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So Sweet, So Dead

Original title: Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile
  • 19721972
  • XX
  • 1h 28m
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6.1/10
924
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So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
CrimeDramaMystery
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
924
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    • Roberto Bianchi Montero
    • Luigi Angelo(screenplay)
    • Roberto Bianchi Montero(screenplay)
    • Italo Fasan(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Farley Granger
    • Sylva Koscina
    • Silvano Tranquilli
    • Roberto Bianchi Montero
    • Luigi Angelo(screenplay)
    • Roberto Bianchi Montero(screenplay)
    • Italo Fasan(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Farley Granger
    • Sylva Koscina
    • Silvano Tranquilli
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    • 22User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    Sandro Pizzochero in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
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    Farley Granger and Sylva Koscina in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Ivano Staccioli in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Sylva Koscina in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Sylva Koscina in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Paul Oxon in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Krista Nell in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
    Krista Nell in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
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    Paul Oxon in So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
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    Farley Granger
    Farley Granger
    • Inspector Capuana
    Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina
    • Barbara Capuana
    Silvano Tranquilli
    Silvano Tranquilli
    • Paolo Santangeli
    Annabella Incontrera
    Annabella Incontrera
    • Franca Santangeli
    Chris Avram
    Chris Avram
    • Professor Casali
    Sandro Pizzochero
    • Roberto
    • (as Sandro Pizzorro)
    Krista Nell
    • Renata
    Angela Covello
    Angela Covello
    • Bettina Santangeli
    Fabrizio Moresco
    • Piero
    Andrea Scotti
    • Gianni
    Irene Pollmer
    • Giannina
    Luciano Rossi
    Luciano Rossi
    • Gastone
    Ivano Staccioli
    • The Liar
    Nino Foti
    Jessica Dublin
    Jessica Dublin
    • Rossella
    Paul Oxon
    • Mauro
    Philippe Hersent
    • The Questor
    Nieves Navarro
    Nieves Navarro
    • Lilly
    • (as Susan Scott)
      • Roberto Bianchi Montero
      • Luigi Angelo(screenplay) (story)
      • Roberto Bianchi Montero(screenplay)
      • Italo Fasan(screenplay) (story)
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    • Trivia
      A re-edited version released in the U.S. was called "Penetration", and featured hardcore porno footage with adult-film stars Harry Reems and Tina Russell. It was advertised as a porno featuring actor Farley Granger, who was in the original film but had nothing to do with the re-edited version. Granger threatened the distributors with a major lawsuit for the unauthorized use of his name in the new version, and they subsequently withdrew the film from US distribution, but not from Europe.
    • Goofs
      In one of the shots of the third victim lying in the morgue, she has her eyes open and she blinks.
    • Alternate versions
      The Slasher was edited into Penetration in 1976 and Farley Granger's role was changed into a porno movie watcher.

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    6/10
    SO SWEET, SO DEAD (Roberto Bianchi Montero, 1972) **1/2
    This is yet another giallo helmed by a little-known director; the suggestive but actually deceptive original title, which translates to REVELATIONS OF A SEX MANIAC TO THE CHIEF OF THE MOBILE SQUAD, would lead one to believe that this is very low-brow stuff indeed – however, the end result (propelled by a pounding Giorgio Gaslini score) is not bad at all. Besides, there is a good cast on hand: the obligatory American 'star' is once again Farley Granger (looking remarkably more mature than in SOMETHING IS CREEPING IN THE DARK [1971]), but then we have what can best be described as cameos by "Euro-Cult" regular Silvano Tranquilli and three of its luscious starlets – Sylva Koscina (playing Granger's wife), Femi Benussi and Susan Scott; all the females are made to shed their clothes, with the latter two even involved in surprisingly explicit sex scenes! Incidenatlly, along with STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER (1975; also with Benussi), this was the most erotically-oriented genre effort I have watched so far; in fact, the movie under review was subsequently re-assembled and distributed as outright hard-core material under the moniker PENETRATIONS (but Granger understandably – and successfully – sued the producers over it)! The plot sees the traditional black-gloved killer targeting a small town's apparently unending population of cheating wives (leaving as calling-card photos of them caught in flagrante, albeit with their respective partners' face clinically erased); in this respect, it also emerges as one of the more moralistic giallo entries (at least, this time around one is spared the usual pursuit of the proceeds of either an inheritance or an insurance policy!). By the way, the film even foregoes the last-minute explanation of the killer's motives which concludes (unsatisfactorily) many a giallo – though, in view of just this unexpected striving for satirical relevance (which proves rather vapid nevertheless, given the sheerly exploitative elements by which it is surrounded), here was perhaps a case where one would have liked to know what made this particular person tick (a gratuitously deranged morgue attendant had been made to fit the bill all along, but the real culprit was not too far off the mark anyway)!!
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      • July 18, 1975 (United States)
      • Italy
      • Italian
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Piazza Armerina, Enna, Sicilia, Italy
    • Production company
      • Produzioni Cinematografiche Romane (P.C.R.)
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