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Sally Jane Black’s review published on Letterboxd:
It would be much more satisfying if they didn't need a man to save the day, but this more than makes up for it by being one of the prettiest gialli I've seen (though that ain't sayin' much. I'm not as well versed as I ought to be). The beautiful opening sequence rolls into lovely Italian countrysides and magnificent mansions and vast lecture halls and, of course, wonderful violence. The film makes almost every man out to be a creep of some kind, from the delivery boy who can't stop staring to the weirdly obsessive Stefano to the Igor-like scarf-seller. Like New York Ripper, in setting up its red herrings, it goes out of its way to make men clearly slimy, smarmy, and sexist, thus positioning the murders less as exploitative violence and nudity and more as the condemning final product of that line of behavior. Or maybe I just want to think that because I love a good proto-slasher.
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