Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
AKA: Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave; Excite Me!; Gently Before She Dies; Eye of the Black Cat
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Starring: Anita Strindberg (Irina), Luigi Pistilli (Oliviero), Edwige Fenech (Floriana), Ivan Rassimov (Walter), Angela La Vorgna (Brenda)
Country: Italy; Effed Up European Cinema
Language: Italian; Effed Up Italian Movies
Runtime: 01:36:39
Genres: Killer, Girl-on-girl, Violence Against-Animals, Incest
Plot – Spoilers:
Loosely based on the Poe story, The Black Cat.
A degenerate writer Oliviero lives in a derelict manor with his wife, getting high on the decay that surrounds him. He clings to the memory of his dead countess-mother through her black cat. The cat is charming and snarls and wails in empty rooms with a passion that pleads – take an axe to me. Which is what the wife Irina would like to, only she’s too terrified of Oliviero’s cruelty to abandon her role of the long-suffering wife.
Oliviero is bitter, especially about youthful people, and considers them useful only for their sexual value. So he’s kind of happy when his niece comes over to stay with him. And she’s quite the kitten. Meanwhile, the bodies are falling. Oh, forgot to mention that. This is a ’70s giallo.
Who else noticed where Kubrik’s The Shinning took its inspiration from?
oh my god that plot twist was everything. i love floriana’s makeup and all the random dramatic shots of irene’s face when she is gasping in fear or just being generally hysterical. fav part was the close up shot of the cat eyeball popping for sure
Didn’t like Edwige’s short wig.
It’s good. It’s 51 years old. It’s a little silly but the girls are gorgeous.
had to stop watching after the singing – only thing of note was the guy was in for a few dollars more – now theres a movie
What a cool car, anybody knows which brand is that? Looked like an old Bugatti to me.
Nice Some more giallo here ! 🙂 . Im pretty huge fan of the good giallo oldies and Sergio Martino has a few good ones. Seen Torso you have on this site the one first of him just found like ok .Not bad but neighter one i found a classic . This one thou i sure do..
Otherwise most all Dario Argento movies i like .Still kinda funny me and many i know got to like Argento in rumor he was like the king of Giallo almost …. Well only his movies from like 68-75 was so…. But of his giallo classics my fav has to be The Bird With The Crystal Plumage on his later NOT giallo then Suspiria , Phenomena & many more….
Ok enought about that . Know ya not take movie request here so ….
But happy to find a few good giallo`s here now ….