 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1971 Italian giallo film the blood-stained Butterfly and this is my first time seeing a film by Duccio Tissari and this is a good one I actually enjoyed this this doesn't like crack my top ten or anything like that But it is a good giallo film that was worth it because the story was interesting and I will go into a bunch of that stuff So obviously spoilers for this one because I've been doing spoilers for all these giallo films because they're old You know So this one was directed like I said by Duccio Tissari who also did such scripts as or such films as Death occurred last night winged devils and puzzle. Those are just a few other horror films that he did Tissari was also involved in writing the script for this one And so was John Franco Clarici who you might know from some other scripts such as macabre Don't torture a duckling five women for the killer jungle Holocaust Cannibal Holocaust the New York Ripper and delirium So quite a resume there and it's funny because I'm doing this review and there's that tie with John Carlo as a writer with Cannibal Holocaust and the last giallo review I did was for the pajama girl case and there was the tie with Riz Ortolani doing the score for that one who also did for Cannibal Holocaust. So just kind of funny All this was also titled a secret of the black rose. I believe that was when it was released in Germany That was the title for it, which Both are good. So I guess I should show you at this point. I watched it on this arrow Blu-ray that I got sorry. I'm trying not to get too much glare on it, but It looks good If you can see let me see if I can get you a good look Because it is really good artwork like look at how good that artwork is Really cool artwork. So I do like the cover of this anyway The opening music is a very grandiose It had a very big score a big orchestral kind of Classical at times score which I kind of liked it helped with a little bit more of the emotional side of things Because with the script, obviously they were going for a lot of emotional stuff especially with the ending where you find out that What's his name? Giorgio that Giorgio had basically Had this master plan from the get-go to take out Alessandro and because of friend François who he had been seeing in addition to Sarah So yeah, and that was I'll talk more about that in a little bit The so here was the quote that popped up in the very beginning of the film The past does not exist since it is already gone by nor does the future Exists since it is yet to come Therefore only the present exists, but it may be composed of past and future since it is where they meet So I think this is just kind of supposed to give you an idea that you can't necessarily Trust what's happened in someone's past What it looks like things are going to be like in the future You have to live in the present of the film in order to take the ride along with it and figure out what actually happened So yeah, that's just my interpretation of it. There's probably some other interpretations though a Nice quiet afternoon outside and then what do you know a dead body rolls down the hill? I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me actually zero times But I thought that was funny that that's kind of how things get going with this is the woman with her kids In the in the wooded area and then all of a sudden the dead body Francois comes rolling down the hill and they're like, oh no, so it was just kind of funny When there are scenes of the killer running in giallo, I always pay close attention to how they run Kind of like their gait of how they run and how they do things because a lot of the times When they're showing someone running, uh, it can end up looking more feminine versus masculine Although that doesn't always Lead to who the killer actually was but i'm always looking for those clues because i'm always trying to figure it out ahead of time I know a lot of people say that why do you do that that? You know, it takes a lot of the fun out of it. I don't know. It's more fun for me to try and guess Just saying But um, I didn't really see anything in when the killer was running away Um, but I always look for that stuff. Oh, yes Always a sex maniac is suspected in these instances and this film is no different I was expecting it as soon as the police officers the inspectors were giving out all their theories I was like, where is it? Where is it sex maniac? There it is sex maniac. There's always the sex maniac Yes, and that's what they go with and it you know, I mean it was it basically was in this instance And in general it was everyone's a sex maniac basically everyone's getting it on in this film I mean you got alessandro who was a killer you got, uh, Giorgio who was also a killer but was also having a lot of sex you had, uh, maria and the attorney I forget what his name is at the moment julio. I think it was They were having sex sarah was having sex François was having sex marto was having sex like everyone's having sex on this everyone and it's really messy relationship wise which I think adds to some Kind of unintended comedy at certain times and I'll talk about one In particular a little bit later than I had appreciation for because of how the story went I do like the evidence processing and working Through theories of the events. Uh, I do really like that it felt felt very nicely procedural at that point and I mean in general this this film did feel kind of like inspector slash police procedural In fact so much so that I feel like it feels a little bit like a precursor to something like A law and order show in the united states, you know granted this was you know decades before But it kind of feels like the precursor to a show like that because if you think about it It's you know, they do kind of their procedural thing of them going over You know the crime scene and then talking about their theories and then doing the investigations But they have so much focusing on the actual court events too, which a lot of yellow films don't spend a lot of time in the courts Um, usually because they're trying to figure Like there's there's usually not any sort of trial Going on and in this It it was weird because it ended up being that the person who was first suspected and put on trial actually ended up being the Initial killer, but you just have that twist thrown in there of more killings happening and why So there you go So I did like that. It was kind of like a fresh script You see another victim coming when the student almost gets hit by the white convertible Especially since you just see the top half of the driver's face now That was actually a bit of a red herring. Obviously we did get more people getting killed But at that moment when like sarah almost gets hit by the white convertible And they only showed like from here like from here up on the person I was like, oh, I think she's gonna get killed. She didn't end up getting killed other people did though Alessandro is arrested because of his coat having mud on it But then the fingerprint comparison actually looks really interesting. I I was going in between like Like the whole thing where where it seemed like they were arresting him based off mud on his coat But then they start throwing everything out when they're actually in the court proceedings Especially the fingerprint comparison, which why wasn't that a bigger thing at the end of the film? Honestly before he got exonerated that that's kind of crazy. But um It was good because they they it started a little bit shaky But they really the prosecution really did build a good case to a point where I was like, uh, you know Maybe this is the guy in which case. I can't figure out how this is a giallo But then the attorney, um, julio steps in and he starts just taking things down He just starts being like well in this case, you know, it could be this and in this case It could be this obviously for the mud on the jacket is when alessandro Well, alessandro told his attorney that, you know, he got it thrown onto his jacket from a car passing by that hit a muddy puddle You know, he had all these he was a good attorney He had all the ways to take down these bits of evidence and whatever the prosecution was Prosecution was showing which is obviously why in the end he got off actually a portion of why he got off the main reason he got off is because um georgia was out there killing other women and making it look the same as when alessandro did it I like the shot of sarah and georgia moving in different directions on the street But they stayed in the same frame together. I thought that was a really cool shot. That was when georgia had first um Testified and if you catch, you know, sarah says something about you know, thank you for For telling the truth and he says something about like being a fable But if you tell a fable enough or something it becomes the truth in essence Like you can make a fable truth. It was something to that uh to that degree which actually gives you A hint that he was lying in there And when you think back on it after the end of the film You realize that it that was hard for him because he hates alessandro obviously because he knows that alessandro killed françois So there he is trying his best to get alessandro off so that in the end he can do what he did and kill him himself Get his revenge for taking his love from him But that shot after uh, did he get back to it? Sorry, we're a roundabout way to get there that shot where they they come out of the court and sarah is like walking towards the camera and um georgia was walking kind of a way into the side But they stay in the frame together Really really good looking and in general, you know, the directing is very good with this The camera movements in particular lots of lots of interesting movements Lots of kind of movements moving around the characters and kind of opening scenes up a lot more Which i always say i like because it makes me as an audience member feel more engaged Uh in the scene because i feel like i get more of a perspective of what The scene is like what's going on it makes you feel more a part of it Um georgio seems real suspect when he's acting odd and turning music up while ignoring sarah Now note at that part where he is seeming very suspect. He hasn't killed anyone yet He is innocent at that point where he's flipping out and sarah's trying to talk to him and i guess it's in his place And he's just like having the music and he's kind of like there like this like You know because he's obviously going through some stuff because he misses Francois, but he can't really talk to sarah about that because she He was seeing both of them at the same time in essence. So They keep throwing many twists like alessandra's affair with marta and maria hiding Alessandro's shirt that had a blood audit and then you throw into it julio sleeping with maria And this is what i was talking about about like the intricacy of these relationships, you know, you had Alessandro and maria who were married Now alessandro is cheating on maria with marta And maria is cheating on alessandro with his attorney julio and then you had uh georgio Who was with sarah, but also cheating on sarah with france swah It's just like so much Deception and then the deception of the script and the story with the audience goes hand in hand I get that having extreme close-ups is one way to get around the nudity portion of sex scenes But it's actually extremely annoying, especially when they draw it out and they really did that in this in this film You don't need to have a super long sex scene, especially when you're just showing Very very close up. So you're not really showing nudity or anything There's no point, you know, like it's just annoying like Move the camera back. I feel claustrophobic because you're way too close to these people So that's one of the directorial things. I did not really like but there wasn't that much I like to jump from julio meeting the prostitute to her being dead while the police process the crime scene you know, obviously that's supposed to be a very strong indicator that You know julio may have been the person to kill this prostitute, which is the first death after france swah's initial death um Because he's getting he's going to get some cigarettes and she's there at the same cigarette machine And then it's just like immediately jump to she's dead and this pack of cigarettes are still sitting there So that's supposed to make the audience Grab that red herring and be like, oh julio could be the killer, which would also be an interesting twist But I like what they did with it I laughed when georgia put out his birthday candles with a glass of water You could see him emotionally going through some stuff. You could also see that he didn't have a very good relationship with his family Um, so much so that you know, they couldn't really pick up that there was something going on with him And he was mad about it at the table. He gets his birthday cake and then he just takes his glass of water Dumps it. I like that Yuck, what a gross scene with julio throwing himself all over sarah. That was disgusting. So When you do that that is yet another one of those red herrings to be like, oh julio is a sex maniac potentially the person who killed france swah Um, because he here he is he's in a relationship with maria Well, he's married then he's in a mar has maria on the side then he's going after maria's daughter sarah Pretty gross, but yeah, it was a gross scene When the third victim is being followed and the cigarette is put out it insinuates julio as the killer once again They were really working that julio angle pretty hard Because you had the one prostitute that was killed after seeing julio getting cigarettes and then the cigarette pack next to her Then for the second prostitute that ends up getting killed you get Uh, the showing of just like the from the legs to the shoes like shin to shoes And then someone putting out a cigarette And that's supposed to make you think back to julio once again and be like, huh, it should it should be julio, but it's not Is actually georgio What an awkward meal with maria julio alessandro and sarah lots of tension there I thought that was a really funny scene. I really loved that scene because when they're sitting there It feels awkward. It feels like there's a tension at the table and you as an audience member are just thinking back to okay There's a lot of cheating going on here and there's a lot of mistrust going on here But they're sitting at this table trying to be civil and trying to like Have a meal and it's just kind of funny to think about that. So I love that scene for that reason I mean out of context. That's just a really like whatever boring scene But within the context of the storyline and what's going on. I love it Now bararty the inspector bararty never gets his coffee the way he wants it That's a funny little thing that they put in there like he's continually getting this coffee from his assistant And it's never exactly the way he wants it like it's either too cold or it's too sugary or it's too hot I think the first time there's too much sugar in it The second time it's too hot and then the third time Oh, no, the second time it's too cold. The third time it's too hot, but I thought that was a little bit funny alessandro seems to be walking through the old building for quite some time at the end When he's showing up because he was just on the phone and he gets this word about blackmail Because obviously someone knows what's going on But it's actually georgio trying to lure him to a secluded place in order to do the deed and get rid of him Which was his plan ever since france. While was killed basically But it feels like alessandro is taking a long time going through the building I understand that you can do something like that to kind of try to build tension But I don't feel like it really did enough of that because it went on a little too long I think it should have been cut down at least a little bit excuse me georgio showed a gun earlier in the film that means it needed to be used So this is when it gets used is when he uses it for its initial intent, which is to kill alessandro Now I had that in the back of my mind someone had actually made a comment on one of my other Reviews who reminded me it's check olives gun is what the term the proper term for that is that if you see the the gun Earlier in the film it will be used in some way later on I think that was during my review of uh death walks on high heels So we saw the gun and check-offs gun says it has to be used later and it is used later by georgio So georgio killed two women So that alessandro would go free and he could get revenge for killing françois I do like this twist to it and I will say that for the whole film I was really having a hard time figuring out who in the end. I thought it was definitely going to be I mean, I did oscillate a few times. I did think for a little bit. Maybe it was Um julio, but then they were throwing too many hints out there about julio that I was like Ah, they're going a little too hard on him. I don't think so So I don't I didn't really figure it out in the end what that twist was because one of the other things is You really are trying to figure out that initial kill the initial murder And then when the other two murders happen that makes you think oh, well, alessandro must be You know innocent, which is what ends up happening with the characters in the story those that are like, oh, he must be innocent because prostitutes are getting killed continually so yeah, so it's It works. It works. They do a good job with it And I like the story. I like they chose to go that way the combination of the music and the cutting in of scenes Of georgio and france. Wah being extremely happy actually helps to make some really good kind of emotional impact at the very end After georgio has shot alessandro and then georgio has been stabbed and honestly I kind of get the feeling that as he's laying there dying that georgio is kind of okay with that Just because he it seemed like he didn't really have a will to live past dot being able to be with france. Wah So the fact that he would go out and murder other people like he knows he's putting himself in a situation Where he could eventually be found out. He could be taken to jail um, so it seems he was just living for this revenge and since he got it he'd actually Be relatively okay with just dying after that because he doesn't even want to live without france. Wah You see all the emotional pain that he goes through throughout the film So this is one of those films that I feel like I definitely do want to watch again because of all the nuances of Of what was going on and knowing that at the end of the film and then going back and seeing All the extra stuff at play on a second viewing would be great Um, it's really engaging because you feel like you don't know where it's going like I was saying I wasn't able to really um Suss it out. I think the procedural aspect of it like I was talking about in the beginning how in depth they get with the With the uh, the court proceedings. I think is actually interesting I like how they keep throwing in these kind of mini twists within it that keeps you engaged and then just You know not necessarily knowing who it's going to end up being in the end works real well And like I said, this feels like the precursor to things like law and order. It's weird So anyway out of five stars with half stars in play for this one, I'm going to give it a three and a half star rating I think it is good. It's not like amazing. It's not the best giallo. I've ever seen but It's pretty good. I'm gonna give it a three and a half star rating Um, I'd love to hear what other people have to say about it. So you can put it down in the comments Did you love it? Did you hate it? Are you in between? Uh, because I'm always down to talk about giallo And if you don't know I have an entire playlist on my channel of giallo film reviews So you can check that out. I think this is my 39th. Maybe I'm getting there. I'm gonna keep going But anyway, uh, do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button That is your way to repay me if you like this video or any video I have ever done That's your way to repay me and it keeps me motivated. 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