Review: Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Frustrated author (Luigi Pistilli) spends most of his time hosting booze-soaked orgies at his family estate, and being a general abusive arsehole to his wife (Anita Strindberg). The black cat roaming the estate doesn’t treat wifey very kindly, either. Complications arise with a couple of murders taking place on castle grounds, and the sudden arrival of Pistilli’s niece (Edwige Fenech). The latter will spark an arousal in both Strindberg and Pistilli. As much as I love Italian horror, the more I delve into giallo the more I think I might not be on board with this side of the Italian horror aisle. This 1972 Sergio Martino ( “Slave of the Cannibal God” , “Torso” – a decent giallo) film is one of the big misses. It’s well-acted but I don’t understand its popularity at all, it’s boring and filled with people I didn’t remotely care about. It’s not even very stylish, which isn’t something I often say about this subgenre. I didn’t pick the killer, but I also didn’t care enough to t...