***SPOILERS*** Uneven and confusing slasher movie taking place in Milan Italy involving this deformed, from a severe case of hepatitis, and mentally challenged taxi driver, no not Travis Bickel, Midori played by Stato Oi. It's Midori who has a habit of kidnapping his pretty women costumers and then mutating and murdering them. It's when Midori kidnaps his latest victim Amercan fashion model Celine, Eisa Patsky, who for some strange reason has an Italian accent that her concerned sister who's also beautiful Linda, Emmanulla Seigner, gets into the act in trying to find her before she ends up as dead meat.
So far so good and it's gets even better or worse in how you look at it. That's with transplanted New york homicide detective Italian American Inspector Enzo Audifi, Adrin Brody, getting on the case. He's been involved in tracking down serial & slasher killers since he was a little boy, in Italy, and saw his mom murdered by one of them. Working as a team both Audifi & Linda track down the killer kidnapper but for some strange reason he seems to slip away from them despite his being denied, by being on the run, the medication that he so desperately needs to keep him normal. Still he's able to kidnap Linda and hold her hostage even though she has many chance's to escape from him. That's by Midori claiming that he knows where her sister is being hidden and she'll never find her alive if she doesn't go along with his wishes. Which God only knows what they are since he keeps changing them at every twist and turn in the movie.
****SPOILERS**** It's Audifi who finally gets an important lead on the killer, his doctor & hospital appointments, only to have Linda screw everything up by trying to have him get away from him and the perusing police! That's in Linda feeling that he's the only person, by knowing where she is, who save her sister Celine's life. The ending sequence has the killer meet his end by falling through a sky window and crashing to the ground ending up in a bloody mess: Just like the movie! But wait there's a big big surprise at the very end that has to do with Celine's whereabouts. But we never really get to see it in that the movie ends before she's found if she's found at all!
Director Dairo Argento's least effective Giallo movie that ironically is entitled "Giallo". Despite the blood and gore in it that's so common in Argento movies there's no suspense or sudden horror jump shots to make it effective. It just plods along to its eventual and somewhat confusing ending. As for Inspector Audifi the hero in the movie he seems to check out before the movie, and it's surprise ending, came to its conclusion. Maybe he knew that the film was a turkey and wanted out of it as soon as possible!
So far so good and it's gets even better or worse in how you look at it. That's with transplanted New york homicide detective Italian American Inspector Enzo Audifi, Adrin Brody, getting on the case. He's been involved in tracking down serial & slasher killers since he was a little boy, in Italy, and saw his mom murdered by one of them. Working as a team both Audifi & Linda track down the killer kidnapper but for some strange reason he seems to slip away from them despite his being denied, by being on the run, the medication that he so desperately needs to keep him normal. Still he's able to kidnap Linda and hold her hostage even though she has many chance's to escape from him. That's by Midori claiming that he knows where her sister is being hidden and she'll never find her alive if she doesn't go along with his wishes. Which God only knows what they are since he keeps changing them at every twist and turn in the movie.
****SPOILERS**** It's Audifi who finally gets an important lead on the killer, his doctor & hospital appointments, only to have Linda screw everything up by trying to have him get away from him and the perusing police! That's in Linda feeling that he's the only person, by knowing where she is, who save her sister Celine's life. The ending sequence has the killer meet his end by falling through a sky window and crashing to the ground ending up in a bloody mess: Just like the movie! But wait there's a big big surprise at the very end that has to do with Celine's whereabouts. But we never really get to see it in that the movie ends before she's found if she's found at all!
Director Dairo Argento's least effective Giallo movie that ironically is entitled "Giallo". Despite the blood and gore in it that's so common in Argento movies there's no suspense or sudden horror jump shots to make it effective. It just plods along to its eventual and somewhat confusing ending. As for Inspector Audifi the hero in the movie he seems to check out before the movie, and it's surprise ending, came to its conclusion. Maybe he knew that the film was a turkey and wanted out of it as soon as possible!