La mort a pondu un oeuf

Original title: La morte ha fatto l'uovo

1968
16
1h 45m

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5.8/10

1.9K

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The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory - which is genetically engineering boneless chickens - is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.

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The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.

Director
- Giulio Questi
Writers
- Franco Arcalli
- Giulio Questi
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Giulio Questi
Writers
- Franco Arcalli
- Giulio Questi
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This is the second pairing of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin in a film in the giallo vane, the other being "I Am What I Am" the previous year.

Goofs
In the first slasher scene, the knife blade doesn't show any blood till after 7 slashes.

Quotes
Anna: Honest women have got to dress like prostitutes and surprise their husbands in order to keep them. What good is a woman who can't hold onto her husband? She's got to fight for him! It's worth fighting for, isn't it?

Connections
Featured in Ultimate Poliziotteschi Trailer Shoot-Out (2017)

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Featured review

"Playboy Poultry In Smoking Jackets! At A Poultry Party!"...

Sort of an absurdist giallo, DEATH LAID AN EGG is about wealthy chicken farm owners, Anna (Gina Lollobrigida), her husband Marco (Jean Louis Trintignant), and their secretary, Gabrielle (Ewa Aulin). Life on the farm is blissful, in spite of Marco and Gabrielle's affair. Of course, neither of the women know that Marco is a serial killer.

Indeed, this is a strange, trippy film, bordering on the psychedelic. The "experimental" music soundtrack -which sounds a lot like someone slamming their face into a piano, while torturing a hyena with a violin- is reminiscent of that heard in A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY.

A perfect example of EGG's lunatic charm comes during a party, where the participants pile all of the furniture into the middle of the living room, and take turns entering another room in order to be "totally honest". This, having something to do with human / chicken behavior (!).

Anyone expecting a straightforward, logical story line might find this to be an excruciating experience. Aside from all of the 60's flash, it suffers from extreme tedium.

However, poultry lovers will rejoice aloud, as our feathered friends are featured quite prominently throughout! Beware of the hideous, pulsating, wingless, headless, mutant, monster chickens! Their gushy deaths will haunt you forever!...