The Cat o’ Nine Tails
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Filmed in Turin and Rome.
Characters
- Franco Arno (Karl Malden, blind puzzle-maker)
- Lori, his niece (Cinzia De Carolis), later in several extreme films:
- Libidine [ IMDB ] – About a human/snake genetic experiment she has sex with. Considered pornographic-adjacent.
- Night of the Devils [ IMDB ] – A gore fest about a family of vampires. Looks disgustingly interesting, but the reviews aren’t that positive.
- Cannibal Apocalypse [ IMDB ] by Antonio Margheriti (who directed the incredibly groovy sci-fi flick Wild, Wild Planet [ IMDB ]) along with Giovanni Lombardo Radice who was in Ruggero Deodato’s notorious Cannibal Holocaust
- Carlo Giordani, reporter (James Franciscus, also in , Night Slaves), later in
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes [ IMDB ]
- Night Slaves [ IMDB ] – Who’s source novel was in my first batch of pulp sci-fi that I read and distributed around the world.
- Dr. Calabresi (Carlo Alighiero, also in The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh) engaged to Bianca Merusi
- Bianca Merusi (Rada Rassimov)
- Anna Terzi (Catherine Spaak), I randomly found praise for the Luca Sabatelli dress she wore in the film from @rachael_nisbett on Twitter.
Ennio Morricone soundtrack. Free jazz.
Blind reporters working together. Killer’s irises (not eyes) in tight focus before he kills. Standard POV camera for killer. Keen-eared blind man.
Franco and his niece Lori walk by a car, he takes note of the man for some reason. Later someone breaks into the nearby genetics institute but steals nothing. The police and the executives suspect industrial espionage.
Calabresi is murdered.
Dr. Calabresi tells Bianca that he knows who broke in, but he is pushed in front of a train the next day before he can tell her.
Photographer is murdered.
The police think it’s an accident but Carlo is contacted by Franco who tells him to get an un-cropped photo. It shows Calabresi being pushed. The killer gets to Carlo’s photographer friend, kills him, and steals the negative.
Franco and Carlo are on the case. Carlo goes to visit Prof. Terzi and afterwards spars with Anna. They go on a joyride through the city and she loses the cops who are tailing them. At a rooftop bar she provides background biographies of all involved in the genetics company and tells him about a secret drug they’re working for a government research project. The drug will test whether people have criminal tendencies. She sends him to speak with Prof. Braun at The St. Peters Club (a gay bar). Braun steers him away from the investigation.
Bianca is murdered.
Franco goes to see Bianca and Lori notes that she nervously pulls at a locket around her neck. After they leave, she calls Franco and Carlo as they are discussing the case and tells them she knows killed Dr. Calabresi. She plans to meet them but is killed after their call ends.
The killer sends Franco and Carlo a letter saying that they are now a target.
Carlo inteviews several the the doctors at the institute. A mysterious figure injects poison into milk cartons delivered to his door. Post-sex with Anna, he realizes the threat and slaps the milk out of Anna’s hand.
Braun is murdered.
Carlo and a criminal friend break into Terzi’s house and discover in hidden documents that Dr. Terzi adopted Anna “Marini” (now Terzi). Carlo prints a story that Braun is a suspect in three murders. An anonymous visitor tells him were he can find Braun but when Carlo arrives Braun is dead.
Carlo and Franco go to Bianca’s grave to search the amulet. There, Franco struggles with the killer and wounds him. After, the killer abducts Lori and threatens to kill her if they tell anyone about it. They go to the police and head to the lab for the final confrontation.
Further distractions after researching:
Carolis’s later film Libidine is described in an IMDB review:
It certainly somewhat predates Japanese Genki-Genki videos.Tons of sleaze and naked female flesh including graphic sex,lesbian intercourse,masturbation and some bizarre acts of bestiality.7 out of 10
And so, I had to look up Genki-Genki. Assuming it was tentacle porn I was more correct that I could’ve hoped. First, Film Review: Genki Genki 18 from HNN (graphic pics):
And I’ve now been reviewing “extreme” cinema here at Horrornews.net for four years, and not a single film has been “too much” for me. Until now…
I gotta say, I’m somewhat curious. Second, from Perverted but beautiful by Cakehead Loves Evil (virtuosic oil paintings):
Monica Cook paints BEAUTIFUL and very disturbing portraits of women featuring niche sexual imagery such as genki genki (it involves bugs & insects) & the sexualized eating of food. Many of them also reflect the squid porn feature, which is this blogs most highly viewed post ever. To be honest if these were photographs I think I would be a bit ewwwwwwww, but as amazing paintings I adore them…