A masked maniac is going around town killing women and raping them (in
that order), and all police inspector Kemal has to go on are the first
letters of the dead women always matching the first letters of the
districts they were killed in - as if the killoer was trying to send a
message via his murders. However, the police is running suspiciously low
on suspects, all they have to go on are the dead girls' boyfriends, each
of whom has a motive and none has an alibi - but only for the killing of
his respective girlfriend ... While investigating, Kemal has met and
fallen in love with Oya, the widowed sister-in-law of Kenan, the boyfriend
of the first murdered girl, and they soon start dating. Oya has been
adopted by Kenan's mother after the death of her parents and later married
Kenan's brother, who three years ago died in an accident. Only now that
she has come over her loss thanks to Kemal does Kenan confess his love to
her though. To bring some light into the affair, Kemal decides to round
up all the suspects (this being the dead girls' boyfriends and a pererted
peeping tom) and see if the killer strikes again, so as to see if the
culprit is among the suspects. But wouldn't you know it, the killer really
does strike again, which relieves them all of suspicion, including Kenan.
Back home though, Kenan, learning that Oya wants to move out and live with
Kemal, he turns violent towards her ... and all of a sudden, she finds
herself pursued by the masked killer ...
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Rather stylish serialkiller-thriller that looks and
plays remarkably like an Italian giallo - but what's remarkable
about that is that in 1967, the giallo-genre itself was still in
its infancy, which makes Woman Despiser a genre pioneer rather than
just another attempt to tag along a popular genre. The movie though is not
only interesting from a film-historical point of view but also on its own
terms, as it is an atmospheric and creepy piece of genre cinema that might
feature a few too unlikely plottwists and might give away the culprit much
sooner than it ought to, but it's still an entertaining little movie
that's definitely worth watching.
After having spent an eternity virtually unknown to movie-lovers in the
West, this film has been
made available to the film-loving public (in a limited edition) by the
good folks from
Onar Films
.
Besides the movie with English or Greek subtitles and the obligatory
biographies, filmographies, photo gallery and trailers, their DVD also includes
a movie poster and a documentary on Turkish Science Fiction Movies.
To put it short: This DVD's a must-have!
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