Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
"Murderock - Uccide a passo di danza" (original title)

The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.

Director:

Lucio Fulci

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay), Gianfranco Clerici (story),

Stars:

Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Olga Karlatos	...	Candice Norman
Ray Lovelock	...	George Webb
Claudio Cassinelli	...	Dick Gibson
Cosimo Cinieri	...	Lt. Borges
Giuseppe Mannajuolo	...	Prof. Davis
Berna Maria do Carmo	...	Joan
Belinda Busato	...	Gloria Weston
Maria Vittoria Tolazzi	...	Jill
Geretta Geretta	...	Margie (as Geretta Marie Fields)
Christian Borromeo	...	Willy Stark (as Cristian Borromeo)
Robert Gligorov	...	Bert
Carlo Caldera	...	Bob
Riccardo Parisio Perrotti	...	Steiner
Giovanni De Nava	...	Hotel Receptionist

Storyline

A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.

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Plot Keywords:

new york | murder | dance | dream | nipples | 

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Taglines:

Save the last dance . . . for hell!

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Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

April 1990 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Demon Is Loose

Filming Locations:

Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scena Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Lucio Fulci:  The talent agent who speaks to Candice over the telephone about a background check he made on George.

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Connections

Referenced in Fulci Talks: The Movies (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Are the Streets to Blame"
Lyrics and Music by Keith Emerson
Performed by Doreen Chanter

User Reviews

Flashdance + giallo = not so good

Nothing very special about this giallo. A bunch of dancers are trying out for parts, and some get murdered by a hatpin stuck into their left breast (where it looks like it would actually pierce a lung and not the heart as intended). Some of the dancing scenes are pretty sexual.

The studio where they do their dancing has a rather odd system at the end of the day whereby a voice comes over an intercom, and the lights flash on and off repeatedly. I guess this is to make for more suspense or to make the killing scenes more exciting? It's more on the annoying side.

One of the women has a dream in which she is pursued by a killer with a pin (it changes sizes throughout the dream, sometimes appearing giant). She later sees the man from her dream on a billboard. She tracks him down, finding him to be a bit of a washed up, alcoholic actor, and starts a relationship with him.

Much more than that I don't remember.