Spasmo
Directed by:
Umberto LenziScreenplay:
Umberto LenziCinematography:
Guglielmo MancoriComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall, Ivan Rassimov, Maria Pia Conte, Adolfo Lastretti, Monica Monet, Guido Alberti, Rosita Torosh, Tom Felleghy (more)Plots(1)
Christian (Robert Hoffman) and his girlfriend are taking a walk on a deserted beach when they discover a woman's body lying. A closer look proves that she's alive. The next day Christian meets her again at a yacht party and they fall in love. Later at a nearby motel, something weird happens as they prepare to go to bed together: An intruder breaks in and starts beating Christian who accidentally shoots him with his own gun. A few hours later they find out that the corpse is missing and a series of weird incidents takes place. (official distributor synopsis)
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Umberto Lenzi may not have been a top-of-the-line filmmaker, but he managed to make a few notable contributions to the Italian Giallo movie genre. Spasmo is not even a typical Italian Giallo movie (the first murder takes place after about an hour), the plot is quite roughly hewn, and strangely jumps around, from scene to scene. Also, the behavior of the characters is sometimes quite WTF. Spasmo is actually rather a bizarre movie in many ways. In any case, at the end we find out that the disorienting structuring of the film actually makes sense in terms of the main character's development, and whether it was creatively intentional or not, it consolidates the mysterious atmosphere, where we really have no idea what is going on.
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