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Olivia

  • 1983
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 25min
NOTE IMDb
5,2/10
995
MA NOTE
Olivia (1983)
A woman who, as a child, witnessed her prostitute mother getting killed by a client, marries an abusive man, and is suffering from homicidal schizophrenia.
Lire trailer1:49
1 Video
77 photos
CrimeHorrorMysteryRomanceThriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWitnessing her Mother's murder as a child has an odd effect on a woman when she weds.Witnessing her Mother's murder as a child has an odd effect on a woman when she weds.Witnessing her Mother's murder as a child has an odd effect on a woman when she weds.

  • Réalisation
    • Ulli Lommel
  • Scénario
    • Ulli Lommel
    • John P. Marsh
    • Ron Norman
  • Casting principal
    • Suzanna Love
    • Robert Walker Jr.
    • Jeff Winchester
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    5,2/10
    995
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Ulli Lommel
    • Scénario
      • Ulli Lommel
      • John P. Marsh
      • Ron Norman
    • Casting principal
      • Suzanna Love
      • Robert Walker Jr.
      • Jeff Winchester
    • 16avis d'utilisateurs
    • 22avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Suzanna Love
    Suzanna Love
    • Olivia
    Robert Walker Jr.
    Robert Walker Jr.
    • Michael 'Mike' Grant
    • (as Robert Walker)
    Jeff Winchester
    • Richard
    Amy Robinson
    • Olivia, age 5
    Bibbe Hansen
    • The Mother
    Nicholas Love
    Nicholas Love
    • The Soldier
    Kenneth Robert Shippy
    Kenneth Robert Shippy
    • Eric
    • (as Kenneth R. Shippy)
    Michael Evans
    Michael Evans
    • Chairman
    Ulli Lommel
    Ulli Lommel
    • The Detective
    Judy Walker
    • The Manager
    Ron James
    • Broker
    Raymond H. Shockey
    • Man
    • (as Ray Shockey)
    Kathy Kartiganer
    • Girl
    Warren A. Stevens
    • Client
    • (as Warren Stevens)
    Clement von Franckenstein
    Clement von Franckenstein
    • Lawyer
    • (as Clement St. George)
    Eric Galloway
    • Tour Guide
    Doreen Bree
    • Buyer
    Jorge Zepeda
    • Bartender
    • Réalisation
      • Ulli Lommel
    • Scénario
      • Ulli Lommel
      • John P. Marsh
      • Ron Norman
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    lor_

    Enjoyable Hitchcockian horror cheapie

    My review was written in March 1983 after a screening in the Bronx.

    Filmed half in London and half in Arizona in 1981 with the shooting title "Faces of Fear", "A Taste of Sin" is an effective psychological horror thriller from prolific Germany-to-U;S. Filmmaker Uli Lommel. Biggest treat her for film buffs and horror fans is Lommel's equal-time raiding of not merely the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but also the Hitchcock-derived thrillers of Brian DePalma.

    Prior to its present (tacked-on to suit a sex-themed ad campaign) moniker, picture bore a series of better titles: "Beyond the Bridge", "Double Jeopardy" and "Olivia".

    Opening (culled from Hitchcock's "Marnie") has 6-year-old Olivia (Amy Robinson) watching (through a keyhole) her British prostitute mother servicing a G. I. who's into bondage. She helplessly sees her mom killed by the G. I. Fifteen years later, Olivia (played as an adult by Suzanna Love, star of all even of Lommel's U. S.-made pics) has a British husband Richard (Jeff Winchester), and dresses up at night to relive her mom's experience as a streetwalker near London Bridge. Controlled by her (imagined) mom's voice from beyond the grave, she starts killing her customers while being wracked with guilt for not coming to mom's aid versus the G. I. Olivia falls in love with Michael Grant (Robert Walker), an American working on a project to restore the bridge. In a fight with Richard over her that takes place on the bridge, Grant is victorious, and Richard ends up hurtling into the water below.

    With the film half over, scene shifts to Arizona four years later where London Bridge has been transplanted (along with its fatalistic associations for the lead characters). Grant finds Olivia working as a condominium saleslady using a new name (Jenny) and with a new mousy appearance and American accent. Suspenseful plot twists (and red herrings) involve lifts from "Vertigo", "Obsession", "Sisters","Psycho" -you name it.

    Though this type of derivative filmmaking is hotgly criticized these dys (with DePalma perhaps the number one whipping boy), Lommel plays it straight and comes up with an entertaining B picture. He obviously enjoys the Hitchcock association, even casting Vera Miles from "Psycho" in his next film "Brainwave" (opposite Tony Curtis instead of Janet Leigh) and recalling Walker (son of "Strangers on a Train" namesake and near lookalike) for the lead in "Devonsville Terror".

    Suzanna Love is quite impressive in the chameleon lead role, calling for at least three distinct personalities. Walker, still looking boyish at age 40, is an empathetic hero, though one keeps expecting him to become sinister, given Hitchcok's switcheroo casting of his dad 30 years earlier. Joel Goldsmith's synthesizer music score is effective, but the film is hampered by drab would-be film noir visuals, for which five cinematographers are credited.
    5Fella_shibby

    Better than Jade.

    I saw this for the first time recently n I still cannot fathom why I got pulled into seeing this. It's not a bad film but erotic dramas n thrillers ain't my cup of tea. Nevertheless, the lead actress' beautiful face kept me going. Suzanna Love was truly attractive n her brief nudity was an icing on the cake. Plot wise it is a bit far fetched but some scenes r pretty atmospheric. I really wanted to know how the husband survived n how he tracked her down. Also did she purposely migrate to Arizona so that she can bump into her lover.
    7christopher-underwood

    Crazy, but cool

    Variously known as, Olivia, A Taste of Sin, Prozzie and Double Jeopardy, this has as many twists and turns as it does titles. Eccentric ex art house director Ulli Lommel, writes, directs and even looks after camerawork here in a very strange film. Seemingly considered by the makers as 'Hitchcockian' there is only one decent scene of suspense and lots more that appear to have crept in from many and varied a genre. As so often with low budget fare the bonus is that you never quite know where things might go, but who expects the evil child, slasher, sexploitation movie to tell the story of the moving of London Bridge to Arizona?! Likeable, varied, ludicrous but involving with Suzanna Love helping enormously in a most convincing central role. Crazy, but cool.
    8bbjzilla

    Arizona Screaming to the bridge.

    It's hard to understand the negativity around Olivia. Yes it's completely mis-soled as a flesh and fear stalk and slash, it is in fact a sweet love story about a child escaping her damaged past with a bit of horror, social realism and domestic terror thrown in. Of course compared with Crimes Of Passion or Track 29 is lacks thy the fireworks but there are lots of little moments where the camera lingers on bridge lights or the parrots which Ulli Lommel adds to give it a strange stylish flourish. The cast (apart from Robert Walker) are universally great especially Suzanna Love in the title role, even the bit parts are played with utter sincerity and a fair amount of talent. White of the Eye is a similar film which has a much better reputation but Prozzie (Olivia or Double Jeopardy) has oodles to recommend it, in fact it's almost a precursor to David Lynch's Lost Highway without the surrealism. The only criticism, much like Olivia or Jenny, the film doesn't quite know what, or indeed who, it wants to be.
    7Thorsten_B

    A Touch of Surreality

    Somehow one is reminded of Brian de Palmas film "Obsession" when watching this rarely seen German-American production from the early eighties. Ulli Lommel, once member of Rainer Werner Fassbinders highly intellectual actors group, turned to directing when he still under Fassbinders influence, but after his mentors untimely death he finally turned to more commercial topics. "Olivia" – or "A Taste of Sin", as it is apparently also known – at first sight looks like pure (S)Exploitation, but there's more to it. As Lommel says in the short interview that accompanies the films' German DVD release, the idea of the story came to his mind when he, while on a trip with his then-wife Suzanna Love (playing the main part), found out that the London Bridge was rebuild in Arizona. He used this as the outline for a sort of identity-switch trouble-personality killer-love story – combining two places with two personalities, both of which essentially having been one from the very beginning. True, the way the story unfolds is far from cinematic brilliance, but nonetheless it is quite entertaining; and in no one way is this modern fairytale the brutal splatter film that others would probably want it to be. There are some harsh effects, and a few violent scenes are included in the aforementioned DVD as bonus (yet only the material that was originally cut out is seen, which makes some of this bonus shorter than even a second!). But sex, murder and blood, while still important for the outline, are not the main attractions. Lommel intensely tries to give his film a psychological touch. Because of his limited skills in storytelling, he does not succeed. But still: Olivias rite of passage makes for entertaining viewing, especially is you like that particular touch of weirdness, absurdity and "otherness" that so many great underground pictures from the 70s carry.

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    • Anecdotes
      Ulli Lommel and Suzanna Love found London Bridge in Arizona while preparing for Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983). Lommel started writing a story that would involve London Bridge in London and Arizona's London Bridge.
    • Connexions
      Edited into Ulli Lommel's Zodiac Killer (2005)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 4 mars 1983 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Allemagne de l'Ouest
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Mad Night
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Arizona, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Ambassador
      • New West
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    • Budget
      • 500 000 $US (estimé)
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      1 heure 25 minutes
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      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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