Sergio Martino made four movies in 1983: two comedies with Gigi Sammarchi and Andrea Roncato (Acapulco, prima spiaggia... a sinistra and Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati), the post-apocalyptic 2019: After the Fall of New York and this movie. The title would be the ingredients for a witch's spell: Eye, evil eye, parsley and fennel. Each of the stories star one of two comedy starts, either Lino Banfi or Johnny Dorell.
In the first story, "The Hair of Disgrace," Altomare Secca (Banfi) owns an appliance store and plenty of problems, from a wife (Milena Vukotic, Andy Warhol's Dracula) that has no interest in him and a daughter (Gegia) marrying a man that he hates. Then, one day, Corinto Marchialla (Mario Scaccia, the faith healer from The Antichrist) moves next door and Altomare believes that the man is the cause of all that has gone wrong in his life. His wife tells him to visit the King of the Occult (Franco Javarone), who advises him that he must take the hair from Marchialla's wife Ludovica (Dagmar Lassander) to remove his bad luck.
Altomare keeps trying to remove all of the hair but the Malocchio, or evil eye, is still on him. It even causes his mistress Helen (Janet Agren, Hands of Steel) to leave him. Can he escape the spell that is on him?
The second story, "The Magician," is about Gaspar the Magician (Dorelli), who wants to escape the life - and maybe the wife (Adriana Russo, Nightmare In Venice) - that he is in. A witch who is over three hundred years old, Marquise Del Querceto (Paola Borboni, who acted in nine decades of Italian cinema) promises him great power if he can get her pistachio ice cream. This transforms him into a magician able to even make it rain. Yet all the power has gone to his head and he has forgotten to get the witch the ice cream she asked for before her death. This story also has an appearance by Italian magician Silvan, who also performed card trucks under his real name, Aldo Savoldello, in Blonde In Black Leather.
Comedy is hard and often, Italian comedy is hard for American audiences to watch. Beyond the giallo that he was known for by American genre lovers, Martino made plenty of these movies.
In the first story, "The Hair of Disgrace," Altomare Secca (Banfi) owns an appliance store and plenty of problems, from a wife (Milena Vukotic, Andy Warhol's Dracula) that has no interest in him and a daughter (Gegia) marrying a man that he hates. Then, one day, Corinto Marchialla (Mario Scaccia, the faith healer from The Antichrist) moves next door and Altomare believes that the man is the cause of all that has gone wrong in his life. His wife tells him to visit the King of the Occult (Franco Javarone), who advises him that he must take the hair from Marchialla's wife Ludovica (Dagmar Lassander) to remove his bad luck.
Altomare keeps trying to remove all of the hair but the Malocchio, or evil eye, is still on him. It even causes his mistress Helen (Janet Agren, Hands of Steel) to leave him. Can he escape the spell that is on him?
The second story, "The Magician," is about Gaspar the Magician (Dorelli), who wants to escape the life - and maybe the wife (Adriana Russo, Nightmare In Venice) - that he is in. A witch who is over three hundred years old, Marquise Del Querceto (Paola Borboni, who acted in nine decades of Italian cinema) promises him great power if he can get her pistachio ice cream. This transforms him into a magician able to even make it rain. Yet all the power has gone to his head and he has forgotten to get the witch the ice cream she asked for before her death. This story also has an appearance by Italian magician Silvan, who also performed card trucks under his real name, Aldo Savoldello, in Blonde In Black Leather.
Comedy is hard and often, Italian comedy is hard for American audiences to watch. Beyond the giallo that he was known for by American genre lovers, Martino made plenty of these movies.