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A fashion model, Valentina, participated in a pharmacological experiment which was supervised by Prof.Donatti. But during the experiment, she impermanently got some kind of extrasensory power and unwillingly saw a middle-aged man murder a young woman. And because a journalist, who recorded the whole experiment, sensationally wrote an article about the witness, the murderer realises Valentina saw his-or-her crime... This is the third Giallo film by Luciano Ercoli and, sadly enough, I have to say this one is pretty disappointing partly because it is nothing but an ill-organised comedy-tasted film full of stupidities and therefore it has neither Giallish tensity nor intensity, and partly because it simply lacks originality. For instance, the weapon the killer pseudo-characteristically uses in this film is the same thing as the killer in L'ARTIGLIO BLU (1968) used. Overall, although this 1973 film is not the worst, it is much worse than LA MORTE CAMMINA CON I TACCHI ALTI (1972) which is the director's second Giallo.

A successful businessman, Paolo, has a beautiful wife named Simona whom he profoundly loves in his own way. But he isn't and can't be happy because Simona is the nymphomaniac who is busy with extramarital intercourse, and Paolo sometimes dreams of killing her. And now a young man named Marco interferes their (or better to say, his) married life, and the three cumulatively begin to think how to eliminate one's own obstacle... This is rather small-scaled but unique Giallo film. It is unique mainly because its leading figure is a nymphomaniac whom Antonella Murgia characteristically plays. And the most impressive element this film has is nothing but the Giorgio Gaslini's unforgettable music which adequately expresses the sexual tensions between the heroine and her men, and beautifully colours and heightens the film's psychological dimension. Overall, this film is neither particularly excellent nor violent but still above-average Giallo which has the uniqueness, and seems to be suitable at least for the die-hard Giallo lover like me.

Eldora, Colorado. There are two young couples, namely, Danny, the award-winning snowboarder and his lover Christine, and Greg, the award-loosing snowboarder and his new girlfriend Lesley. And the four go to the villa of Danny's uncle. And in the city of Boulder, Colorado, there is a group of bank robbers, namely, Tyler, Marcus and Marvin. They kill sixteen people in the bank and, after Tyler executes Marvin for the wrong information about the bank, go to the problematic villa in Eldora...

First of all, it should be stressed this action film is laughably cheap and therefore neither building nor vehicle is cinematically destroyed. When the robbers wildly machine-gun in the bank, the building is, strangely enough, not damaged at all. And when the snowmobile is close to the explosion point, it transforms into a toy. And the screenplay is so unrealistic that every civilian character in this film knows how to use the bazooka, and every weapon has countless bullets. To make matters worse, the direction is too naive to make any kind of suspense, cinematography is TV-like, music is amateurish, dialogue is stereo-typed, and acting is simply bad. For good or bad, this film has two young actresses, namely, Christine Shinn and Chasity Hammons, who play almost opposite types of post-feministic girl. And partly because the two are not desirably beautiful, and partly because their acting is pretty bad, it can be said they have some familiarness rather than attractiveness. But that's all this film has, and even their familiarness is too weak to make the film recommendable.