Monday, April 19, 2021

'Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder'. (1972) - Mehmet Aslan.

Happily, the profile of high-impact, low-credibility Turkish genre cinema has demonstratively increased in popularity over the years. Wider availability, positive word of mouth, and enthusiastic bloggers encouraging psychotronic fans to watch the enjoyably hyperbolic 'Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder'. The logic-defying intensity of this cheaply reproduced, energetically mounted Giallo is frequently joyous to behold! This ferociously silly thriller's prolific and wonderfully illicit use of popular rock/soundtrack music lends an additionally vivid veneer of wonderfully incongruent weirdness to this singularly demented Turkish slasher!

Mehmet Aslan's frantic 'Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder' is certainly no less bewitching in its bravura far-out phantasmagoria than the Italian original. This delirious, modestly faithful iteration of, Sergio Martino's iconically twist-headed, Edwige/Hilton Giallo classic 'The Strange Case of Mrs. Wardh' (1971) maintains its scintillating strangeness! Admittedly, there are some especially lurid narrative embellishments that are most certainly best seen, rather than dully explained. This terrifically thrilling, hyper-delic Turkish Giallo is a hallucinatory, skin-flaying, reality-dodging delight!

The multitudinous skirt-raising, sexually suggestive twists and macabre turns herein rival Charlie Sheen's memoirs and the equally shrill acting performances with its bold appropriation of the original film's music with some gleefully purloined, Ennio Morricone scores curiously adds verisimilitude to the genuinely exciting Giallo. For all its barnstorming, B-movie brevity 'Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder' packs in an excess of unhinged copy cat craziness in its unusually short running time. 

'An unexpectedly wonderful, riotously razor-slashing, crimson-hued explosion of adrenalized Anatolian grindhouse Giallo insanity! - Weirdlingwolf.

 


 


















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