This was an attempt to make a movie that looked to the thirty-year-past world of giallo. In no way is it anywhere close to even the lowest level 70s giallo, but it does have some nice gore effects. It's not as bad as some reviews will say, but I think you need to be obsessed with the genre to enjoy this.