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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)

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La notte dei dannati (1971) - Italian poster

AKA Night of the Damned; Night of the Sexual Demons

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Crazy Desires of a Murderer

If one of the standard giallo tropes is a red herring, does that make the film orange? Filippo Walter Ratti’s CRAZY DESIRES OF A MURDERER (1977, Shudder) ultimately seems less giallo than a blood-soaked, oversexed Agatha Christie murder mystery, though Dame Agatha would never have indulged in such a sloppy, meandering plot line. Against her aged father’s wishes, heiress Ileana (Isabella Marchall) invites a group of friends she made traveling round the world back to her family’s palatial manor. After a night of bad dancing, erotic charades and bed-hopping, one of the women is murdered, her jewelry stolen and her eyes removed. Disgrazia! Meanwhile, one of Marchall’s friends has stuck a shipment of cocaine among her souvenirs. When it goes missing, he has to face off with the crooks he’s been working with. What that has to do with the rest of the plot is anybody’s guess, but at least that subplot gets tied up. One of the men roofies Marchall and has his way with her, a crime promptly forgotten by all and sundry. The film’s only plus is the presence of character actor Corrado Gaipa, as the police inspector on the case. He’s got a tremendous presence and delivers some great melodramatic line readings as he ferrets out most of the guests’ secrets. In a good film, he’d find the killer through brilliant detective work. But since this isn’t a good film, he doesn’t. Even the title is a fake. There’s nothing crazy about the killer’s motivation, but I suppose RUN OF THE MILL DESIRES OF A MURDERER wouldn’t sell a lot of popcorn.

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I vizi morbosi di una governante / Crazy Desires of a Murderer (Filippo Walter Ratti, 1977)

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i vizi morbosi di una governante / crazy desires of a murderer (it, ratti 77)

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ERIKA THE PERFORMER (1971) - SIN & SUN ON THE BEACH POSTERS (Part 4/10)

A magnificent painting by Renato Casaro for the original release of the 1965 Italian erotic drama, Erika starring blonde bombshell, Patrizia Viotti, exposing her curves on the beach.

Director: Filippo Walter Ratti Actors: Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti

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Questa Notte su Rete4 alle Ore 03,40 ...

Un Rarissimo Spy/Movie per la Prima volta in una Tv Nazionale...

A.D3 operazione squalo bianco

Also Known As (AKA)

(original title) A.D.3 operazione squalo bianco

Brazil Operação Chantagem Atômica

France A.D.3 opération: Requin blanc

Greece (transliterated) Epiheirisis - Aspros karharias

USA Operation White Shark

West Germany Computer für Mord

Release Dates

Italia 1966

France 15 December 1966

Regia: Filippo Walter Ratti

Musica: Robby Poitevin

Sceneggiatura: Luigi Angelo dal soggetto di Luigi Angelo, Italo Fasan, Filippo Walter Ratti

Effetti speciali: Agostino Possanza

Interpreti: Rodd Dana Franca Polesello Jeanine Reynaud Francesco Mulè Alan Banthe, Lucia Modugno Nino Vingelli, Julian Rafferty, Louis Moore, Robert Kurt, Fernand Angels, Fred Tyler, Gianni Manera Aldo Sala, Tullio Altamura, Mary Anthony, Silvano Silvani, Nino Nini, Vittorino Mangano, Romolo Diori, Giana Matarazzo, Elio Bonadonna, Pietro Ruffini

Trama

Da un inaccessibile laboratorio situato in una grotta sul fondo dell'oceano, l'organizzazione criminale "Terzo Occhio" ordisce un ricatto contro le grandi potenze minacciando di colpirle con l'arma atomica recentemente inventata dal professor Von Kraft. L'affascinante spia Terry Benson, che è riuscita a creare un contatto con i terroristi, affianca Mark Andrews, agente segreto AD3, nel tentativo di sventare il complotto nel quale è coinvolta anche una banda rivale dell'organizzazione.

Divagazione povera sul filone del fantaspionaggio con un protagonista (Rodd Dana) che si sforza di emulare James Bond e che viene descritto come un super-agente poliglotta, studioso di scienza nucleare, irresistibile seduttore e (cosa che gli riesce meglio di tutte) nuotatore subacqueo senza rivali. Più interessanti sono al solito gli antagonisti, incarnati, in questo caso, da splendide ragazze sessualmente disinibite e campionesse di arti marziali.

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Blu-ray Review: Forgotten Gialli: Volume 3

Vinegar Syndrome launched its first Forgotten Gialli Blu-ray box set less than a year ago, but the powerhouse distributor is already on the third volume of obscure giallo (European murder-mystery) films. The latest installment features 1972's Murder Mansion (also known as The Mansion in the Fog), 1975's Autopsy (also known as The Victim), and 1977's Crazy Desires of a Murderer (also known as The Morbid Vices of a Housekeeper).

Murder Mansion is a Spanish-Italian co-production that only classifies as a giallo by a rather liberal definition. It starts out slow; the first line of dialogue isn't spoken until six minutes in, after the opening title sequence and a lengthy driving scene. When the night is consumed by fog, a group of strangers from different backgrounds seek refuge in an old mansion next to an abandoned village where local legends say vampires once resided. It's not long before they suspect that ghosts have risen from the nearby graveyard.

Written by Luis G. de Blain and Antonio Troiso (Beyond the Door), the murder-mystery aspects are more Agatha Christie - or even Scooby-Doo, given the cartoonish reveal - than giallo, lacking many of the subgenre's hallmarks; but even more so director Francisco Lara Polop seems to be drawing influence from gothic horror in both approach and execution. The chilling atmosphere is palpable as soon as the fog rolls in, but the first body doesn't pop up until nearly an hour into the 86-minute film. The last act makes admirable attempts to compensate with scares and shocks.

Murder Mansion has been newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative. It includes the original Spanish language audio with newly translated English subtitles as well as the English and Italian dubs. The disc includes a 20-minute interview with actress Evelyn Stewart (The Psychic). While she admittedly doesn't remember the specifics about much of the production, she recalls working with the special effects and explains her use of a stage name. She’s noticeably pleased by the film, particularly Polop's direction.

The most well-known title among the three Forgotten Gialli sets, Autopsy opens with a montage of grisly suicides plaguing Rome, purported to be caused by sun spots. A young, female pathologist (Mimsy Farmer, Four Flies on Grey Velvet), serendipitously writing a thesis on the differences between simulated and authentic suicides, teams up with an epileptic race car driver-turned-priest (Barry Primus, Boxcar Bertha) following the alleged suicide of his sister to investigate.

Directed by Armando Crispino (The Dead Are Alive), who co-wrote the script with Lucio Battistrada, the Italian giallo is convoluted even by the subgenre's standards. It's also shockingly sleazy, from a misogynistic coroner to maddening visions of being molested by cadavers. The film is uneven in both tone and pacing and bloated at 100 minutes, but it ends on a high note with a memorable finale. On the whole, it's more unnerving than most gialli, due to the taboo buttons it pushes as well as the hints of surrealism in which Crispino indulges. A score by Ennio Morricone (The Thing, The Good the Bad and the Ugly) certainly doesn't hurt.

Autopsy has been newly restored in 2K from its 35mm original camera negative. It includes both the English and Italian (with newly translated English subtitles) mono soundtracks. It offers a variety of special features: a featurette on Crispino consisting of 38 minutes of insight from the late director's son, Francesco Crispino; a 10-minute interview with Francesco Crispino, who dissects various versions of the film and discusses his father's influences; an 11-minute interview with editor Daniele Alabiso conducted by Francesco Crispino, in which they examine the film's peculiar rhythm; an introduction by the director from a screening; alternate Italian titles and credits; and the theatrical trailer.

If only Crazy Desires of a Murderer's plot was as stimulating as its traditionally verbose giallo title. It centers around an affluent, globe-trotting countess, Ileana (Isabelle Marchall, Black Emanuelle). She returns to her familial castle with new friends she met while traveling in China, who unwittingly used her as a drug courier. Meanwhile, her traumatized half-brother is kept locked away in the basement. But those are the least of her problems once someone starts murdering the inhabitants of the castle.

Aesthetically, this one most closely resembles a traditional giallo. What the drab castle lacks in color palette, director Filippo Walter Ratti and cinematographer Gino Santini (Django the Bastard) make up for with interesting camerawork. There's also ample gore, as the killer's modus operandi involves removing the victims' eyes, and heavy doses of sleaze, although it pales in comparison to Autopsy. But writer Ambrogio Molteni (Black Emanuelle) employs an Agatha Christie-esque sleuth (Corrado Gaipa, The Godfather) to solve the mystery, and the abundance of clunky procedural scenes weigh down the film.

Crazy Desires of a Murderer has been newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative with Italian mono audio and newly translated English subtitles. The disc includes a 15-minute interview (in Italian with subtitles) with actor Giuseppe Colombo (who more notably went on to produce The Stendhal Syndrome and other Dario Argento productions). He candidly recalls frequent disagreements with Ratti and other drama that befell the production.

While the films are hit or miss, the experience of unearthing them is always a thrill. Even the packaging is great, with each film in its own individual Blu-ray case with reversible artwork, all of which are housed inside a sturdy box (limited to 6,000). Between Forgotten Gialli and the forthcoming Home Grown Horrors, I hope Vinegar Syndrome never stops spoiling us with box sets of hidden gems.

Forgotten Gialli: Volume 3 is available now on Blu-ray via Vinegar Syndrome.

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‘Crazy desires of a murderer.’ Filippo Walter Ratti, 1977. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYYAEmXr86l/?utm_medium=tumblr

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the Vinegar Syndrome February titles have been announced and are up on the VS site!

FORGOTTEN GIALLI VOL. 3: AUTOPSY (1975), MURDER MANSION (1972) & CRAZY DESIRES OF A MURDERER (1977)

THE FEAR (1995)

HITCHER IN THE DARK (1989)

SPECS AND EXTRAS:

FORGOTTEN GIALLI 3

AUTOPSY (1975)

Dir: Armando Crispino

Cast: Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Ray Lovelock, Carlo Cataneo

1975 / 100 min / 1.85:1 / English & Italian Mono

Extras:

• Region Free Blu-ray

• Newly scanned & restored in 2k from its 35mm original camera negative

• Includes both the English and Italian language soundtracks

• Archival theatrical introduction with director Armando Crispino

• “Editing & Rhythm” - an interview with editor Daniele Alabiso

• “The Autopsy Papers” - an interview with Francesco Crispino, film historian & son of director Armando Crispino

• “Black Hole Sun” - a featurette on the career of director Armando Crispino

• Original theatrical trailer

• Alternate Italian titles & credits

• Reversible cover artwork

• Newly translated English SDH subtitles

MURDER MANSION (1972)

Dir: Francisco Lara Polop

Cast: Evelyn Stewart, Analía Gadé, Lisa Leonardi, Andrés Resino, Yelena Samarina

1972 / 86 min / 1.85:1 / Spanish, English & Italian Mono

Extras:

• Region Free Blu-ray

• Newly scanned & restored in 4k from its 35mm original camera negative

• Includes the original Spanish language soundtrack with new English translations, as well as the English and Italian language dubs (Italian dub is not translated)

• “Lady of the Mansion” - an interview with actress Ida Galli aka Evelyn Stewart

• Reversible cover artwork

• Newly translated English SDH subtitles for the original Spanish soundtrack

CRAZY DESIRES OF A MURDERER (1977)

Dir: Filippo Walter Ratti

Cast: Corrado Gaipa, Roberto Zattini, Isabelle Marchall, Annie Carol Edel

1977 / 89 min / 1.85:1 / Italian Mono

Extras:

• Region Free Blu-ray

• Newly scanned & restored in 4k from its 35mm original camera negative

• “Crazy Memories of an Actor” - an interview with actor Giuseppe Colombo

• Reversible cover artwork

• Newly translated English SDH subtitles

HITCHER IN THE DARK (1989)

Dir: Umberto Lenzi

Cast: Joe Balogh, Josie Bissett, Jason Saucier

1989 / 95 min / 1.85:1 / English

Extras.

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray

• Newly scanned & restored in 4k from its 35mm original camera negative

• Commentary track with film historians and authors Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger

• Archival video interview with writer/director Umberto Lenzi

• Original theatrical trailer

• Reversible cover artwork

• English SDH subtitles

THE FEAR (1995)

Dir: Vincent Robert

Cast: Eddie Bowz, Heather Medway, Ann Turkel, Vince Edwards, Wes Craven

1995 / 102 min / 1.85:1 / English Stereo

Extras:

• Region Free Blu-ray

• Newly scanned & restored in 4k from its 35mm original camera negative

• Brand new commentary track with director Vincent Robert

• Brand new commentary track with executive producer Greg H. Sims

• “Face to Face with The Fear” - a 50 minute making-of documentary, featuring interviews with the crew and cast

• Reversible cover artwork

• English SDH subtitles

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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)

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Night of the Damned (La notte dei dannati,1971) & Something Creeping in the Dark (Qualcosa striscia nel buio, 1971) Double Feature

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I vizi morbosi di una governante / Crazy Desires of a Murderer (Filippo Walter Ratti, 1977)

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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)

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I vizi morbosi di una governante / Crazy Desires of a Murderer (Filippo Walter Ratti, 1977)