 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1972 Italian giallo film so sweet so dead And this is the first time I'm crossing into the realm of watching giallo films for review online And I got this one from the YouTube channel giallo realms. They have a ton of giallo films So that's a place you can go if you want to see some giallo. There's a lot So I'll be working through my plan is to go through all of them, but we'll see I want to go through a lot Anyway, so sweet so dead directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero Who also did some films such as the island monster? sexy folly Heat in the suburbs and Caligula's hot nights So you can kind of get a feel for horror as well as you know Sexploitation kind of there were some westerns in there There were some war movies which was very common in Italy over the decades So yeah kind of went with a lot of the trends Written by Montero as well as Luigi and Jello who also wrote scripts for Operation White Shark black Tigris black killer and the Puma man and Italo Fasan Who wrote scripts for Operation White Shark and gold face the fantastic Superman? That's an interesting one. That's not all that's just a you know a sampling Yeah, apparently a version of this film was actually released in the United States under the name penetration and there had been actual hardcore sex Sex scenes edited into the film that had nothing to do with the original Filming and production of the film and it was distributed that way as you know porn in essence as well It's like a quasi porn and they ended up having to pull it off the market then because Farley Granger the man who plays and the inspector Capuana Threatened to sue over it because it made it look like he was the one one of the ones actually Engaged in sex even though it wasn't actually him. It was added scenes after the fact so that ended up getting next So yeah, I thought that was very interesting So opening with a naked dead body is a very bold way to go with this film I was thinking oh man. Here we go. It's gonna be a lot of deaths. It's gonna be gory It's gonna be in your face and I mean There are a good amount of deaths to the film and it is kind of bold in certain ways But the kills are not that great like that's one of the big things that I don't like about this film overall I do like this film I will say for one of the main reasons being there are good twists to it and the pacing in the beginning of it It's quite good, but the The the kills just look terrible like they look awful Let's be honest about that if you've seen this film when you're watching it like the stabbing and the slashing It looks fake. It looks like they're pulling it, you know, it's like soft stabbing. It's soft slashing It's and it's always the same like there's no there's no variety really to keep you engaged So I don't like that aspect of it, but I do overall like the film and I'll talk about obviously reasons why I Like how inspector cap you want to just glances at all the people rounded up as potential suspects And says that he doesn't think they're gonna find what they're looking for in that bunch Well, he eventually actually does find what he's looking for in that bunch as in the one character Who's being talked to initially out of that group who he uses later as a mock? a mock killer To draw out the real killer which I'll talk about when we get closer to that Which was a smart move With the scratched out face on the photo of the dead woman and her lover It's meant to insinuate murder out of jealous rage now. They don't ever fully Explain why the killer ends up killing the way he does Oh, I mean they do but they don't get into the further motivation of that particular individual the professor There did they just are like, oh, he's killing all women who are sleeping around on their on their men And obviously he's he's kind of doing it as a revenge for the men in a sense So you would get the idea that he had been cheated on at some point in his life because Obviously, he's not looking for the men involved in the affairs to be called out because he's scratching out that faces and also he even gives the Gives it the tip off at the very end to Roberto. I believe it is that Keppy wanna knows that he's sleeping with his wife and You know gives him the ability to get out of there before anything goes down So yeah, although that may have also been part of getting her alone to kill her So I guess it's a dual purpose thing You know being naked improves you What a line from this film I forget exactly who said it it was someone very early on in the film But that line, you know being naked improves you I'm gonna use that at home with my wife and just see how that goes over I think she'll laugh at it, but I thought that was a funny line from the film The death scene for Serena looks weak when it comes to the stabbing because it's overly dramatized All the kills really in general But the slow motion shot of of the woman running with the killer behind her looks really awesome The only problem being they then take that slow motion and beat it to death Because they keep going with the slow motion keep going with slow motion and then that just really slows the pace down of the scene and the impact of it and it kind of sucks at that point but The initial portion of the slow motion of showing her running on the beach away from the killer and the killer behind her I guess the way you're looking at it as a viewer. It's it's to the left Looked really good. That was really cool I felt like that kind of increased the drama of the situation and the tension of the situation So I liked it initially But then they just keep going with the slow-mo and you're just like, okay, we can we can be done with this right now, please Gaston is such a creepy character and they really focus on that. He must end up being the prime Suspect that they want you to suspect for the film They always do that with Jala films They always have this one character who they make look super super suspicious and or super super creepy so that People would initially think oh well that guy is the creepiest or the most suspicious. It could be him But now us people who watch plenty of Jala films know better than that We know that that's the large red herring that they've thrown out in front of you And that's the case with Gaston and I thought it was interesting because With Gaston I feel like they placed him working with the professor For the specific purpose of drawing attention from the professor Because those two are working together obviously processing the dead bodies and Because he's so so out there and creepy and crazy people are very focused on him and because the professor is so mild-mannered Seems like a professional stands up for Gaston and also or I think they say Gaston a and also Doesn't show up that much in the film He's mainly just there in the very beginning and then not there until the end again where he's revealed to be the killer because They want you to forget about him and then bring him back and be like oh, yes that guy that gets done in Jala a lot I love that. I love it. I think it's great And a lot of times it actually does work for me because I'm so wrapped up in the actual film the story That I've forgotten about that person. I'm like, yes, that's right but in this case I didn't because with how hard they went with Gaston and then that scene with the professor Saying that it couldn't be Gaston really made me think that it was the professor because I was like, yeah They're probably playing it so hard on Gaston to take the heat away from the professor or the attention away from the professor Plus that scene in particular shows that the professor didn't want the killings associated with someone who's kind of creepy and weird and almost kind of insane Because those were his killings like he was taking some pride into them pride in them and You see that in the very end. That's how he's able to be kind of pulled out of hiding by Capuana Anyway, and once again the idea of a sex maniac as the killer is introduced This is something that happens in Jala all the time. This was thrown out in the film I'm always always waiting for it to be said by the people Investigating the deaths in any Jala film. They always say, ah, it's a sex maniac. So it's in this one They do paint a good picture of how tough Capuana's job is because of how careful he needs to be because of the high-profile People involved with the killings, you know, obviously the women who are cheating on their men It can't be known that they were cheating because all these people are kind of in high society They're very highly thought of pillars of their community all that jazz So it does give you a good feeling of how tough it is for Capuana to do his job So it really places limitations on him which kind of you know, ratchets up the tension For him and for you as an audience member The scene with Capuana paying Gaston a visit is very over the top It makes you very much sure that Gaston is not the killer Especially the moment where Gaston says, you know, you can check out my you know This this room that you were looking at the one where all the pictures are and then how proud he is of these Pictures of the dead women that he's like, are they dead or are they alive? They look beautifully the other way blah blah blah. It just it plays so hard at the creepy Out of touch guy that you just know it can't be him I guessed professor already talked about guessing Professor Casale that was his name Yeah, the exact moment. I guessed that it was him was that moment that he was saying it could not be Gaston a To Capuana just saying them well hell Hell of a fall Lily's husband has down the stairs. I thought that was kind of a funny weird thing that they had where he had the The apparatus to help him walk Lily's husband, you know Lily gets killed outside and then her husband starts trying to come down the stairs And then you just like falls but that was like I'm not gonna say there was a graphic fall but it looked like it was a Fall that probably actually hurt the guy who was the stunt guy who did the fall in all honesty And it was a pretty rough fall and I was just like oh I did not see that coming So you have a actual intentional death and then unintentional death at the same scene But Tina's fear is highlighted in an over-the-top way when she's in the elevator with the guy who's dressed like the killer I think that they kind of do go over the top with that moment like you can have that moment in the film and it makes sense like it shows kind of her Trauma that she's dealing with from seeing Lily be killed and seeing the killer and then this guy getting on the elevator Who's dressed like that, you know and then her fear She's kind of like huddled to a degree in the corner of the elevator But they drew it out so long and they made her overact it so much that yours is like, okay, you know, we get the point here You drove it home As soon as you see see Franca on the train You know she's about to get killed especially because she's already shown having had an affair That's another thing you you quickly learn within this film that any woman you see who seems well to do who is having an affair Is probably going to die And I think every single one of them does They all end up getting killed. I was thinking maybe Capuana's wife would not end up getting it But obviously in the end she does get it and I'll talk a little bit more about that later because that was kind of surprising to me One of the reasons I like the film because it was surprising For being an innocent person Person Paolo sure does like to make himself come off as suspicious when he talks with Capuana That was Franca's husband who was very standoffish with Capuana I mean, obviously he wasn't the killer and he had nothing to do with any of this But it's another one of those examples of just in Jala films. They want Certain characters or more characters to be standoffish to be suspicious to be ridiculous Creepy whatever in order to throw suspicion from the actual killer and that's the reasoning I assume for What's his name again? Paolo to be that way Very minor character. He's like barely in it. But so it doesn't feel realistic like he Especially with his wife being killed. I even though they didn't have the greatest relationship. You see that in there I'm sure he would he would have still been more apt to help Capuana with with that unless he was mainly just concerned about The information about the affair getting out there because it seemed like he was very much aware of the affairs That were going on Anyway The scene of Renata around the house is very drawn out I assume it's kind of meant to feel like she could get killed at any moment that the killer could show up in any point Especially because of the tarot card reading that she just ended up having I mean, I knew especially because of that tarot card reading Obviously for shadowing that she was gonna end up getting it But the fact that they draw it out so long, it's kind of too much they can you can draw it out for a Kind of long time and in that maintains tension because it really feels like what could happen in any moment And I have a feeling like it's coming But I just feel like they they drew it out way too long Especially because there's no music involved with it either to kind of like entertain you while she's just kind of walking around the house doing things It's like I Do like the scene of Renata trying to escape up the spiral staircase I thought that was particularly good But she must have known or I guess figured out that that's a low probability escape plan right there I guess she was just going for whatever she could find near her Not the best way to get out of there, but it was it served to be a good scene Because it looked like it was tough to climb up those stairs. I'm sure it was Interesting twist with Capuana staging an arrest and and a confession to try and anger the real killer Obviously his whole idea behind it being this is a more principled sophisticated killer so if we fake a Arrest and have someone else confess who acts like they're crazy and over the top and totally nuts Then that's going to spurn this actual killer and draw him out of hiding because he has a level of Pride that he's taking in the actual killings which is seen by the fact that he's actually leaving the photos at the crime scene He's leaving a calling card Which is showing that he's proud of what he's doing and he wants the information out there about why he's killing and Obviously that happens because then Capuana ends up getting the call from the killer Which is a very shocking Great moment that I wrote great moment when the killer informs Capuana that his wife is cheating on him And you can see it shook him to his core good acting by Capuana the guy Farley Farley Granger who played Capuana really good acting at that moment and that was a really shocking moment for me I did not see that moment coming I think it's a great twist to it because all this time Capuana is going after this killer who's killing philandering women He never considered for a moment even though we find out that there are some very strong indicators That his wife was cheating on him And I also loved just like those those flashbacks that he starts thinking about where he's like Oh, yeah with that dude Roberto I guess it didn't seem a little weird like how much she looked at him and laughed with him The fact that she was just putting on her clothes when she came out of her bedroom when I got home early And then Roberto came out after her. It's like dense dense dense dense That stuff is a little unrealistic I think they could have Woven some things in there that feel a little more realistic that he could look back on and be like Ah, yes, it was easy to miss this But the certain things like her just putting her clothes on and Roberto being there Come on man like come on But but regardless great moment when he's informed that his wife is cheating and that he she's gonna be another victim love that and Then the next one the next one The other big twist I did not see coming that was like, oh man When cabuana gets there in time to potentially save his wife, but just watches the killer kill her through the window I was like wow And so obviously he was upset enough about her cheating that he was willing to let her die as Revenge Yeah, and then his hands were clean Good ending good ending so I really did enjoy this But I also feel like there were some pacing issues towards the end of the film I'll kind of wrap up with some final thoughts here real quick Any following shots with we're kind of showing the footsteps I don't I don't know if it was just the version. I was watching on Giala realm or what But when they had like the cameraman doing following shots with characters you could kind of see like the little Impacts of the steps that the cameraman was taking which got Distracting at times. So that's one of the things I didn't like the sex scenes are terrible and clumsy in this film like just Awful sex scenes is horribly choreographed. I don't know if you think the same thing But geez like many Giala films mirrors got used in this a bunch You know either a scene of you know Starting in a mirror and then going over to the person or just showing a person through their reflection in the mirror Or my favorite is when Capuano was at Gastone's place talking to him and they're showing you the mirror They're showing you Capuano face-on But to the side you could see the mirror and you could see Gastone's reflection Looking back at Capuano in the mirror. That was a cool shot, but that gets done a lot in Giala They love to use mirrors in Giala films and no exception here This has some pretty bad pacing issues when it hits about the one hour mark up until the one hour mark I think it moves pretty well once you get there pacing starts to become a big problem It slows down considerably But then it does obviously pick up at the end But it's it's like an hour and 40 minute movie and I don't think it really picks back up until 15 minutes until the end maybe something like that. So it's a little problematic But like I said overall, I did enjoy this. It is one I would watch again I love the twist to it. Obviously so out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm giving it a very solid three star rating It's not in like my top whatever Gialos. It's not top 10. It's probably not top 15 or anything But it's a good one. 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