If you're planning a sleazy triple feature of giallo yacht-based films, go with Interrabang, Top Sensation and this movie. Take liberal showers before, during and after all three movies and when your significant other walks in on these, you can blame me.
Waves of Lust has Ruggero Deodato at the wheel and he's working from a script by Franco Bottari (Colt 38 Special Squad) and Fabio Pittorru (The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave) from a story by Gianlorenzo Battaglia and Lamberto Bava.
We meet young and in love couple Irem (Al Cliver, Endgame) and Barbara (Silvia Dionisio, Murder Obsession) in the middle of their vacation in Sicily. An older and not-so-in-love couple named Giorgio (John Steiner, Shock) and Silvia (Elizabeth Turner, Beyond the Door) beckons them to join them on their yacht and that's when things get cooking.
Somehow, this movie becomes an anti-capitalist one, as Giorgio is an industrialist who owns nearly everything, including his wife, and lords it over anyone he can. That said, in no way will the message get in the way of what this movie is really about, and that's making a giallo that's more on the erotic side than the thriller part of the erotic thriller. Both Irem and Barbara end up with Silvia and hardly anyone stays clothed for this movie's running time.
John Steiner, who usually overacts in nearly everything, has found a role in this that's perfect for him. He's out of control and a lunatic and given to pouring J&B in women's belly buttons instead of shot glasses. One night it all goes too far and he repeatedly stabs his wife with a trident - yes, really - and throws her overboard. Our young and free working class kids respond to this by getting him drunk and convincing him that Silvia in a wig is his dead wife back from her watery grave. They dress him up in a SCUBA suit and toss his ass overboard and finally enjoy the fruits of labor. This would only be a bigger proletariat victory if they burned the yacht down and walked away from the harbor in slow motion smoking cigarettes.
There's also a strange skeletal drawing above Giorgio and Silvia's bed that keeps changing as the movie twists and turns. It's not so much giallo as, well, what else would you call it? Sex and murder on a boat? Let's just be find with the giallo title and enjoy this movie for what it is. Deodato has some nice diving footage and shows he's as adept at filming gorgeous women as he is people being eaten and turtles being killed (yes, this is a Deodato movie, so an eel is violently killed for real, fair warning).
Waves of Lust has Ruggero Deodato at the wheel and he's working from a script by Franco Bottari (Colt 38 Special Squad) and Fabio Pittorru (The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave) from a story by Gianlorenzo Battaglia and Lamberto Bava.
We meet young and in love couple Irem (Al Cliver, Endgame) and Barbara (Silvia Dionisio, Murder Obsession) in the middle of their vacation in Sicily. An older and not-so-in-love couple named Giorgio (John Steiner, Shock) and Silvia (Elizabeth Turner, Beyond the Door) beckons them to join them on their yacht and that's when things get cooking.
Somehow, this movie becomes an anti-capitalist one, as Giorgio is an industrialist who owns nearly everything, including his wife, and lords it over anyone he can. That said, in no way will the message get in the way of what this movie is really about, and that's making a giallo that's more on the erotic side than the thriller part of the erotic thriller. Both Irem and Barbara end up with Silvia and hardly anyone stays clothed for this movie's running time.
John Steiner, who usually overacts in nearly everything, has found a role in this that's perfect for him. He's out of control and a lunatic and given to pouring J&B in women's belly buttons instead of shot glasses. One night it all goes too far and he repeatedly stabs his wife with a trident - yes, really - and throws her overboard. Our young and free working class kids respond to this by getting him drunk and convincing him that Silvia in a wig is his dead wife back from her watery grave. They dress him up in a SCUBA suit and toss his ass overboard and finally enjoy the fruits of labor. This would only be a bigger proletariat victory if they burned the yacht down and walked away from the harbor in slow motion smoking cigarettes.
There's also a strange skeletal drawing above Giorgio and Silvia's bed that keeps changing as the movie twists and turns. It's not so much giallo as, well, what else would you call it? Sex and murder on a boat? Let's just be find with the giallo title and enjoy this movie for what it is. Deodato has some nice diving footage and shows he's as adept at filming gorgeous women as he is people being eaten and turtles being killed (yes, this is a Deodato movie, so an eel is violently killed for real, fair warning).