During my viewing of Ronald D. Moore and David Eick's astonishing TV series Battlestar Galactica,I was a bit surprise to discover a Giallo being sold on Ebay for 99p that starred the only cast member from the original series:Richard Hatch.Being interesting in seeing how one of the cast members would be in a Giallo film,I decided to "lift off" and got hold of this very entertaining Erotic Thriller Giallo.
The plot:
Desperate to pay up the huge "debt" she has made from all the drugs that she has been taking,Elizabeth decides to help out the group of drug deals who have been selling to her via becoming a courier who keeps their latest supply hidden inside her long black coat.Wanting to tell her sister Anna about how deep she is getting herself into murky waters,Elizabeth tries several times to ring Anna (who does not pick up the phone,due to Elizabeth having always phoned her up in the past just to borrow some cash.)Realising that Anna is never going to pick up,Elizabeth goes to pick up her latest drug-filled coat,but instead of following the dealers orders she instead pays a visit to a mysterious woman and switches the coat over for an "empty" one.Finishing the switch,Elizabeth rushes off to a local night club due to having plans of meeting her boyfriend their later on.As she starts to put her make up on,a stranger in a long black coat & gloves enters the bathroom and brutally kills Elizabeth.Suspecting that the most recent drug supply is hidden in the coat she is currently wearing,the killer hides Elizabeths body,grabs the coat and runs away.Meannwhile,feeling regretful about intensionally missing her sisters calls of desperation,Anna begins desperately searching round for her now slaughtered sister,which will lead to her discovering,that along with a few added "bonuses" all of the debt and drug dealers that her sister had has now transferred to her.
View on the film:
Making his debut in movies as the assistant director on one of the first Giali which signalled a transformation into the Eroctic Thriller with Play Motel ,writer/director/prouducer Stelio Fiorenza unexpectedly goes for a bit of a restrain effort (although,he does include a great shower scenes which allows all of Marina Suma to be seen)by pushing the mobster element to the forefront and also including some fun Giallo- style jump-cuts,a far too short in first person death and a nice grubby appearance to the setting that helps Fiorenza to creates a terrific murky style.For the screenplay of the film Fiorenza,includes a wonderful character who seems to have been ripped from the pages featuring Miss Havisham of Great Expectations!.Including this strange character luckily helps to partly cover what I found to be the biggest disappointment with the film,which was that it had a big opportunity to do a fantastic twist ending which would have pre-dated the ending of Wes Cravens Scream, but instead completely wasted the chance thanks to Fiorenza showing everything that Elizabeth has got herself caught up in far to early.Looking at the performances,I feel that although he is given a surprisingly small role,Richard Hatch does very well at playing Elizabeths boyfriend Marco who shows a good amount of fear and nervousness as he begins to realise what troubles his (now dead) girlfriend has left behind for him.Along with Hatch,Marina Suma gives a really great performance as Elizabeth's investigating sister Anna,who I feel struck a good balance between making the viewer feel the weight on her shoulders for missing the phone calls,and also someone who is sicken at the disgusting things that she seems to be getting pulled into.
The plot:
Desperate to pay up the huge "debt" she has made from all the drugs that she has been taking,Elizabeth decides to help out the group of drug deals who have been selling to her via becoming a courier who keeps their latest supply hidden inside her long black coat.Wanting to tell her sister Anna about how deep she is getting herself into murky waters,Elizabeth tries several times to ring Anna (who does not pick up the phone,due to Elizabeth having always phoned her up in the past just to borrow some cash.)Realising that Anna is never going to pick up,Elizabeth goes to pick up her latest drug-filled coat,but instead of following the dealers orders she instead pays a visit to a mysterious woman and switches the coat over for an "empty" one.Finishing the switch,Elizabeth rushes off to a local night club due to having plans of meeting her boyfriend their later on.As she starts to put her make up on,a stranger in a long black coat & gloves enters the bathroom and brutally kills Elizabeth.Suspecting that the most recent drug supply is hidden in the coat she is currently wearing,the killer hides Elizabeths body,grabs the coat and runs away.Meannwhile,feeling regretful about intensionally missing her sisters calls of desperation,Anna begins desperately searching round for her now slaughtered sister,which will lead to her discovering,that along with a few added "bonuses" all of the debt and drug dealers that her sister had has now transferred to her.
View on the film:
Making his debut in movies as the assistant director on one of the first Giali which signalled a transformation into the Eroctic Thriller with Play Motel ,writer/director/prouducer Stelio Fiorenza unexpectedly goes for a bit of a restrain effort (although,he does include a great shower scenes which allows all of Marina Suma to be seen)by pushing the mobster element to the forefront and also including some fun Giallo- style jump-cuts,a far too short in first person death and a nice grubby appearance to the setting that helps Fiorenza to creates a terrific murky style.For the screenplay of the film Fiorenza,includes a wonderful character who seems to have been ripped from the pages featuring Miss Havisham of Great Expectations!.Including this strange character luckily helps to partly cover what I found to be the biggest disappointment with the film,which was that it had a big opportunity to do a fantastic twist ending which would have pre-dated the ending of Wes Cravens Scream, but instead completely wasted the chance thanks to Fiorenza showing everything that Elizabeth has got herself caught up in far to early.Looking at the performances,I feel that although he is given a surprisingly small role,Richard Hatch does very well at playing Elizabeths boyfriend Marco who shows a good amount of fear and nervousness as he begins to realise what troubles his (now dead) girlfriend has left behind for him.Along with Hatch,Marina Suma gives a really great performance as Elizabeth's investigating sister Anna,who I feel struck a good balance between making the viewer feel the weight on her shoulders for missing the phone calls,and also someone who is sicken at the disgusting things that she seems to be getting pulled into.