6/10
Spanish/Italian Gallo set in London including lots of murders, chills, thrills and red herrings
10 February 2021
At the beginning a killing happens at an airport restroom , after that a beautiful girl called Peggy Foster : Gillian Hills residing in London city is really worried, that's why she has not heard from her sweetheart for long time, as he is a war correspondant in Vietnam. Meanwhile, she attempts to rent his loft to an alleged tenant called John Lawford who suddenly commits suicide. Then , things go wrong when at her flat appears the true tenant John Lawford : Angel Del Pozo . Subsequently, a series of mysterious murders happen in London. Along the way a Police Inspector : Manuel Gas starts investigating the bloody crimes . It is diabolical! It is daring! It is stalking, it cuts, it rips!

Spanish Giallo in medium budget packing suspense, tense, whodunit , thrills, plot twists , nudism and lots of blood and gore. A B-entertainment with a fairly suspenseful and frightening story in which a serial murderer on the loose undertaking a criminal spree by means of slitting, decapitation and other grisly executions. The tale about an ominous killer begins well and grows more and more until the twisted final including a pursuit in which we figure out the guilty. Interesting and entertaining story based on a novel by Luisa Maria Linares and script with plenty of twists and turns from Renato Izzo and Juan Bosch himself. Stars the gorgeous British girl Gillian Hills who acted in Clockwork Orange and Blow Out , she gives a mediocre, though passable acting . Being a Spain/Italy coproduction , there shows up some Spanish actors : Angel Del Pozo, Silvia Solar , Carlos Otero, Goyo Lebrero, Manuel Gas and Italian ones : Stelio Candelli, Bruno Corazazzi, Orchidea De Santis , Raf Baldassarre's cameo , among others.

It displays atmospheric cinematography by Julio Perez Rozas, though an alright remastering being really necessary . Suspenseful and funky/jazz musical score with a catching , groovy leitmotif by Marcello Giombini . Shot on location in London, Barcelona and Elios studios , Rome. The picture was professionally directed by Juan Bosch, containing some flaws, failures and gaps. Bosch was a Spanish artisan who wrote and directed films of all kinds of genres such as Spaghetti Western : "Dallas", "God in heaven Arizona on Earth", "And the crows will dig your grave" , "My horse my gun your widow", "Ciudad Maldita", "Stagecoach of the condemned", "They believed he was no Saint" . Comedy : " Mauricio mon amour" , "40 años sin sexo", "Caray con el divorcio", "Rolls para Hipolito" . Terror : " Secta Siniestra" and Giallo : "The killer with a thousand eyes", "The killer wore gloves" . Rating 5.5/10. Only for Giallo and slasher aficionados.
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