CIRCLE OF FEAR is a late stage cop thriller from the writer/director combo of Dardano Sacchetti and Aldo Lado. Both men were prolific during the heyday of the genre in the 1970s, when Lado in particular was well known for unusual and classy gialli like SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS and WHO SAW HER DIE? Sadly, both men have little to work with in this silly and lacklustre outing, which is a pure exercise in box-ticking and nothing more. American import Michael Woods gives a nothing performance as a cop hunting drug traffickers, but because that plotline is so very slim there's also a gialloesque murder mystery which picks up towards the climax. The budget is below low and the resultant film is stilted and forced, particularly when it comes to the OTT sound effects of the many shoot-outs.
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