Autopsy (1975)
"Macchie solari" (original title)

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Director:

Armando Crispino

Writers:

Lucio Battistrada, Armando Crispino

Stars:

Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Ray Lovelock

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mimsy Farmer	...	Simona Sana
Barry Primus	...	Father Paul Lenox
Ray Lovelock	...	Edgar
Carlo Cattaneo	...	Lello Sana (as Carlo Cataneo)
Angela Goodwin	...	Daniela
Gaby Wagner	...	Betty Lenox
Massimo Serato	...	Gianni Sana
Ernesto Colli	...	Ivo
Leonardo Severini	...	Caretaker
Eleonora Morana	...	Eleonora
Antonio Casale	...	Inspector Silvestri
Giovanni Di Benedetto	...	Head Coroner
Maria Pia Attanasio	...	Aunt Elvira
Pier Giovanni Anchisi	...	Archivist at Criminal Museum (as Piero Anchisi)
Pupino Samona	...	Doctor with beard (as Pupino Samonà)

Storyline

Simona Sana is a young pathologist whom works in a morgue in Rome, Italy which gets with with a wave of violent suicides which are attributed to a summer heat wave. Driven to exhaustion from the intense heat and the long hours worked, Simona struggles to complete her college theses about natural deaths when one suicide victim is brought in the morgue in which a young Catholic priest named Paul Lenox who identifies the corpse as his sister, but that did not commit suicide, but was murdered and set up to look like a suicide. Simona teams up with Father Lenox to solve the mystery and stay one step ahead of a mysterious killer who now begins to stalk her when Simona gets a little too close to the truth of the suicides.

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Plot Keywords:

suicide | morgue | student | death | corpse | 

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Taglines:

There is one horror that goes beyond the living dead!

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Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

June 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Victim

Filming Locations:

Autodromo di Vallelunga, Campagnano di Roma, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Clodio Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min 85 min (edited) 100 min (uncut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992)

User Reviews

Very fascinating and puzzling giallo.

Armando Crispino's "Autopsy" is a very fascinating and puzzling film,which both amuses,grosses out and confuses.This is surely one of the most complicated giallos ever made.After watching it,I'm still very confused about how everything fits together in the plot."Autopsy" is not a horror film-I'd rather call it a giallo with some horror elements.There is plenty of sleaze and nudity,so fans of Italian exploitation should be pleased.The score by always reliable Ennio Morricone is excellent.The acting is very good with Mimsy Farmer("Camping del Terrore","The Black Cat","The Perfume of the Lady in Black")giving an outstanding performance as a forensic pathologist Simona.A must-see for fans of Italian giallos.