Original Title: Delirio caldo AKA: Delirium | Death at the Villa Scene Title: unknown Release Date: 5 July 1972 (Italy) Runtime: 102 minutes (1:41:43) Country: Italy Language: Italian Subtitles: English (hardcode) Genre: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Cult
Italian filmmaker Renato Polselli (aka Ralph Brown) wrote and directed this wonderfully sick and demented giallo thriller, a shining example of the sort of outrageous psychosexual perversity for which the genre has become cherished by cult enthusiasts. Former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay was already a sleaze favorite for his turn as Il Boio Scarlatto and his disingenuously tearful tour of his late wife's estate in The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay only solidifies that image here as Prof. Herbert Lyutak, a perverse sex maniac employed as a criminal psychologist. Lyutak is first seen giving a young woman a ride in his car, eventually attacking her and chasing her through the woods to a creek, where he beats her to death. Lyutak's wife finds his bloody shirt, but because there is another murder while the demented shrink is consulting the police, he is cleared. Working with the authorities, Lyutak has a family friend pose as a prostitute to catch the killer, but he simply murders another hooker not far away. The bodies continue piling up, with so many alibis and confusing contradictions that it soon becomes apparent the killings are the work of several hands. Polselli keeps the sleaze factor high throughout, notably in some psychedelic nightmare sequences featuring Lyutak's fantasies of torturing nude women in his basement and in the murder of [the prostitute], which features some fairly graphic whipping and kinky sexual allusions. There's also lesbianism, strangulation, and an interesting synth-rock score by Gianfranco Reverberi to keep viewers interested, and the ultimate conclusion is -- in keeping with the title -- a delirious, bloody battle between three psychopaths in a cellar. That's only in the original version, however, because the American re-edit removed most of the sleaze, changed the setting from England to the United States, and added two extra murders and a police shootout, not to mention some dubious Vietnam flashbacks. The ultimate entertainment value to genre enthusiasts, therefore, is highly dependent on which version they see, as the extensive changes reduce a wild, flamboyant shocker to just another dull mystery. Gaetano Cimarosa and Stefano Oppedisano co-star. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide / AllMovieBlog
haddad say: - friends, another giallo one. bad luck women is the victim again. - is original uncut, uncensored, Italian version (not U.S version mention in synopsis!); but DVD is have both version (so him good for buy; also pay back for enjoy! ) - please no confuse with giallo one direct by Lamberto Bava (Delirium, aka Photo of Gioia, 1980) - i think i is do more upload all weekend. but, mmmm. then they freeleech at asia torrent. so i think stop upload. i is maybe go asia torrent for the 6 days and spend all JeF's month bandwidth. i is think most leecher guy already is go there before for get pinku one. i is watch so many hundred movie 2010 my eye is square shape; must get lot more movie because still 3 more 2010 month.
Shoutout big "hi" to all euro torrent upload guy. greet!