It's weird to see Joe Dallesandro in anything outside of those Andy Warhol-related films that he did. This one here is an Italian kidnapping deal directed by the great Fernando Di Leo, not an action movie despite the RAMBO-rip-off promised by that German DVD cover up there. I've seen it compared to stuff like LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK but, even though there is a rape involved, this is a lot tamer than those 2 examples of extreme cinema. This one mainly deals more with psychological trauma than the physical sort. There's a love(sex?) triangle between a married couple and the wife's sister that Joe stumbles across in his attempt to get back some stolen loot he's stashed in their summer retreat. Interesting flick but probably not for the rape-happy gorehounds looking for more lurid fare. You do get Lorraine De Selle(best known to me as the main gal in MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY) pretty much totally naked for the whole runtime acting extra sexy and sleazy, so that's something at least.
One thing I did learn from this film is that director Di Leo must have loved that MILANO CALIBRE 9 soundtrack because he recycles it here(it was also reused in WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? but I guess that wasn't Di Leo's doing)
No comments:
Post a Comment