The giallo genre has long been synonymous with style and fashion, the connection first established in Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace in 1964, which saw fashion models stalked and killed by a maniac.
The late 80's saw a brief resurgence in fashion-based Italian murder mysteries with glossy gialli such as Nothing Underneath (1985), Too Beautiful To Die (1988), and this effort from director Bruno Gaburro, in which model Gloria (Teresa Leopardi) experiences car trouble and seeks help at a villa where she witnesses a murder take place. When the police investigate, they find the villa locked up and long abandoned, and doubt the woman's story. Psychiatrist Dr. Gianmarco Contini (Miles O'Keeffe) agrees to help Gloria to remember more details of the night; meanwhile, the killer tries to bump off the model before she can reveal their identity. Anthony Franciosa, star of Dario Argento's Tenebre, plays Commissioner Rizzo, the policeman in charge of the investigation.
I've mentioned Bava and Argento, but director Gaburro is the antithesis of these legends: his forgettable giallo lacks any sense of style, suffers from a sluggish pace, and features little in the way of suspense and zero horror. Gaburro cannot even muster up any gore or nudity by way of compensation. Having watched well in excess of 100 gialli, I can safely say that this is one of the worst that the genre has to offer, a tedious mess of a movie that, judging by the fact that it only has three comments here on IMDb (none of them positive), has been given the cold-shoulder it most definitely deserves.
1.5/10, generously rounded up to 2 for the supernatural element, Gloria having apparently witnessed a murder that happened years earlier.
The late 80's saw a brief resurgence in fashion-based Italian murder mysteries with glossy gialli such as Nothing Underneath (1985), Too Beautiful To Die (1988), and this effort from director Bruno Gaburro, in which model Gloria (Teresa Leopardi) experiences car trouble and seeks help at a villa where she witnesses a murder take place. When the police investigate, they find the villa locked up and long abandoned, and doubt the woman's story. Psychiatrist Dr. Gianmarco Contini (Miles O'Keeffe) agrees to help Gloria to remember more details of the night; meanwhile, the killer tries to bump off the model before she can reveal their identity. Anthony Franciosa, star of Dario Argento's Tenebre, plays Commissioner Rizzo, the policeman in charge of the investigation.
I've mentioned Bava and Argento, but director Gaburro is the antithesis of these legends: his forgettable giallo lacks any sense of style, suffers from a sluggish pace, and features little in the way of suspense and zero horror. Gaburro cannot even muster up any gore or nudity by way of compensation. Having watched well in excess of 100 gialli, I can safely say that this is one of the worst that the genre has to offer, a tedious mess of a movie that, judging by the fact that it only has three comments here on IMDb (none of them positive), has been given the cold-shoulder it most definitely deserves.
1.5/10, generously rounded up to 2 for the supernatural element, Gloria having apparently witnessed a murder that happened years earlier.