Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)

The Worst Film Ever

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Despite the crassly exploitative title, which offers up unimaginable sleaze and depravity, STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER is actually a rather straightforward and down-to-earth giallo yarn, albeit one littered with nudity and gory violence. The plot kicks off with a nasty abortion, followed by a woman's body being dumped in a bath (!?!) and soon enough a string of graphic slayings are taking place. The killer this time around is an asexual figure in a motorbike helmet who slashes their usually naked victims to death. This work of trash is directed by Andrea Bianchi, best known for his zombie epic BURIAL GROUND, working with a bigger budget than usual and displaying a certain visual flair not seen in his later work.As is usual for the genre, the dubbing is unbelievable and the characters rather cheesy, including an obese womaniser who only finds love from his blow-up doll! The acting is unmemorable but the cast attractive, especially the female performers who spend most of their scenes in the nude. Edwige Fenech takes the leading role, giving the film a female protagonist for a change, and makes quite an impression. The use of a fashion house as a setting for the murders recalls Bava's BLOOD & BLACK LACE but this is far from the intricate masterpiece of that movie; instead, this is an occasionally confusing but mainly solid giallo enterprise offering plenty of exploitation and a minimum of intelligence. The gore effects are cheap but plentiful. Fun for genre connoisseurs, unfulfiling for others.

'Nude per l'assassino' is a seldom example of a Seventies-sleaze film, able to put its lavish amount of nudity in the shade of a thrilling plot.In other words: never mind all nudity, for in its tense and plot-building 'Nude per l'assassino' is truly first-class. Reminding us of Hitchcock.Being Italian, it goes without saying that its tasty & well-chosen picturing adds pretty much to your pleasure of watching. In spite of being done in the cheap, even to Seventies-standards.However, the most important weakness of this film is the quality of its acting. In this you recognize its B-status, in which 'Nude per l'assassino' was meant to be shot. As I said, it comes out much better.

When a model unexpectedly dies during an abortion procedure, the doctor carrying the operation out phones for help and sets it up to look like the girl died of natural causes. Shortly after this, the doctor is brutally murdered outside of his home. And so begins a string of brutal killings, all connected by a modelling agency named Albatross. One of the main suspects is Carlo (Nino Castelnuovo - who had previously starred in The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg and Rocco And His Brothers), and slightly sleezy and ambitious young photographer who we first meet hiring a model and then trying to sleep with her in a steam room. He begins to date photographer Magda (Edwige Fenech), but can he protect her from the vicious killer who seems to be bringing down Albatross single handedly?For all the perverts out there, this is possibly the greatest film ever made. For an apparently up-market modelling agency, the models seem to get their private parts out a hell of a lot. Well I suppose they had to get the audiences in somehow, as the film has very little else going for it. Even for a giallo, the dubbing is atrociously bad. The best they could come with for the killer is to dress him/her up in a motorcycle costume and helmet. And for all the usual style of the giallo genre, the scenes of violence and gore are disappointingly tame and bloodless (and when there is blood, it's clearly just paint!). No suspense is built by the quite boring set-pieces, and the director seems to think the longer the set-piece, the more tense it will be. Another case of great title, crap film.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

The Milan fashion world is rocked by a serial killer, wearing leather gear and motorcycle helmet, stab-killing those involved with Albatross studio..it coincides with the unfortunate accidental death of a model receiving an illegal abortion. Carlo Bianchi(Nino Castelnuovo)is a very successful photographer enjoying the sexual kicks you receive from being a big-shot in the industry. He literally beds one gal he suckers into a sauna not but shortly after meeting her, promising of a healthy career as a model(..naked nearly the entire film, Femi Benussi shows she's unafraid to bare it all for the audience for almost her total screen time), but she'll, like others, gets stabbed multiple times after discovering the water faucets running in her employer-to-be Gisella Montani's(Amanda)abode. The constant with all these killings revolve around Gisella..her heavy impotent husband(Franco Diogene), her homo-sexual photographer Mario(Claudio Pellegrini), and eventually herself are targets for the mysterious homicidal maniac. Gisella is also being black-mailed by someone in her inner circle(..of the remaining still alive). Others will follow as Magda Cortis(Edwige Fenech, whose character is an apprentice to Carlo)and Carlo become civilian detectives with their own lives endangered in the process.As mentioned in practically every user comment, "Strip Nude for Your Killer" lives up to it's lurid title. Ample nudity from uninhibited actresses, the lives of those associated with the fashion world(..particularly those who will do anything to gain success and fame)are skewered and every character in the film embellishes in sex and hedonism. Fenech delivers the usual tasty nudity and looks fantastic even with a short hair cut. Her lover Carlo is the complete anti-hero, he treats Magda like a sex toy, even choking her not once but twice. He was one of those who left the dead model's body left in a tub with running water(..the image of this dead model is displayed quickly before every murder scene takes place with the director letting the viewer know that this is the motivation behind the stabbings). The stabbings themselves are often gushing wounds, but the final attacks show the aftermath of a castration and breast removal, pretty potent, shocking stuff. There's even some sad humor portraying Gisele's portly husband(..who is quite a danger driving on the roads of Milan with director Bianchi's camera following with a POV shot of the car passing through endless traffic, red lights, and even threatening civilians walking on the streets)as a clown in heat who can not deliver in the clutch. Nice job by Blue Underground bringing giallo fans a print of true quality and the film looks great..with good use of color and sound photography, Bianchi really provides the film with style. Yet, this isn't particularly any different than the endless chain of gialli circling the market, so to combat this Bianchi put naked flesh across the screen almost through the film's entirety. This giallo does have your typical wacky twist revealing why this killer is so viciously killing his/her victims, but this time, the revelation might be underwhelming considering it's a person who isn't as significantly drawn as other characters in the plot. This is indeed a true treat for those with an appreciation for smut. Film suffers for not having a likable character to root for, but Fenech once again portrays the endangered character in pursuit(..and being pursued)of the killer.