Black Belly of the Tarantula / La tarantola dal ventre nero (1971)

October 19, 2024 9:28 AM

[Trailer] An Italian detective (Giancarlo Giannini) hunts a health-spa killer who uses a knife dipped in venom. -- Rotten Tomatoes

Not enough critical ratings to get a tomatometer / 53% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

posted by johnofjack (2 comments total)

Currently streaming (in the U.S, at least) on Shudder.

I first heard about this one reading the poorly-translated Spaghetti Nightmares which, IIRC, dismissed it as "pretentions," but I thought it was a solid entry in the giallo subgenre, interesting and effective.
posted by johnofjack at 9:33 AM on October 19, 2024

I think I agree... I remember liking this one, though not much else of it stuck around. I don't remember anything unusually pretentious about it, compared to all the other gialli I'd seen!
posted by fleacircus at 1:30 AM on October 20, 2024 [1 favorite]