Because she looks just like his wife Catherine who left him years ago, Count Marnack
(Giacomo Rossi Stuart) invites actress Evelyn (Patrizia De Rossi), her three
friends (Krista Nell, Caterina Chiani, Lidia Olizzi) and stagehand Samuel
(Leo Valeriano) to his castle on his own private island. And before you
know it, the Count and Evelyn fall in love ...
Eventually though, Evelyn's three friends are murdered, and decapitated
too with the Marnacks' family dagger, as it it was according to the family
curse.
But who could the killer be ?
Samuel, who was rejected by one of the girls (Krista Nell) ?
Jefferson (Mario de Rosa), the estate's butler who's also a Satanist or
something ?
Gregory (Alan Collins), the Count's factotum, who seems to be quite a
brute ?
Evelyn, who might actually be Catherine suffering from amnesia ?
The mysterious Count himself ?
Nope, it's Sybil (Femi Benussi), the Count's maid who has been secretly
in love with him for years and who has abducted his wife one day the Count
was out, drugged her and locked her up and then told the Count Catherine
had left him with another man ... and now that the Count has fallen in
love with Evelyn, she made Catherine kill the girls (though for some
reason not Evelyn herself) to get the good Count back for herself alone
...
But thank God the good inspector (Luigi Batzella) has stopped by just
in time to arrest both Sybil and Catherine (who is technically the
murderer) and present Evelyn and the Count with a happy ending ...
A boring film: Actually the whole film wastes way too much time to set
up the rather simplistic situation to all of a sudden become a murder
mystery after no less than 50 (of its barely 90) minutes. Up until then
the film is nothing but a romance with a bit of softcore sex and the
occasional sloppily directed suspense scene. And once the film has arrived
at being a whodunnit it progresses way too quickly from one murder to the
next until arriving at a downright silly solution to the whole case that
seems to be more pulled out of the hat than anything else. Disappointing,
especially since the premise of the film could have been exploited much
better.
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