Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio
Directed by:
Lucio FulciScreenplay:
Lucio FulciCinematography:
Silvano TessiciniComposer:
Carlo Maria CordioPlots(1)
The financially strained and increasingly desperate, Lester Parsons (50s matinee star Brett Halsey), concocts a brilliant get-rich-quick scheme; cruise the lonely hearts adds for rich women to fleece. Too bad then, that Lester is also a psychotic cannibal who enjoys mutilating these lovelorn souls, via his trusty chainsaw, and using their flesh for his dinner. When a copycat killer threatens to bring him down, Lester must do all he can to prevent this new killer's sloppy work from ruining them both. (88 Films)
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Little gore, lots of boredom. A simple story of a gigolo with a "specialty" in widows who have a few things in common: they all have various physical defects (e.g. pronounced beards), they are all rich and all, or both, are murdered. The script, of course, is practically nonexistent, the performances are also poor, and all the gore, such as a body dismembered with a chainsaw or a head roasted in a microwave, takes place within the first twenty minutes. For the rest of the hour, nothing happens, the viewer is just constantly presented with how nervous the main character is, full of fear of being caught, and the boredom lasts and lasts and lasts until the end.
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Touch of Death is a film that impresses with its humor and its lightness. It's evident that Fulci mainly filmed just to film and to have fun. The story is simpler and it is more of an anecdote, but I think the author managed to convey what he wanted. If you don't mind gore scenes, I think you'll have a pretty good time with it. The film quickly flies by, which is also nice.
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