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Director
Lucio Fulci
Cast
Florinda Bolkan
Stanley Baker
Leo Genn
Jean Sorel
Runtime
134 min.
Genre
Thriller
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Carole Hammond is tormented by a series
of erotic nightmares. The main character is always Julia Dürer, her
perturbing neighbor, a woman with an unbridled and uninhibited sexual life.
One night Carole dreams the death of Julia; when She confesses this dream
to her psychoanalyst, the physician convinces that it concerns a definitive
removal of her obsession.
But Julia Dürer really dies and the Police finds a fur and a letter-opener
belonging to Carole...
A good thriller by Fulci, realized with a better budget than the usual,
with interesting formal & emotional solutions.
Many great scenes, particularly the surrealistic ones as the repeated killings
of Julia, the delirium of Carole that races through an endless corridor,
the cronenberg-like room of the quartered dogs, with the vital organs maintained
in life by medical equipments.
The ending is really long and strange: almost all the characters are suspected
and excused. Someone is killed, someone even kills himself for self-accusing...
The breakup of the enigma is really a masterstroke: in the classical scene
of the "all the suspects on the crime scene" only a false guilty is revealed.
The true assassin is disclosed instead ten minutes later, without any tension,
in a banal dialogue.
P.S. The strange title doesn't have anything to do with the plot, so do
not wait for sirens that crawl on the walls... it is only the rambling speech
of a hippie under lsd.
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