Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
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A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife. -IMDb
Original title: Il tuo vizio รจ una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave.
100% / 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.
That said, all the content warnings: rape, murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, animal abuse, incest....
Original title: Il tuo vizio รจ una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave.
100% / 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.
That said, all the content warnings: rape, murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, animal abuse, incest....
Sergio Martino movies are wild. This is on my list to watch as well.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:53 AM on October 22
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:53 AM on October 22
Trailer 1 and Trailer 2 (with more dirt bikes).
This one has always had the best title of any giallo IMO. Its pretty lurid for a giallo with some top tier degeneracy (making it probably not for everyone) and surprisingly based on Poe's Black Cat (I haven't read it but I suspect there are no dirt bikes in it). It would surprise me if Martino didn't have Bay of Blood in mind (it came out the year before) which, like this one, is also a precursor to the later stalker/slasher films of the final 70s / early 80s. Overall, if you like this sort of thing, it works pretty well. It benefits from the presence of Anita Strindberg and Edwige Fenech and I think the soundtrack is good.
Martino's giallo work is pretty solid overall - easier to watch than the sex comedies (but that's me).
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:56 AM on October 22 [1 favorite]
This one has always had the best title of any giallo IMO. Its pretty lurid for a giallo with some top tier degeneracy (making it probably not for everyone) and surprisingly based on Poe's Black Cat (I haven't read it but I suspect there are no dirt bikes in it). It would surprise me if Martino didn't have Bay of Blood in mind (it came out the year before) which, like this one, is also a precursor to the later stalker/slasher films of the final 70s / early 80s. Overall, if you like this sort of thing, it works pretty well. It benefits from the presence of Anita Strindberg and Edwige Fenech and I think the soundtrack is good.
Martino's giallo work is pretty solid overall - easier to watch than the sex comedies (but that's me).
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:56 AM on October 22 [1 favorite]
The most giallo-ass title imaginable.
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:36 PM on October 22 [1 favorite]
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:36 PM on October 22 [1 favorite]
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I don't know how I feel about this film. It was very well made and I enjoyed it up to a point, then it passed some threshold where I started struggling with suspension of disbelief (I think it was at the point where it started mixing in elements of another genre; saying which would be a spoiler), and I really didn't like certain plot points (to do with the content warnings above). Yet it got a good critical reception and I'm willing to believe I'm being too hard on it.
I might come to like it more in time; I do remember being unimpressed with The Shining the first time I saw it.
posted by johnofjack at 6:24 PM on October 21