#The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence

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I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (Sergio Martino, 1973)

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  Barbara Marzano - Sergio Martino

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«the bodies bear traces of carnal violence»

Torso (1973), dir. Sergio Martino

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Barbara Marzano - TORSO - THE BODIES BEAR TRACES OF CARNAL VIOLENCE (1973) - Sergio Martino  

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Torso (The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence, 1973)

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Today’s listening is the HNW classic, Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence by The Rita. This CD was released by PACrec/Troniks in 2004. It is limited to 1,000 copies and is still available from the label directly.

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#Repost @tangoineden with @let.repost • • • • • • My final post for #Pride in horror is here and I've chosen a film that was not only a popular giallo but also one of the most influential proto slashers.. Although several films were made before it, it's impossible to deny its impact on the slasher genre that dominated the 1980s, particularly in America. The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence, known simply as Torso internationally, has a rather common plot. University students, with the primary focus being on a group of young women, are stalked and murdered by a ruthless masked killer. Four friends spend time at a country villa to get away from the violence but they can't hide for long. Directed by gialli maestro Sergio Martino, Torso is one of the sleaziest examples of Eurotrash. And if you're anything like a hungry raccoon rummaging through someone's garbage cans, then you know there's nothing better than a good piece of trash. Not surprisingly, like so many early 70s films, this one features a relationship between two beautiful women. However, this relationship doesn't feel forced or unnatural. Unlike many others that included same sex relationships purely for sex appeal, I've always thought this one was unique. The women have a relationship that's really no different from a heterosexual one. It's authentic and believable and feels very reflective of the liberated mindset of the time. As a matter of fact, their relationship could easily be found in a movie today. Two college students in love spend a weekend away from the city, in a futile attempt to have a good time and escape all of the madness surrounding them. Is it time for a Torso reboot? If so, they better give me credit for the idea 😆 Torso didn't try to reinvent the wheel but it does have its merits. As far as exploitation flicks go, it's right up there with the best of the worst. Having said that, it did have one of the best examples of a lesbian relationship in the genre. And if anyone wants to make that reboot, call me 'cause I got an idea... Thanks for joining my horror sisters and me for our daily posts of these awesome horror movies and remember to celebrate Pride all year long! #horrorsis https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZYs8IpjLO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Torso screencaps!!

Torso (Italian: I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale, lit. 'The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence') is an Italian giallo film directed by Sergio Martino. The film was released in 4th January 1973.

Plot (it may contain spoilers)

The murder of two college students (and one's boyfriend) leads to a manhunt for the killer, whose chief weapon is a red and black ascot used to strangle his victims. When a young college student discovers that she recognizes the murder weapon, she becomes a target of the killer and agrees with one of her friends, who is friends with their art history teacher, to stay at a local villa located on a nearby cliff.

However, the isolated cliffside villa offers no protection from the killer, who runs over the street vendor who he buys his scarves from and who tried to blackmail him for his silence. At the same time, a young college student who is obsessed with one of the four girls and has been actively stalking her (and wearing a similar red and black scarf) and one of the locals in town, go up to the villa to spy on the girls only to be ruthlessly killed. The young student who invited her friend to the villa breaks her ankle and a doctor gives her a sedative; as such, she is asleep when the killer makes his way into the house and kills the girls, including the one who can identify him. She wakes up in time to watch him dismember the bodies but hides to avoid detection. However, the killer locks the house, trapping her inside while he prepares to dispose of the body. When he realizes that the last girl is alive, he baits her into coming out of the room she is hiding in and reveals himself to her.

The killer is the art history teacher that the final girl had befriended. He is revealed to be insane and anti-woman, stemming from a childhood incident where as a kid, his brother stole a young girl's doll and placed it near the edge of the cliff. He would only retrieve it if the young girl let him see her naked crotch; she reluctantly agreed but as he stood over the edge of the cliff to retrieve the doll, the young girl freaked out and screamed, causing him to lose his balance and fall to his death. This led to him to believe all women are lying whores that use men and cause them nothing but death in the process. He reveals to his female student/friend that the first two victims were students of him who seduced him into a three way and then blackmailed him with the knowledge of the affair. He then killed the rest at the villa to cover his tracks and reveals that his scarf was the opposite color scheme of the male student he killed: black on red instead of red on black. However, as he begins to kill the young woman to ensure his crime spree is never exposed, the  doctor shows up and after a struggle, kills the teacher.

Cast

Suzy Kendall - Jane

Tina Aumont - Daniela "Danni"

Luc Merenda - Roberto

John Richardson - Franz

Roberto Bisacco - Stefano Vanzi

Ernesto Colli - Gianni Tomasso, the street vendor

Angela Covello - Katia

Carla Brait - Ursula

Conchita Airoldi - Carol Peterson

Patrizia Adiutori - Florence Heineken

Luciano Bartoli - Peter

Gianni Greco - George

Luciano De Ambrosis - Inspector Martino

The film was released on 4th January 1973.

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I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (Sergio Martino, 1973)

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❥     𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐖  𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄   𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍   𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒  (accepting, limited.) // @freedomwisp​ asked: [ mark ] (if that’s something you want to write~)

&& suggestive content ahead ; REPLYABLE

Scaramouche has never known love from the divine. An ethereal thing such as himself, and he has never been loved by a god. But what he doesn’t know won’t kill him. And besides, this- Venti’s teeth carving out indents into his neck, his nails biting into his thighs- this is not love. This is violence, wrapped like silk around a sword, it looks pretty, but it still wounds the same.

Go on. The puppet had said. Do your worst.

He’s not really sure what he had expected, but somehow it’s everything at once. It’s carnal, the way Venti touches him. Vicious, the way he holds him. It must be divine retribution because it starts with feather-light touches tracing heated paths along his skin- and slowly he realizes the delicate precision in which he is being dismantled. It’s the way one touches glass- fearful of shattering something so beautiful and fragile. Soft, to some. But to him, it’s not anything else but a reminder of how hollow he is. A vessel for nothing. A void. A shell. A puppet.

Nothing will ever fill that emptiness in his soul.

But Venti is only earning back what he’s owed. This is torture in the sweetest way and somehow that makes it burn more. Scaramouche arches into his touches, a blank canvas eager to be painted upon. Like a garden, marks blossom upon his fair skin, each bearing a name for what he feels. 

Beautiful. Acknowledged. Righteous. Coveted. Worshipped.

Divine.

Somewhere, buried in his muddied thoughts and unbidden moans, it occurs to Scaramouche that he should stop this. That he has the power to wrest control of the situation. That he cannot, and will not, be claimed by a god. That he is more than they could ever imagine- holier than thou and all beneath him. He knows it’ll hurt more when it’s over so why not spare himself the misery now?

But with each kiss, that thought slips further and further away, body shaking with want and desire.

How easily he crumbles when finally given what he deserves.

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Horror Movie Review: Torso (1973)

If there is one thing Torso wants to be more than anything, it is sexy art.

Torso aka The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence is an Italian giallo film directed by Sergio Martino from 1973. A lazy slasher with not much suspense, a ton of nudity and a disjointed story. If there is one thing Torso wants to be more than anything, it is sexy art. It spends more time focusing on the naked bodies of its female cast. Almost always portrayed with items obscuring the lower…

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TORSO/THE BODIES BEAR TRACES OF CARNAL VIOLENCE (1973)

“The Italian title tells you what you need to know. Truth in advertising. I mean this is a good one - well above average. Foxy coeds in Perugia stalked and strangled by a dude in an ugly scarf. Literally every man in this is a leering creep, which I think is just ‘Italian’. There’s a gang of dudes in this one town and the only thing they talk about is fucking the coeds. Whether it’s noon or 3 AM, the conversation just keeps going. The girls are free with their nakedness like Eve in the garden of Eden aside from the final girl, who used to be married to Dudley Moore. So I guess she’s sort of more of a star? Anyway Sergio Martino tends to make these better than other Giallo-Director creeps and this is no exception. Def makes me want to go to Perugia. But not to get murdered.” -Tommy Gazelle

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Torso - Italy, 1973 - overview and reviews

Torso – Italy, 1973 – overview and reviews

‘Enter… if you dare the bizarre world of the psychosexual mind.’

Torso – original title: I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale “The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence” – is a 1973 Italian giallo thriller feature film directed by Sergio Martino (The Mountain of the Cannibal God; All the Colours of the Dark; Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key; et al) from a screenplay…