"Giallo a Venezia" is known as the sleaziest, most violent giallo out there. That means it is believed to feature content even in excess of "New York Ripper", so that is a pretty tall claim.
Having just watched it for the second or third time, I don't know if it deserves this reputation. It only really has a couple of notable violent moments, and the sleaze is limited to interminable softcore-like scenes that seem to take up the majority of the movie.
But about those violent scenes. They are, indeed, pretty nasty, including a scene where a prostitute is murdered by having her vagina repeatedly stabbed with a pair of scissors, and another scene where a naked woman's leg is sliced off, the knife cutting through as easily as if the flesh was three day old ham.
However, if you're looking for extreme violence, there's not enough of it here to satisfy you, and nor are the endless sex scenes very interesting.
Gialli were generally dazzlingly plot-driven, with lots of twists and turns that were often hard to predict. This one barely has any plot. It concerns a tedious investigation of the central murder carried out by a man who eats hard boiled eggs in every scene, and flashbacks to the murdered couple, detailing how the ugly, gay-Phil-Spector looking husband forced his wife into weird sex.
I didn't even realise that these were flashbacks at first. The movie sets them up so badly you can't tell.
In fact, the whole movie is badly structured. It's an unpleasant mess.
Having just watched it for the second or third time, I don't know if it deserves this reputation. It only really has a couple of notable violent moments, and the sleaze is limited to interminable softcore-like scenes that seem to take up the majority of the movie.
But about those violent scenes. They are, indeed, pretty nasty, including a scene where a prostitute is murdered by having her vagina repeatedly stabbed with a pair of scissors, and another scene where a naked woman's leg is sliced off, the knife cutting through as easily as if the flesh was three day old ham.
However, if you're looking for extreme violence, there's not enough of it here to satisfy you, and nor are the endless sex scenes very interesting.
Gialli were generally dazzlingly plot-driven, with lots of twists and turns that were often hard to predict. This one barely has any plot. It concerns a tedious investigation of the central murder carried out by a man who eats hard boiled eggs in every scene, and flashbacks to the murdered couple, detailing how the ugly, gay-Phil-Spector looking husband forced his wife into weird sex.
I didn't even realise that these were flashbacks at first. The movie sets them up so badly you can't tell.
In fact, the whole movie is badly structured. It's an unpleasant mess.