Good Giallo full of vicious killings , suspense and eerie events . This genuinely mysterious story deals with the ambassador's wife (Edwige Fenech) who discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband named Neil Ward (Alberto De Mendoza ) , a sadistic ex-lover named Jean (Ivan Rassimov) or her new lover named George (George Hilton ) , the handsome cousin of her friend Carol- may be a grisly serial killer . Several murders happen in Vienna with bloody and gruesome executions . There a razor wielding slasher is killing women and some clues seem to implicate about anybody are dying . Julie's husband Neil is away frequently , so George pours on the charm . She also meets both are newly rich , thanks to an uncle's death . Jean, her brutal previous lover , immediately contacts her , certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice , but she rejects him . Meanwhile , the series killer goes on a real massacre on various unfortunate victims as a woman is slashed , another attacked in her apartment. Slowly more people are found dead and a police inspector investigates the strange killings with numerous suspects . Heaven help whoever is... "Next!".Did you read about what happened to the poor girl in the shower?... Always unseen... unheard... until he reached out to touch and caress! He's out there killing them one by one...Who is next? .
Sergio Martino's great success is compellingly directed with well staged murders plenty of startling visual content , including translucently pale turquoises and shimmer red when the killings take place . This is a classic slasher where the intrigue , tension , suspense appear threatening and lurking in every room , corridors and luxurious indoors and outdoors . This suspenseful movie is with plenty of thrills , chills , high body-count and glimmer color during the murders in lurid pastel and deep orange-red with phenomenal results . The movie belongs to Italian Giallo genre that was created by Mario Bava along with Riccardo Freda (Secret of Dr. Hitchcock, The ghost , I Vampiri) , they are the fundamental directors of this peculiar style . These Giallo movies are characterized by overblown use of color with shining red blood, usual zooms , and utilization of images-shock . Later on , it appears the great Dario Argento (Deep red , Suspira , Inferno) , another essential creator of classic Latin terror films . Sergio Martino's so-so direction is skillfully crafted , here he's less cynical and more inclined toward violence and lots of killings . It's an Italian-Spanish co-production financed by Eduardo Manzanos Brochero , the reason for appearing Spanish actors as Manuel Gil , Alberto De Mendoza , Miguel Del Castillo and Italians as Edwige Fenech , Ivan Rassimov , among others . Colorful and evocative cinematography by Emilio Foriscot who photographed splendidly Vienna , Sitges , Barcelona, Catalunya , Spain . Very good and thrilling score by Nora Orlandi .
The picture was well directed by the prolific filmmaker Sergio Martino . Talented and versatile writer/director Sergio Martino has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, comedy , Western , and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years . He was especially an expert on Western as proved in ¨Mannaja¨ and ¨Arizona returns¨ and Giallo as ¨The case of scorpion's tale ¨ , ¨Torso¨ ,¨The scorpion with two tales¨ and of course ¨The strange vice of Mrs Ward¨. Rating: Good , this is one more imaginative slasher pictures in which the camera stalks in sinister style throughout a story with magnificent visual skills.
Sergio Martino's great success is compellingly directed with well staged murders plenty of startling visual content , including translucently pale turquoises and shimmer red when the killings take place . This is a classic slasher where the intrigue , tension , suspense appear threatening and lurking in every room , corridors and luxurious indoors and outdoors . This suspenseful movie is with plenty of thrills , chills , high body-count and glimmer color during the murders in lurid pastel and deep orange-red with phenomenal results . The movie belongs to Italian Giallo genre that was created by Mario Bava along with Riccardo Freda (Secret of Dr. Hitchcock, The ghost , I Vampiri) , they are the fundamental directors of this peculiar style . These Giallo movies are characterized by overblown use of color with shining red blood, usual zooms , and utilization of images-shock . Later on , it appears the great Dario Argento (Deep red , Suspira , Inferno) , another essential creator of classic Latin terror films . Sergio Martino's so-so direction is skillfully crafted , here he's less cynical and more inclined toward violence and lots of killings . It's an Italian-Spanish co-production financed by Eduardo Manzanos Brochero , the reason for appearing Spanish actors as Manuel Gil , Alberto De Mendoza , Miguel Del Castillo and Italians as Edwige Fenech , Ivan Rassimov , among others . Colorful and evocative cinematography by Emilio Foriscot who photographed splendidly Vienna , Sitges , Barcelona, Catalunya , Spain . Very good and thrilling score by Nora Orlandi .
The picture was well directed by the prolific filmmaker Sergio Martino . Talented and versatile writer/director Sergio Martino has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, comedy , Western , and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years . He was especially an expert on Western as proved in ¨Mannaja¨ and ¨Arizona returns¨ and Giallo as ¨The case of scorpion's tale ¨ , ¨Torso¨ ,¨The scorpion with two tales¨ and of course ¨The strange vice of Mrs Ward¨. Rating: Good , this is one more imaginative slasher pictures in which the camera stalks in sinister style throughout a story with magnificent visual skills.