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La polizia brancola nel buio

  • 1975
  • VM18
  • 1h 27min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,9/10
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La polizia brancola nel buio (1975)
CrimineFantascienzaMisteroOrroreThriller

Durante uno scoppio di violenti omicidi nella zona che prendono di mira giovani donne, un giornalista alla ricerca di un'amica scomparsa finisce in una villa di proprietà di un eccentrico fo... Leggi tuttoDurante uno scoppio di violenti omicidi nella zona che prendono di mira giovani donne, un giornalista alla ricerca di un'amica scomparsa finisce in una villa di proprietà di un eccentrico fotografo.Durante uno scoppio di violenti omicidi nella zona che prendono di mira giovani donne, un giornalista alla ricerca di un'amica scomparsa finisce in una villa di proprietà di un eccentrico fotografo.

  • Regia
    • Helia Colombo
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Helia Colombo
  • Star
    • Joseph Arkim
    • Francisco Cortéz
    • Richard Fielding
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,9/10
    624
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Helia Colombo
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Helia Colombo
    • Star
      • Joseph Arkim
      • Francisco Cortéz
      • Richard Fielding
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    • 10Recensioni della critica
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    Joseph Arkim
    Joseph Arkim
    • Giorgio D'Amato
    Francisco Cortéz
    • Alberto
    Richard Fielding
    • Dottor Stefanelli
    Alberto Gasparri
    Alberto Gasparri
    • Edmondo
    • (as Danny P. Gerzog)
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    • Lucia
    Roberto Travaglini
      Elena Veronese
      Elena Veronese
      • Sara
      Halina Zalewska
      Halina Zalewska
      • Eleonora
      Sonny Crowell
      Daiana Murpy
      Margaret Rose Keil
      Margaret Rose Keil
      • Enrichetta Blond
      • (as Margaret-Rose Keil)
      Erika Fisher
      Erika Fisher
      • Victim
      Stefano Oppedisano
        Giorgio Dolfin
          • Regia
            • Helia Colombo
          • Sceneggiatura
            • Helia Colombo
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          5Bezenby

          The Police Don't Turn Up Until The Last Five Minutes

          What a bizarre mess!

          We begin by seeing a woman having her car break down and getting a pair of scissors in her neck for her trouble, which then leads to a shot of a deranged man tending a lettuce patch and chuckling. We then cut to another young lady who breaks down and calls her boyfriend to get help. He's says he'll be right along, but neglects to mention he's in bed with another girl. Naughty, fella, naughty!

          This guy is Marcello and every single female member of the cast wants to tug his tummy banana. Marcello does eventually head off to pick up his girlfriend, but not before she receives a pair of scissors to the neck (although she's given time to strip off for the camera of course). Marcello is confused when he discovers his girlfriend's car is still around, so he's unsure where she's disappeared to, and instead he ends up at a villa full of very emotional people/suspects.

          There's the afroed-wheelchair scientist who has perfected a machine that can print out peoples thoughts (which it does by taking pictures via the eye of a gold statue situated in the dining room!). His wife, who suffers from 'Erotomania', whatever that is - she just seems pissed off that she lives in the country, and their neice, a blonde, sexually repressed girl who lives in terror of her uncle and seems to be the main subject of the thought machine. Plus, there's the doctor who looks after the scientist, the giant gardners guy, angry butler Alberto and yet another sexually repressed maid who has the hots for Marcello, and everyone else for that matter.

          This film looks like it cost about five lire to make and even though there's plenty of nudity to keep you awake, an interminable dinner party in the middle almost derails the whole thing. Luckily the thought machine and a novel death for the killer goes in its favour. Of course the killer's motives don't make much sense and there's a couple of extra twists at the end because...you know...it's a giallo. Got to have twists!
          7Red-Barracuda

          Fans of very strange cinema need only apply

          A reporter agrees to meet a model friend at an isolated villa. Turns out she's been stabbed to death by an unknown assassin. The owner of the villa is a wheelchair-bound man who has invented a device for photographing thoughts. Typically for these types of movies, the house is also populated by a selection of other oddballs and eccentrics.

          The Police Are Blundering in the Dark is a bargain basement yet extremely strange giallo. It opens with a half-naked woman being chased by an unseen assailant and then being stabbed to death with a pair of scissors. But from hereon in it just gets stranger. The very idea of a machine that photographs thoughts is of course ludicrous. Its nearest giallo equivalent would be the ridiculous eye device in Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet. But that's where the comparison ends, as this flick is hardly on the same level as Argento's one. It is a somewhat bizarre entry in the giallo sub-genre it does have to be admitted and for that alone it deserves at least some recognition. But it's strictly a movie for Euro-trash connoisseurs, it's not even going to necessarily appeal to giallo enthusiasts as it's a little bit too clunkily offbeat for its own good.
          6andebuchs

          Blundering all around

          "La Polizia brancola nel Buio" (The Police are blundering in the Dark) occupies a place of honor among the bizarre gialli. Even for a Giallo, "La Polizia brancola nel Buio" is quite strange: the film begins with a bang; a girl is driving on a road and suddenly a flat tire forces her to stop by the road. She looks around and sees someone nearby, and she asks him to help her in changing tires. He promptly goes there to help her and the girl says: "molto gentile" (that could be translated as - very nice of you). Suddenly the face of the girl changes from a smile to an expression of terror; the stranger had a pair of scissors in his hands, and starts running after her with murderous intentions. She runs through a forest, hitting branches, and losing one by one her upper clothes, till her tits are bare, it's then that the killer reaches her and slashes her throat. Sex and violence!

          After a while, there's another girl on a road, and she's forced to stop her car in front of an inn, her car must be fixed, and to crown it all, rain starts to fall, a heavy rain. Will this girl survive the inn? Well, anyway, this girl is wet, she wants to get dry, so she warms herself by the fireplace, but not before taking all her clothes off. It seems that there's someone in the room, or is it just imagination? These two girls and other ones had been going to a villa nearby to make photo shoots. This villa is inhabited by odd characters; many film scenes are filmed inside its walls, the characters do nothing much, they dine, talk, play cards, and there is the owner of the villa that invented a camera that photographs thoughts… and so on. There are many people who think that this part of the film is boring, but I haven't felt this way – the dialogues are completely over-the-top, and things are weird and ridiculous. And just don't forget – there's a killer on the loose.

          This film could be cool, if the director had some sense of style, but no, the death scenes and everything is kind of pedestrian. I think that the only way of breaking the limits of a low budget is through the imagination, and this (in a way) is something the filmmaker lacks, but the film is so uneven, incoherent and amateurish, that it has some strange kind of charm. Why? I don't know. I've seen this film twice already.
          3kayrannells

          Remarkably Boring Giallo

          Talky, nearly gore-free, and overlong at under 90 minutes, The Police Are Blundering in the Dark might be one of the least interesting giallos ever made. While most giallos aren't known for their award winning scripts or realistic dialogue, there's usually a little style or sleaze to keep one's interest, but this film is too coy and pedestrian to keep one's attention.
          3kannibalcorpsegrinder

          A generally underwhelming and problematic genre effort

          Following her strange disappearance, a man begins looking into his girlfriends' strange arrival at a small town that eventually leads him to a remote house occupied by a series of bizarre figures with a deadly secret that eventually brings a killer to the house knocking them off one by one.

          This was a maddeningly ineffective and problematic giallo. Among the few positive points with this one is the ability of the film to at least work in the traditional genre elements somewhat effectively enough throughout here. The series of stalking scenes here aren't that bad, with the opening attack of the victim by the side of the road or a woman getting stalked in her bedroom while being spied on undressing and taking care of herself before going to bed, offering up some rather intriguing elements familiar with the genre. Both offer up clunky if still somewhat extended chase scenes featuring the unsuspecting victims going about their lives before running into the madman and being knocked off in silly-yet-brutal fashion featuring a slew of suspenseful stalking tactics and some fine nudity in the process. Other scenes, like a garden-set stalking scene or the killer taking out a victim in gruesome fashion before leaving the bloodied body to drown in a bathtub, make for equally sleazy and graphic encounters that set the stage for the wild finale that bring about some inventive twists for its positive points. Beyond that, there's just not much to this one that works. The main factor to be had here is the interminably boring and dull setup that has almost nothing at all interesting happening for long stretches. The whole idea of the disappearance taking place nearby and him coming to her aide to try to find her is a decent enough hook, much like the later investigation that turns up the family living in the remote house where he starts looking into the truth but it has just nothing all that exciting happening during this time. Dealing with a skeevy gardener making uncomfortable eyes at the young daughter, a scientist trying to make do with his latest discovery while being confined to a wheelchair, and the multitude of side characters that populate the house should've been a recipe for something to happen as he makes his way through the family uncovering what happened. Instead, everything is just undeservedly bland or drags on interminably with the outright worst of it being a dinner sequence that offers up nothing of any interest about anyone and never seems to end even with the notion of them being spied on the whole time. The other factor to this one is the general air of cheapness over everything here. The villa where everything takes place could've had some atmosphere but it's way too bright and cheerful to be effective at generating an air of danger, the flimsy effects give themselves away at nearly every opportunity with the outright goofy manner of their execution trying to look intimidating, and the whole presentation of the fabled machine that gets involved here is a straight mystery as we get nothing about what it is or how it works. The concept of the machine is such that it stretches credibility with how it even manages to catch the killer in the first place, and trying to place the actual figure doing the crimes at the point they were committed is a stretch at best and a gaping plothole at worst as it involves time-travel to pull off. It all comes together into one of the more underwhelming and bottom-tier gialli in the period.

          Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Language, and sexual scenes.

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            The movie was originally shot in 1972 under the title "Il giardino delle lattughe" (=The salad garden), but not released until 1975 when it was retitled "The Police Are Blundering in the Dark", a title that was possibly chosen because at that time 'poliziotteschi films' were more popular than 'giallo films'.
          • Blooper
            When Giorgio tells Edmondo that Enrichetta Blond has gone missing, Edmondo reacts stunned, open-mouthed, lips immobile, but the audio is heard saying "Another one!"
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            Intertitle Card: [superimposed over Innkeeper's son, laughing at the lettuce patch] Mankind differs from beasts due to an incurable evil: intelligence.

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          • Data di uscita
            • 1975 (Italia)
          • Paesi di origine
            • Italia
            • Turchia
          • Lingua
            • Italiano
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            • Il giardino delle lattughe
          • Luoghi delle riprese
            • Arezzo, Tuscany, Italia
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            • O.I.S. Cinematografica
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