I watched it under the title The Dark is Death's Friend.
Not to bring up Video Nasty again, but this is crazier than the friggin' Mansion of the Doomed. This had as much blood as that and this has a rape scenes, so you know, why was this not a Nasty?
I want to try to find a picture of the excessive 70s house that's in this movie. With a yellow living room that had weird see through plastic columns and designs everywhere, this was something else. It made me realize that a lot of the Nasties did not feel specifically 70s... or early 80s? Maybe it was the ridiculous stuff going on in those movies, or maybe just incidental. Something to think about.
This movie has a killer on the loose get tapped by a man to get rid of the man's wife. The serial killer tracks her down, rapes and kills her. He puts the body in his trunk, and soon enough his car gets stolen! Now the killer is after the people who stole his car, while in the meantime, the police are getting involved in the murder of the wife.
This movie was more of a thriller than a traditional Giallo. It has no fetishization feel nor wonky electronic score, and instead almost feels like a character study. In that, it is fun and it moves okay, there is actually not a lot to say about it beyond that early 70s house. Unfortunately that doesn't retain throughout the movie, otherwise I'd give it an entire star higher. As is it can have a 2.5
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