A film with really nice locales (nice brick buildings and lush green landscapes), unbearably cheesy acting and loads of nude girls. There is a lot to appreciate - Morricone's score in particular (it is one of my favorite Morricone scores now) and some interesting camera angles.
A young girl (who is having an affair with her school teacher) catches the gleam of a knife in the wilderness when she is making love to the teacher (Fabio Testi) in a boat. Soon, a number of dead girls turn up, all with knife wounds to their private parts. The teacher is the main suspect. Him and his devoted wife set out to find the real killer.
The title scenes with the girls riding bicycles in slow motion makes sense towards the end. The ending revelation made the movie. But the film is definitely flawed. There isn't enough screen time for the girls who are being killed. They should have been the focus of the film. But it is only towards the end that we realize that they are harboring some deadly secret. The husband-wife dynamic was quite uninteresting. Even the actresses were quite ugly when you consider some of the other Giallo films.
(6/10)
A young girl (who is having an affair with her school teacher) catches the gleam of a knife in the wilderness when she is making love to the teacher (Fabio Testi) in a boat. Soon, a number of dead girls turn up, all with knife wounds to their private parts. The teacher is the main suspect. Him and his devoted wife set out to find the real killer.
The title scenes with the girls riding bicycles in slow motion makes sense towards the end. The ending revelation made the movie. But the film is definitely flawed. There isn't enough screen time for the girls who are being killed. They should have been the focus of the film. But it is only towards the end that we realize that they are harboring some deadly secret. The husband-wife dynamic was quite uninteresting. Even the actresses were quite ugly when you consider some of the other Giallo films.
(6/10)