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Apr 14, 2024 - 1:04 AM
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Tall Guy
(Member)
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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (Filippo Walter Ratti, 1977)
Another of those films where disparate characters are thrown together in a mansion/castle/villa, each with their own aims and motives, and the mystery is how anyone thought they’d make money from it. That said, this version was quite engaging. Aged baron, beautiful but dead young wife, mute taxidermist son, decadent and in some cases crooked houseguests, dodgy staff and a limping, overweight but very smart police inspector. Tick!
Piero Piccioni is credited for the score but I think some of it was pre-existing and I’m not sure I didn’t detect some Morricone in it.
One of the best things about the film was the Lamborghini Espada belonging to one of the guests. I’d never fit in it, mind you. Another car (BMW) suffered from that old trope of bursting into flames as soon as the front wheels left the cliff top.
Funky music - no, downbeat main and end titles, verging on turgid
Twist ending - yes
Witness of murder - no
Striptease - not
Killer’s POV - no
Man slaps woman - no
Overloud or inappropriate music - lounge porn film music during a torrid sex scene, to me inappropriate to the film
Outrageous title - yes, slightly more so than the original Italian title Morbid Desires of a Governess.
J&B bottle - yes, but not prominently
Naked woman - yes
Death by stabbing - yes, repeatedly
Red herring - yes, even called one in the film
Black-gloved killer - no
Goofy police inspector - no, quite the opposite
Important picture - no
Woman takes bath or shower - no
Blackmail - no
Gay/lesbian character - a little girl-on-girl but during a game of charades. Still counts though.
Important memory - yes; in fact so important it was in black & white
Random scene in Italian - no
Ooh ooh music - no
Death by razor - no, all stabby
Childhood trauma - yes
Killer’s footsteps - yes, part of the strategy to throw you off the scent
Better than I expected in its execution, 11 gb points
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My newest driving ambition in life is to raise enough money to
make an American film called “Morbid Desires of a Governess”.
It’s got “winner” written all over it.
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My newest driving ambition in life is to raise enough money to
make an American film called “Morbid Desires of a Governess”.
It’s got “winner” written all over it.
If its getting made it must be a reboot.
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