Psychout for Murder (1969)
aka Salvare la faccia
Genre: Giallo
Country: Italy | Argentina| Director: Rossano Brazzi
Language: Italian | Subtitles: English (.srt file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 88mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv - 640x480 - 25fps - 1.11gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067631/
A young heiress (Adrienne Larussa) is committed to an insane asylum after she is caught bouncing around in a brothel with her sleazy boyfriend (Nino Castelnuovo), who actually set the whole thing up in order to blackmail Larussas rich daddy (as he is called in the film, and is also the name of the films theme song). Upon her release, she seeks very twisted revenge...
With an English language title that promises the giallo equivalent of a Bruce Dern head movie viewers may be surprised by what is in effect an intriguing, almost Marxian, satire of life behind the facade of bourgeois morality as a wealthy industrialist is prepared to have his daughter committed to an asylum rather than face the scandal of her public displays of sexuality as exposed by her blackmailer boyfriend. However, behind the scenes, there remains a class who take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.
In the name of revenge reluctant mental patient Adrienne Larussa, Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci from the historical classic, lays a series of fiendish tripwire traps with all the guile of Wile E. Coyote. Her sexuality acting as a bait to divest assorted hangers-on, with their sense of entitlement to some trickle down wealth or dowry, by means of a little push off the mortal coil.
The movie, directed and written by star Rossano Brazzi, does feature a groovy hey-daddio hippy happening and the occasional nod in the direction of experimental filmmaking of the period. It also features a score by Benedetto Ghiglia to die for, or, in the case of some unfortunate members of the ensemble, die to. Not exactly perfetto but no way too shabby either.
An Electra complex of sorts is suggested, albeit with some ambiguity, and the whole moral basis for the affair is called into question with a somewhat subtle twist of an ending.
With an English language title that promises the giallo equivalent of a Bruce Dern head movie viewers may be surprised by what is in effect an intriguing, almost Marxian, satire of life behind the facade of bourgeois morality as a wealthy industrialist is prepared to have his daughter committed to an asylum rather than face the scandal of her public displays of sexuality as exposed by her blackmailer boyfriend. However, behind the scenes, there remains a class who take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.
In the name of revenge reluctant mental patient Adrienne Larussa, Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci from the historical classic, lays a series of fiendish tripwire traps with all the guile of Wile E. Coyote. Her sexuality acting as a bait to divest assorted hangers-on, with their sense of entitlement to some trickle down wealth or dowry, by means of a little push off the mortal coil.
The movie, directed and written by star Rossano Brazzi, does feature a groovy hey-daddio hippy happening and the occasional nod in the direction of experimental filmmaking of the period. It also features a score by Benedetto Ghiglia to die for, or, in the case of some unfortunate members of the ensemble, die to. Not exactly perfetto but no way too shabby either.
An Electra complex of sorts is suggested, albeit with some ambiguity, and the whole moral basis for the affair is called into question with a somewhat subtle twist of an ending.
Psychout for Murder (1969)
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