Oft Hands or The Hands of a Single Woman is about Countess Eugenia Fabiani (Marina Hedman, La bimba di Satana) and her deserted cottages overlooking a series of cliffs in Southern Italy. English writer Tom MacLaglen (Vanni Materassi) has come there looking for inspiration. He is joined by his wife Sara (Bibi Cassanelli). They've reached what may be the end of their marriage after he forced her to have an abortion, which causes her to no longer allow him to touch her.
This allows Eugenia to pursue Sara, leaving behind her servant Fosca (Christiana Borghi) who finds herself in the bed of the husband as well as working up a lunatic and a blind man. This is not a good idea, as Dr. Oscar (Edoardo Spada) and his two nuns run a mental hospital. Of course, one night, five of the patients - lured on by the idea that all of these sexualized women are so close after watching them on the beach - escape and attack, taking Eugenia's hands. These men may as well be out of a horror movie.
This is one weird film. Director and writer Nello Rossati may have never made a normal picture, as he also made the comedy zombie movie Io Zombo, Tu Zombi, Lei Zomba; the 1972 giallo La gatta in calore; the seemingly post-apocalyptic western Django Strikes Again, a Napoleon film named Bona parte di Paolina; Ursula Andress slumming it in The Sensuous Nurse; the crime movie Don't Touch the Children!; a female revenge movie by the name of Fuga scabrosamente pericolosa and the delirious weirdness that is Top Line. He wasn't going to let me down here, because this is at times comedy and other times outright horror.
This allows Eugenia to pursue Sara, leaving behind her servant Fosca (Christiana Borghi) who finds herself in the bed of the husband as well as working up a lunatic and a blind man. This is not a good idea, as Dr. Oscar (Edoardo Spada) and his two nuns run a mental hospital. Of course, one night, five of the patients - lured on by the idea that all of these sexualized women are so close after watching them on the beach - escape and attack, taking Eugenia's hands. These men may as well be out of a horror movie.
This is one weird film. Director and writer Nello Rossati may have never made a normal picture, as he also made the comedy zombie movie Io Zombo, Tu Zombi, Lei Zomba; the 1972 giallo La gatta in calore; the seemingly post-apocalyptic western Django Strikes Again, a Napoleon film named Bona parte di Paolina; Ursula Andress slumming it in The Sensuous Nurse; the crime movie Don't Touch the Children!; a female revenge movie by the name of Fuga scabrosamente pericolosa and the delirious weirdness that is Top Line. He wasn't going to let me down here, because this is at times comedy and other times outright horror.