A couple of young hippies decide to make a quick buck selling pornography in Italy. They soon get into bother and eventually go on the run. They wind up in a villa inhabited by a friendly if somewhat odd older woman. Their problems are only just about to begin.
This film is labelled as a giallo by many, although I'm not sure I necessarily agree that it is. It's more of a crime-thriller than anything else. It basically boils down to a cat and mouse game between three people. It feels relatively restrained for an Umberto Lenzi picture. It isn't very violent at all, although it does have some quite frank sexual scenes. While it is a thriller, it does feel very much more a product of the end of the counter-culture, with it's pessimistic ending recalling the nihilistic finales of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969). It's hippies gone bad idea is very much in line with the then hugely topical post Manson Family massacres. At one point a character even writes the word 'PIGS' in large letters on a mirror for no discernible reason other than that was precisely what the Manson girls did in the houses where they committed their infamous homicides; although admittedly, in reality these words were written in the blood of their victims, rather than in ketchup, as was the case in this movie!
It's all-in-all a good enough genre picture, although not a great one. Like most other Lenzi flicks it is unashamedly salacious stuff, with enough unpretentious sleaze to ensure it's entertaining stuff on the whole.
This film is labelled as a giallo by many, although I'm not sure I necessarily agree that it is. It's more of a crime-thriller than anything else. It basically boils down to a cat and mouse game between three people. It feels relatively restrained for an Umberto Lenzi picture. It isn't very violent at all, although it does have some quite frank sexual scenes. While it is a thriller, it does feel very much more a product of the end of the counter-culture, with it's pessimistic ending recalling the nihilistic finales of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969). It's hippies gone bad idea is very much in line with the then hugely topical post Manson Family massacres. At one point a character even writes the word 'PIGS' in large letters on a mirror for no discernible reason other than that was precisely what the Manson girls did in the houses where they committed their infamous homicides; although admittedly, in reality these words were written in the blood of their victims, rather than in ketchup, as was the case in this movie!
It's all-in-all a good enough genre picture, although not a great one. Like most other Lenzi flicks it is unashamedly salacious stuff, with enough unpretentious sleaze to ensure it's entertaining stuff on the whole.