Review of Spasmo

Spasmo (1974)
5/10
Sibling Rivalry
4 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS**** "Spamso" starts rather innocently with Chris Bauman, Robert Hoffmann,helping out this woman that's fully clad Barbara, Suzy Kendell, who passed out on the beach from sunstroke who suddenly runs or drives out on him. Leaving a clue to where she is going to "Tucania" a large yacht down by the bay he meets her and fall heads over heels for Barbara who-Can you blame him- has a striking resemblance to the future and later fatal British Princes Diana. Staying at a local motel and ready to jump into action or under the covers Chris is told by Barbara to shave off his saggy beard before she has anything to do with him. Which leads to him being attacked in the bathroom-while shaving off his beard-by this hit-man Tatum, Adolfo Lastretti, who's always seen playing with his steel balls, like the crazed captain in the film the "Cain Mutiny", who after a life & death straggle Chris kills Tatum with his own gun.

The rest of the film has Chris as well as Barbara on the run from who knows who since it's discovered that Tatum survived being shot or even more strange that he never existed since only Chris, not the local police or even Barbara, can prove that he killed him-in self defense- and has absolutely no proof of doing it! With all the running that Chris as well as Barbara are doing in the movie from what seems like invisible forces they encounter in Barbara's artist friends villa where their chilling out this couple Malclom & the zombie like Clorinda, Guido Alberti & Monica Monet, who claim that they rented the place and threaten to call the police to get the two evicted and arrested for trespassing!

***SPOILERS*** This entire mess of a movie boils down to Chris' past when he was a young boy who together with his older brother Fritz,Ivan Rassimov, attended their father's, Tom Felleghy, funeral that Malcolm covered as a newspaper reporter. It's Malcolm who always felt that it was Chris who murdered his father and has been secretly following him ever since to prove his point so this encounter with him at the villa wasn't an accident! What later come out is that Tatum as well as Barbara are actually working for Chris's brother Fritz who wants to have him hospitalized in a mental institution before he does any damage to himself or anyone else. And that plan by Fritz soon backfires with Chris, in a long flashback sequence,ends up murdering some dozen women including Barbara before he's stopped and gunned down by the police! As for Fritz the "Good" son he soon realizes that he's just as crazy as his late brother Chris since they share, from their equally insane and homicidal dad, the same genes or personalities!
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