Martin Yakobowsky (Mark Benninghoffen) is a Chicago lawyer assigned to resolve a case close to where he grew up in Iowa, a place that he though he had left behind after his testimony in a triple murder case led to a man going to the electric chair.
As for the case, it's between Polish farm workers - the same people Martin grew up with - and a state congressman. But while he's back home, Martin becomes obsessed with the case he testified in, the murder of a call girl and her friends. He can't remember what he saw years ago and he's started to hear strange noises out of the storage room next to his hotel room. Was the girl he died his girlfriend? Did she die in that noisy room?
The 1940s atmosphere and being set in the U. S. - and filmed in Iowa and Illinois - don't let on that this is an Italian giallo. Not only was it directed by Fabrizio Laurenti (who made Witchery and The Crawlers using the name Martin Newlin; Joe D'Amato may also have directed some of those movies), but it has a story by Fabio Clemente and Luigi Sardiello that was scripted by Pupi Avati.
Yes, that's right. Pupi Avati.
This feels a lot like The House with the Laughing Windows at least as much as it explores the memories that we have in our youth and how they aren't always true as we get older. This also has one of the most sensual razor kills ever, if that can be possible.
I have no idea why more people aren't talking about this, a film written by an Italian legend and filmed in America. I also can't believe it took me so long to discover it.
As for the case, it's between Polish farm workers - the same people Martin grew up with - and a state congressman. But while he's back home, Martin becomes obsessed with the case he testified in, the murder of a call girl and her friends. He can't remember what he saw years ago and he's started to hear strange noises out of the storage room next to his hotel room. Was the girl he died his girlfriend? Did she die in that noisy room?
The 1940s atmosphere and being set in the U. S. - and filmed in Iowa and Illinois - don't let on that this is an Italian giallo. Not only was it directed by Fabrizio Laurenti (who made Witchery and The Crawlers using the name Martin Newlin; Joe D'Amato may also have directed some of those movies), but it has a story by Fabio Clemente and Luigi Sardiello that was scripted by Pupi Avati.
Yes, that's right. Pupi Avati.
This feels a lot like The House with the Laughing Windows at least as much as it explores the memories that we have in our youth and how they aren't always true as we get older. This also has one of the most sensual razor kills ever, if that can be possible.
I have no idea why more people aren't talking about this, a film written by an Italian legend and filmed in America. I also can't believe it took me so long to discover it.