La Gabbia (1985)
AKA: The Trap, Collector’s Item, Dead Fright
Directed by: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Starring: Tony Musante (Michael Parker), Laura Antonelli (Marie Colbert), Blanca Marsillach (Jacqueline), Florinda Bolkan (Helene), Cristina Marsillach (Young Marie), Laura Troschel as Marianne
Country: Italy; Effed Up European Movies
Language: Italian (Eng Subs); Effed Up Italian Cinema
Runtime: 01:37:36
Plot – Spoilers:
An Italian businessman from the USA has an American name to prove it – Michael Parker and is currently involved with a divorced woman in Italy. This thing of having the US as his base seems to work well for Michael whenever he needs to walk out of a relationship. A long while back, he’d done this with a teenager and even drawn her into his sexual games involving bondage. Now as it turns out, she’s the landlady of the building where his lover stays. When the lover skips Christmas with him to take her kid out of town, Michael decides to hook up with his former conquest. It helps that she has a young daughter who seems to be giving him the eye. Suddenly, Christmas doesn’t seem such a lonely event for Mr. Michael Parker.
Random:
Fulci was set to direct this initially.
Genres: Captivity, Revenge, Sexual-Violence against Men, Older-Younger, Family, Teen-Childhood, Voyeur, BDSM situations
Okay, as an alternative to the brilliant contributions by NSDAPwasChristian and Dionysus the Rapist
(who writes his name incorrectly):
This is the third film I have seen of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, after ‘The Driver’s Seat’ and ‘The Divine Nymph’. The second film also has the very attractive Laura Antonelli. Just like ‘Collector’s Item’, given here, these films are dated, interesting at that time only because of a bit of nudity. I fail to see why this film is offered here. But, as I have mentioned before, my idea of what is ‘effed up’ seems to be different than that of the Admin(s).
“For the first time it was then easy to introduce obedience into German territory. In addition to the absolute rule of the Christian religion came the fact that knights of the racially best German blood – men from the noblest clans and proven in combat – formed a ruling class over folks and mixed-bloods racially not equal to our volk. The values of achievement and personality stood next to obedience to the Church.”
~ Heinrich Himmler, “Defender Against Bolshevism”.
I have given my life to christ, this is the real dionysus the rapist, aka the gaper. After reflection, abrahamic religions seem more accurate than any of the others, thus I switched to Christianity. I’ll still be here with you all, watching gore for artistic and educational purposes, as well as the controversal topics portrayed in these works of art.
soundtrack by ennio morricone – as usual the score is better than the film