Also known as Foxy Lady and Spiando Marina (Spying Marina), this is a movie about Mark (Steve Bond, Picasso Trigger), a hitman who was once a cop until the death of his wife and son. The only thing that keeps him connected to humanity is his obsession with the sex worker who lives next door, Marina (Debora Caprioglio, who was the star of Tinto Brass' Paprika).
Then she loses a snake in his apartment and ends up in his bed playing with it. I guess that's the kind of meet cute you get in a giallo or an erotic thriller, which this is closer to. And Mark, well, he was a bad cop on the take to organized crime and that's why his wife and child had to die.
Of course, these two escaping their lives is going to be impossible. All they'll ever get are the stolen moments, quick bursts of physical passion and then violence is going to make its way in-between their story.
That said, I wish I could report that this was the same kind of film that Martino effortlessly created back in the 1972. You can blame Steve Bond for being a hangdog void from which no charisma can be unleashed. Perhaps it's the music by Luigi Ceccarelli, which is hilariously from some other movie - or it seems that way - and not what we're currently watching. Or you could blame the script by Martino and Piero Regnoli (who also wrote Voices from Beyond and Demonia for Fulci as well as Malombra, Sword of the Barbarians, Burial Ground and Patrick Still Lives. Or you can perhaps find fault in Martino's skills. Maybe he felt the same way, as he used the name George Raminto for this.
That said, you can't blame Debora Caprioglio. Not to be one of those dudes that leeringly wants to talk to you more about scream queens or Hammer girls, but if you're a lover of women - or can appreciate the female form - she just might convince you that there is a Grand Designer to all of our world. Also: she dated Kalus Kinski when he was in his sixties and she was 18. Also also: In this movie it feels like she's at war with clothes and hates them to the point that she should never be in them.
This was shot by Giancarlo Ferrando, who has endured filming some of the roughest entries in filmdom, including Troll 2, Devil Fish, A Bear Named Arthur (the only movie Martino said that he ever lost money on) and Detective School Dropouts. But you know me. I kind of love all of those movies.
Then she loses a snake in his apartment and ends up in his bed playing with it. I guess that's the kind of meet cute you get in a giallo or an erotic thriller, which this is closer to. And Mark, well, he was a bad cop on the take to organized crime and that's why his wife and child had to die.
Of course, these two escaping their lives is going to be impossible. All they'll ever get are the stolen moments, quick bursts of physical passion and then violence is going to make its way in-between their story.
That said, I wish I could report that this was the same kind of film that Martino effortlessly created back in the 1972. You can blame Steve Bond for being a hangdog void from which no charisma can be unleashed. Perhaps it's the music by Luigi Ceccarelli, which is hilariously from some other movie - or it seems that way - and not what we're currently watching. Or you could blame the script by Martino and Piero Regnoli (who also wrote Voices from Beyond and Demonia for Fulci as well as Malombra, Sword of the Barbarians, Burial Ground and Patrick Still Lives. Or you can perhaps find fault in Martino's skills. Maybe he felt the same way, as he used the name George Raminto for this.
That said, you can't blame Debora Caprioglio. Not to be one of those dudes that leeringly wants to talk to you more about scream queens or Hammer girls, but if you're a lover of women - or can appreciate the female form - she just might convince you that there is a Grand Designer to all of our world. Also: she dated Kalus Kinski when he was in his sixties and she was 18. Also also: In this movie it feels like she's at war with clothes and hates them to the point that she should never be in them.
This was shot by Giancarlo Ferrando, who has endured filming some of the roughest entries in filmdom, including Troll 2, Devil Fish, A Bear Named Arthur (the only movie Martino said that he ever lost money on) and Detective School Dropouts. But you know me. I kind of love all of those movies.