Saturday, August 17, 2024

DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER 1973 (SINISTER CINEMA)

Now this was bizarre and I'm still not sure what I saw.

This was one Italian film I just couldn't get into because it's an impossible to follow plot.

A beautiful woman named Greta (Ewa Aulin) is involved in an accident and is taken into the care of a married couple. Both the husband Walter (Sergio Doria) and his wife (Angela Bo) fall in love with the mysterious woman.

This leads to many things including the very dark past of Greta. With all the strange things going on we also have a doctor named Sturges (Klaus Kinski) who is trying to bring back the dead.

He manages to bring a corpse back to life, but is killed by someone we don't see before he can really do anything, and then it seems that this plot point is dropped.

Now, if I saw this correctly, Greta is also a walking corpse, but then again she could be a spirit inhabiting the body of a cat!!. Director Joe D'Amato messed up this film to the point where the viewer has no damned idea what hhhe is seeing.

I simply love Italian cinema, but this was one film I could have done without. The only plus is the beauty of Bo and Aulin, otherwise there really isn't too much here.

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