Strip Nude for Your Killer (Nude per l’assassino)
EDWIGE FENECH | NINO CASTELNUOVO | FEMI BENUSSI | SOLVI STUBING | AMANDA | FRANCO DIOGENE | LUCIO COMO | ERNA SCHURER
Dir. Andrea Bianchi | 1975 | 89 minutes | Italy | (adv. 18) | Horror / Thriller | Dubbed
This is the original UK release print.
Available on 35mm
Materials: b/w images
Screenings:
Derby QUAD, May 6 and 7, 2016, as part of FANTASTIQ IV
With a story tracking the mysterious bloody murders of a black leather-clad knife-wielding serial killer in a sexy Milan fashion house, Strip Nude for Your Killer (aka Nude per l’assassino) remains a classic if elusive example of the Italian shock thriller or ‘giallo’. Gialli were concerned with style, effect and visceral impact at the expense of any convincing plot and, propelled by the nudity first exposed in the Italian mondo film, combined sex and violence with sadistic glee (crew members feared for director Bianchi’s sanity). With performances by a bevy of Euro starlets (dressed in Levi’s), a script exploring the ‘psychopathology of the modern city’, and a pulsating, sleazy soundtrack by Berto Pisano Strip Nude for Your Killer is a fantastic film, but a thrilling one.
STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER is part of the FANTASTIQ archive
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