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Afer lovemaking in their car, a couple is brutally murdered by a
masked maniac. a friend of them, Carol (Conchita Airoldi) is also
strangled soon afterwards, when she is leaving a party of drugs &
sex, strolling alone through the woods. Her friends at the university
are understandably worried, especially Danielle (Tina Aumont) who knows
she has seen the scarf that would identify the killer somewhere but has
forgotten where. It doesn't get any better when she remembers who she
thinks wore the scarf again - Stefano (Roberto Bisacco), a weird admirer
of her who sometimes even gets violent.So she decides to spend the
weekend at a country villa owned by her uncle with her friends Ursula
(Carla Brait) & Katia (Angela Covello), while Jane (Suzy Kendall),
another friend of hers, decides to first clear things up with Stefano
& then join them. However she doesn't seem to be able to locate
Stefano & so heads for the country herself - but unfortunately, so
does the killer. But who could the killer be - Stefano ? The country
doctor Roberto (Luc Merenda), who seems to take a little too much
interest in the girls ? Or even Danielle's uncle, who is suppoed to be
in PAris - but is he ? However, we soon learn it can't be Stefano, since
he shows up at the villa's doorstep - quite dead. & since the killer
is already here, he decides it best to do some more killing &
slaughtering all the girls, too, except for Jane, who went to bed early
& who he didn't knopw was around too. The next day, Jane is pretty
shocked by the corpses of her friends she finds in the living room, but
even more so when the killer returns to the villa to saw apart the
bodies to better bury them. Luckily she is able to hide from the
villain, but once he leaves again, she has to realize she is locked in
... & while she desperately tries to attract the attention from just
about anyone, the killer does come back (sawing up three bodies is a
rather time-consuming job after all), & he becomes more & more
aware of the presence of someone else in the house, until he finally
finds Jane ... & he turns out to be - Franz (John Richardson),
Jane's boyfriend and art-teacher, who kills because of some childhood
trauma, & now he has to kill Jane, who he thought pure &
perfect, too, but luckily it is then that Roberto stops by the house
again & can finally throw Franz off a cliff. Extremely
well-done giallo that doesn't relie on the whodunit element too heavily
- the solution of which is rather disappointing anyways - but has an
extended suspense-scene with the main girl locked in with the killer as
its center-piece, that draws the movie away from the otherwise rather
familiar plot. Plus, the direction of the movie is very atmospheric
& creepy, with Carol's murder in the woods being a particularly
well-done sequence.
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