BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Scarecrow-88 Psychosexual madness from director Renato Polselli regarding a psychotic impotent psychiatrist and his equally nutty wife who obsessively loves him to the point that she allows him to nearly strangle her to death! Mickey Hargitay stars as Herbert Lyutak who preys on young women, his demented eyes crawling up their legs, crotches and necks until the urge to strangle them proves too great to resist. We see in an opening scene where he offers a young woman, barely past her teenage years, a ride home, stopping on the way, pursuing her as she runs for her life. Catching up to her, he bashes her with a branch, while gripping her throat tightly, ripping away her clothes, with a look of sheer rage on his face..the inability to have sexual contact has created a madness beyond his control. We know right away what he's capable of. After this, he nearly murders his wife, Marcia(..the ridiculously sexy Rita Calderoni), who knows about his activities. Attempting to set himself up by tipping the police on alert for the perpetrator, someone else stabs a young woman in a telephone booth. Then, a whore, who was to be Herbert's target, gathers the knife used as the murder weapon wishing to talk to him, is drowned in the bathtub of her flat after being flogged repeatedly with a whip across the body. A suspect is a voyeuristic parking lot attendant, but he's merely an obvious red herring who actually eyewitnesses the Lyutaks' maid being put to sleep by a suspect off-camera. Living with the Lyutaks is relative Joaquine(Christa Barrymore)who may in fact be Marcia's lover.All sorts of sleazy, sordid shenanigans are on display in this crazy, violent giallo with a cast who lets it all hang out, holding nothing back, their wacky characters unrestrained. Bulging eyes, rough sexual violence, and harsh behavior using all sorts of tools add to the devious fun. To enjoy this, you need to have a degree of tolerance towards tasteless acts and outbursts of insanity. Hargitay's eyes, how they chillingly stare down potential young victims, are certainly hard to forget, as are his treatments towards those unlucky ones he treats harshly. The real star is Calderoni, whose love-crazed wife harbours an unhinged passion for her man, and the film highlights certain bizarre sadomasochistic fantasies she has regarding her husband and those who live within their home. The violence isn't gory but uncomfortable to watch at times because it deals mostly with naked(..or skimpily clothed) women being mistreated. Calderoni has quite a marvelous seductive presence and I couldn't take my eyes off of her. The mystery of who else, besides Hargitay, was killing, shouldn't be that hard to figure out. It's the outrageous behavior of the central characters which dominate this film. I watched the Italian version not the American one(..which alters the story regarding a violent tour through Vietnam which shaped Hargitay's dementia).

Lee Eisenberg There are some murder and orgy scenes in "Delirio caldo" (simply called "Delirium" in English), but it seems like large portions of the movie pass with no action. It focuses on a series of murders and a certain man's possible involvement, but there's far less going on than I like to see in Euro-horror. Probably the most eye-opening aspect is the casting of Mickey Hargitay, better known as Jayne Mansfield's husband (and Mariska Hargitay's father); in a movie about Mansfield, Arnold Schwarzenegger played him.I watched the international version and bypassed the American version, so I can't comment on the differences between the two. But seriously, this is far from the best Euro-horror flick that I've ever seen. It's barely more than a way to pass time.I bet that they never imagined that the star would get played by a man who would later be in control of the world's sixth largest economy (if I remember right, California has that rank).

Troy Ros Not exactly a movie for the kiddies, I would consider 1972's Delirium to be some what of a grade B Giallo. The production is okay, the acting not bad, the dialogue average, but the violence is over the top with several grisley murder scenes. There is also way more nudity than your average Giallo. There are two versions, the American (85 minutes) and the European (102 minutes). The American version starts out with the main character, Herbert Lyutak, getting wounded in Vietnam. The movie mixes stock footage from the war with newly filmed scenes in a pretty ungraceful job of editing. But wedo learn that Herbert was born in Hungary and immigrated to the US in 1961 and joined the army in 1962. He has done three tours of duty in Vietnam and is a decorated, model soldier. He has been wounded and is being taken away in a helicopter. He is looking at a nurse and she changes into another woman who we soon find out is his wife, Marcia, played by the lovely Rita Calderoni (The Reincarnation of Isabel, Nude for Satan). Right after the credits we get to see Herbert pick up a girl in a bar and drive her out to a remote spot, chase her into a stream and then strip her and beat her to death. It's a pretty violent scene and not for the squeamish. Of course that could apply to almost every murder in this movie.The European version really is quite different than the American release and I thought it had a more coherent story. Both versions are a bit confusing but the European version is more consistant. It also skips the whole Vietnam segment which wasn't very well done anyway. The endings are both quite different as well and a couple murders are filmed differently also. I don't want to give away too much but we do know that Herbert murders a girl at the beginning of both versions and after that it is a bit of a cat and mouse with the cops who are trying to solve the murders along with Herbert who is a criminal psychologists and suposed to be helping them in the investigation. His wife starts having weird S&M dreams invloving her husband as the sadist and their maid and another woman who we later find out is her niece. Ther three women fondle and kiss each other while Herebert watches. The editing from the dreams to reality is a bit confusing and at one point early in the film Herbert does beat and cut Marcia as a substitution for sex which he can't perform with his wife. He does seem troubled about his violent tendencies and does not want to unleash his murderous ways on his wife. But he does like looking at her throat which is a very enticing part of female anatomy for him.The picture on the European version looks fine and is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen. The American version however is missing a couple sections of the original so Anchor Bay had to take some Dutch footage from a VHS copy and splice it in. So you are watching and all of a sudden the picture gets worse and there are Dutch subtitles! But we are talking only a couple minutes worth so it is pretty minor actually. There is also a recently filmed 14 minute interview with director and writer Renato Polselli and Actor Mickey Hargitay which is pretty good really. I watched the US version, then the interview, and then the European version of the film. I did have more of an appreciation for the film after the watching the interview and as I said earlier, the European version is overall a better and more coherent storyline. The US version is dubbed in English and the European version is in Italian with English subtitles. Overall not too bad if you like extreme Giallo. Not nearly as good as say, What Have You Done With Solange, or most Bava's or Argento's, but certainly worthy of $15 or so.

Boyd Rarely have I seen a film with absolutely nothing going for it... But every now and then somebody digs something out of the dungheap that makes you wonder how the hell they got the finance to put this on celluloid... And how anyone has the nerve to release this and expect people to pay for to see it... The director hasn't got a clue... It looks really bad... The story is ridiculous... The acting is non existant... But not in the way that can make these films a laugh... It's just plain rubbish... A complete waste of nearly 2 hours of your life... I can think of so many more interesting things to do in that time so have to admit after half hour I fast forwarded... But even at that speed it was just lacking in every department!!!