Wild overwrought nonsense
Wild overwrought nonsense.
It's Sergio Bergonzelli's best-known film. And for good reason. He threw in everything and the kitchen sink. While the film is not graphic by the genre's standards, it incorporates many taboo and wild concepts like incest and childhood trauma. There's even an exploitation scene about the Holocaust.
It's all here. Does it all make sense? No. It's a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing. Even if one could adequately summarize the plot, you wouldn't believe it anyway. It's almost comic in its absurdity.
Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pier Angeli, and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba play the central characters of the dysfunctional, murderous family at the heart of the film. No one stood out as being particularly good. Many of the scenes are over-the-top, and there was a good bit of overacting.
At the end of the day, if you like oddities, give it a try. But this one just didn't come together for me.
It's Sergio Bergonzelli's best-known film. And for good reason. He threw in everything and the kitchen sink. While the film is not graphic by the genre's standards, it incorporates many taboo and wild concepts like incest and childhood trauma. There's even an exploitation scene about the Holocaust.
It's all here. Does it all make sense? No. It's a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing. Even if one could adequately summarize the plot, you wouldn't believe it anyway. It's almost comic in its absurdity.
Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pier Angeli, and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba play the central characters of the dysfunctional, murderous family at the heart of the film. No one stood out as being particularly good. Many of the scenes are over-the-top, and there was a good bit of overacting.
At the end of the day, if you like oddities, give it a try. But this one just didn't come together for me.
- dopefishie
- 6 apr 2025