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A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.
Raul Lovecchio
- Ispettore Edwards
- (as Raoul)
Stefania Fassio
- Prima vittima
- (as Steffy Steffen)
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- GoofsWhen the killer is whipping the woman in the bathtub, he turns away to get the sheet to smother her. It would be an opportunity for her to at least try to get out of the tub, but she just lies there, flailing around. instead.
- Quotes
Herbert Lyutak: Enough, Herbert! You are a hyena, hyena!
- Alternate versionsThe American Blue Underground DVD offers two distinctly different versions of the film. The full-length Italian version runs 102 minutes. The shorter American version runs 85 minutes. It begins and ends with scenes set in Vietnam with Mickey Hargitay as a wounded soldier and Rita Calderoni as a helicopter nurse. This version also features an extra killing and a different denouement.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Theorem of Delirium (2002)
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Italian Giallo Thriller with Mickey HARGITAY
Hot delirium from Italy
What a psychedelic sex nightmare! Only the Italian film industry from the Cinecitta of the 1970s offers something like this.
After his deployment in the Vietnam War, Herbert Lyntak (Mickey HARGITAY) returns to work as a psychiatrist. He often advises Inspector Edwards (Raoul LOVECCHIO) in finding the perpetrators of his murder cases. What no one knows except Marzia Lyntak (Rita CALDERONI): Lyntak suffers from post-traumatic stress, is impotent and has hallucinations. One day he seemingly murders a young girl. Or is this all just a bad dream? But the girl is actually dead. More murders occur, but Lyntak cannot be responsible for them. A strange game of cat and mouse begins...
In the revealing seventies, the psychedelic dreams of Italian cinema could show many a naked female body. Mickey HARGITAY (1926-2006), Hungarian muscle man, Hercules actor and husband of Hollywood diva Jayne MANSFIELD (1932-1967), really turns it up here. Whether tied to a dog chain or denigrating his reflection as a hyena: HARGITAY delivers the performance of his life. It's not all very believable, but it's definitely entertaining.
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO serves the version with the Vietnam scenes (there are probably different cut models of the film) and there are also more than enough sexualized scenes, so the original version is probably available here. The German dub is even stupider than usual, but that perhaps increases the giallo trash factor.
What a psychedelic sex nightmare! Only the Italian film industry from the Cinecitta of the 1970s offers something like this.
After his deployment in the Vietnam War, Herbert Lyntak (Mickey HARGITAY) returns to work as a psychiatrist. He often advises Inspector Edwards (Raoul LOVECCHIO) in finding the perpetrators of his murder cases. What no one knows except Marzia Lyntak (Rita CALDERONI): Lyntak suffers from post-traumatic stress, is impotent and has hallucinations. One day he seemingly murders a young girl. Or is this all just a bad dream? But the girl is actually dead. More murders occur, but Lyntak cannot be responsible for them. A strange game of cat and mouse begins...
In the revealing seventies, the psychedelic dreams of Italian cinema could show many a naked female body. Mickey HARGITAY (1926-2006), Hungarian muscle man, Hercules actor and husband of Hollywood diva Jayne MANSFIELD (1932-1967), really turns it up here. Whether tied to a dog chain or denigrating his reflection as a hyena: HARGITAY delivers the performance of his life. It's not all very believable, but it's definitely entertaining.
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO serves the version with the Vietnam scenes (there are probably different cut models of the film) and there are also more than enough sexualized scenes, so the original version is probably available here. The German dub is even stupider than usual, but that perhaps increases the giallo trash factor.
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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