Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

JasparLamarCrabb A not so great giallo with a very over-inflated reputation. Giancarlo Giannini is trying to track down a lunatic who's been injecting women with the paralyzing agent of a wasp. The victim then gets to watch her own murder. While the idea is compelling, the film, directed by Paolo Cavara, is not particularly intriguing. There's very little build up to any of the crimes therefore there's no suspense. The acting is fine, particularly by Giannini as a world weary police inspector. The supporting cast includes such beauties as Barbara Bach, Barbara Bouchet, and Claudine Auger. The great Stefania Sandrelli plays Giannini's wife and Ezio Marano plays a creepy blind masseuse. The music is by Ennio Morricone.

morrison-dylan-fan With having found director Paolo Cavara second (and final) title in the Giallo Sub-genre, Plot of Fear,to be an extremely distinctive film,I was happily caught by surprise,when a very kind IMDb'er sent me a DVD of Cavara's Giallo debut,which led to me getting ready to find out how deadly Cavara's tarantula really is.The plot:Living on her own ever since a photo got secretly sent to her husband,that exposed his wife to be a nymphomaniac,Maria Zani is gripped in her apartment by a stranger who wears a long dark coat,and black gloves.Pinning Zani down to the ground as she tries to fight back in desperation,the stranger stabs Zani in the back of the neck with a needle,which contains a sedative that causes Zani to become paralysed whilst still being fully conscious.Carefully placing Zani so that she can see everything take place that she is unable to stop,the stranger kills Zani by slowly dissecting her abdomen.Arriving to the murder scene of Maria Zani,Inspector Tellini interviews Zani's ex-husband,who tells Tellini that he had not spoken to his ex-wife for 10 days.Initially suspecting the ex-husband on being the murderer,Tellini begins to fear that Zani's death was committed by a serial killer,when a woman (who like Maria Zani,was also a regular customer of an expensive bathing/massage parlour) is found murdered with her abdomen dissected,and half of a broken needle lodged in her neck.View on the film:Featuring not 1,but 3 Bond Girls in the gorgeous trio of Claudine Auger,Barbara Bouchet (who appears completely naked within the first minute of the movie) and Barbara Bach,director Paolo Cavara surprisingly keeps away from making the film look overly glamorous,by allowing this Giallo to soak up a huge amount of Film Noir atmosphere.Along with cinematography Marcello Gatti, ( and backed by a breathy score from Ennio Morricone) Cavara fully shows the poisonous world that this deadly tarantula inhabits,with all of the male characters in the film wearing post-industrial,dour grey and brown suits,with the backdrop of the city allowing for the characters lives to be filled with murky drug and sex dealings,thank to Cavara and Gatti revealing the city to be one that is rusting away and decaying at ever level,which allows for "hole's" to appear that the ruthless killer can use to their advantage.Whilst Paolo Cavara's excellent stylish directing give this Giallo a strong Film Noir foundation,the screenplay by Marcello Danon and Lucile Laks disappointingly stops this tarantula from using its killer move. With the potentially tense investigation of Inspector Tellini,the writer's make the mystery one which feels like it is building to a shocking revelation that it never quite reaches,thanks to the moments when Tellini starts to dig up the murky past of Maria Zani and the fellow guests of the bathing/massage parlour feeling surprisingly stilted,which leads to this Giallo tarantula sadly not having the full deadly bite,that it easily could have had.

Claudio Carvalho When the nymphomaniac Maria Zani (Barbara Bouchet) is murdered, her ex- husband and insurance broker Paolo Zani (Silvano Tranquilli) becomes the prime-suspect of Inspector Tellini (Giancarlo Giannini). Then the saleswoman Mirta Ricci (Annabella Incontrera) is murdered in the same modus operandi – both victims had been paralyzed by acupuncture needles with poison introduced in their necks and their bellies had been ripped open with a knife with the victims still alive, in the same way that tarantulas are killed by tarantula hawks. The police find that she was also a drug dealer, Paolo meets Inspector Tellini to tell him that he is innocent. Further, he hires the private eyes La Catapulta that finds the last man that had met Maria, the photographer Mario (Giancarlo Prete). Paolo pursues Mario but they both die and Inspector Tellini finds an envelope addressed to Franca Valentino with Mario. Inspector Tellini discovers that he was a blackmailer and meanwhile Franca becomes the third victim of the serial killer. When the masseuse Jenny (Barbara Bach) is found dead wrapped in plastic bag, Inspector Tellini goes to the massage parlor to meet the manager Laura (Claudine Auger) and he believes that an employee may be the serial-killer."La Tarantola dal Ventre Nero" is a great "giallo" with the typical structure – a serial-killer that wears gloves and the identity is only discovered in the end; the victims are beautiful semi-naked women; gore deaths; a persistent detective pursues the killer; and wonderful music score. The story is well developed, with many plot points. The very young Giancarlo Giannini works with very beautiful women, three of them future Bond girls (Claudine Auger and the Barbaras Bouchet and Bach). The great music score of Ennio Morricone completes the work of the director Paolo Cavara. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Ventre Negro da Tarântula" ("The Black Belly of the Tarantula")

Rindiana Moderately watchable by-the-numbers giallo without the stylishness and flamboyant set-pieces of the best ones, but, fortunately, without the excessive absurdities and logical flaws of the worst ones either. (Though there's still enough silliness and idiocy left intact to keep the most fervent genre fan satisfied; not to mention the exploitative attitude giallos are notorious for.) After a strong first half hour, the plot loses momentum up to a lame denouement, followed by the usual ridiculous psychobabble.At least, the pace never flags and the actors are above average.3 out of 10 see-through killer gloves (for a change)