Nelle pieghe della carne (1970)

Director:

Sergio Bergonzelli

Writers:

Sergio Bergonzelli (screenplay)
Mario Caiano (idea)
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Release Date:

2 May 1970 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | Horror

Plot:

The guests of a villa are killed off one by one by their hosts. Incest, decapitations and a cyanide bath feature amongst the other bizarre delights.

Plot Keywords:

Decapitation | Blackmail | Incest | Governess | Cyanide

Cast

Eleonora Rossi Drago	...	Lucille
Pier Angeli	...	Falesse / Ester (as Anna Maria Pierangeli)
Fernando Sancho	...	Pascal Gorriot
Alfredo Mayo		(as Alfredo Majo)
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
María Rosa Sclauzero
Víctor Alcázar
Giancarlo Sisti
Gaetano Imbró
Luciano Catenacci		(as Luciano Lorcas)
Bruno Ciangola

Directed by
Sergio Bergonzelli

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sergio Bergonzelli		screenplay
Mario Caiano		idea (as Mario Cajano)
Fabio De Agostini		idea
Fabio De Agostini		screenplay

Produced by
Sergio Bergonzelli	....	producer

Original Music by
Jesús Villa Rojo

Cinematography by
Mario Pacheco

Film Editing by
Donatella Baglivo

Art Direction by
Eduardo Torre de la Fuente

Costume Design by
Giuseppe Cesare Monello		(as Cesare Monello)

Makeup Department
Fernanda De Rossi	....	makeup artist
Alfredo Tiberi	....	assistant makeup artist
Luciano Vito	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Luciano Catenacci	....	production manager
José Antonio Pérez Giner	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ferdinando Merighi	....	assistant director
Juan Ignacio Galvar Viches	....	assistant director

Art Department
Giuseppe Aldrovandi	....	assistant art director
Horacio Rodríguez	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Pietro Ortolani	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Ettore Corso	....	assistant camera
Antonio Maccoppi	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Antonio Fusco	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Rosanna Brasile	....	continuity
Fabio Ceccarelli	....	production coordinator
Félix Moreno	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• MGB Cinematografica
• Talía Films (co-production)

Distributors

• Cinefear (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Hispamex (Spain)
• Salvation Films (2000) (UK) (VHS)
• Severin Films (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• V.E.P. (????) (Greece) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | Italy:VM18

Filming Locations:

De Paolis Studios, Rome, Italy

Company:

MGB Cinematografica

WOW. Fan-f'in-tastic, Melodramatic, Nonsense!

This movie is completely over the top! Why and how it escaped getting played around the world, on the midnight circuit, is beyond me. It's like someone made a soup out of a Spanish Soap Opera, a Giallo, Gothic Thriller, and a Film Noir... It's loaded with ridiculous double crosses, kinky incest (is it incest?), countless decapitations, pet vultures, plot twists that make little to no sense, random Freudian Psychology, and extraneous WWII Concentration Camp flashbacks! The score is over-dramatic, as is the acting, and just about everything else. It certainly can't be taken seriously, but that's what's so appealing. Don't be fooled though, if it's the Classic Bava, Martino or Argento-esque formula you're looking for, that's not what you'll get. Despite that it is often listed and cited as a Giallo. This movie came out in 1970, when the genre was just beginning to take root, so while it's certainly got all of the necessary elements to be classified as 'Gialli', the elements are scattered, appearing in different places in the plot than is common to the traditional Giallo formula. That said, it could be of interest to hardcore fans in that respect. That's how I came upon it, and I'm not upset. Think something along the lines of Luciano Ercoli's "Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion" or even Lucio Fulci's "Perversion Story," only much more ridiculous! Wonderfully ridiculous, psychedelic and melodramatic. Wow.