Wednesday, July 31, 2024

So Sweet...So perverse (1969) – Umberto Lenzi.

Giallo supremo Umberto Lenzi's bravura talent for making dazzling, twist-laden thrillers is put to vivid use in one of my favourite jet-set skewering 60s Italian shockers. The glamorous veneer of these hedonistic, dangerously duplicitous, and increasingly malign protagonists is gradually exposed as a most brittle facade, only temporarily obscuring their altogether murderous lust for sex, power and wealth! Once again, the compellingly circuitous plot is brilliantly conceived by prodigiously talented thriller writer Ernesto Gastaldi. So Sweet...So perverse features Lenzi's wickedly ambivalent blonde murder muse Carroll Baker, along with equally stunning Euro-cult legend Erika Blanc, two exquisitely vulpine Giallo vixens. Villains or victims? The answer might come a little late for opportunistic Lothario Trintignant, but the sordid scheming provides some deliciously decadent entertainment from a true master of sin-soaked suspense! So Sweet...So perverse has another killer score by Riz Ortolani, a dazzling cast to die for, and a diabolically twisted ending that will take your breath away!

 


 

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