Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

joekohlertrenton When I heard Mario Bava wrote the screenplay and that this was something of a body count giallo, I bought the DVD expecting a typically atmospheric '60s Italian film with great thrills, suspense and early gore. Maybe I expected too much.A terrific opening title theme, "Nightmare," gets things off to an exciting start. Unfortunately, the film then bogs itself down in endless footage of squirrelly, bland females acting silly and flaky (behavior that is endearing to women but annoying to men). At long last, a few of them then endure some of the mildest, least violent and tidiest "deaths" ever seen.This is not a brutal shocker like the earlier, "Blood and Black Lace." If anything, an irritating, bouncy humor persists throughout, leading me to suspect this was intended for the Sunday matinée crowd.Some of the older cast members are quite good, including the aforementioned Damon. Michael Rennie shines in a later role and the school administrators are all suitably mysterious.Not great, not bad, just so-so. While away a couple of hours with it, if you're in the right mood.

BA_Harrison Next to 'Strip Nude For Your Killer', 'Naked You Die' is my favourite title for a giallo: none of that baffling 'Seven Eyeballs for a Lizard's Belly' nonsense, just the promise of some good old fashioned gratuitous nudity and murder. Unfortunately, unlike 'Strip Nude...', this one doesn't manage to live up to its lurid title, offering only fleeting glimpses of bare female skin and mostly bloodless kills; in addition to the disappointing lack of sleaze and gore, it also manages to fall flat in the narrative department, with a humdrum plot and a twist ending that can be seen a mile off.Pretty redhead Eleonora Brown stars as Lucille, one of a group of sexy young students stalked by a leather-gloved killer at an exclusive girl's school. As the bodies pile up, and the list of possible murderers grows longer, Lucille decides to leave the school in the company of her lover, riding teacher Richard Barrett (Mark Damon)—but even he, it seems, is not above suspicion. However, quite how anyone fails to work out who the killer is from the outset is beyond me: Ms. Clay (Ludmila Lvova), with her weird, androgynous features and masculine voice is so freaky that she might as well wear a T-shirt with 'Murderous Psycho' emblazoned on it, and it comes as no surprise when it is finally revealed that 'she' is actually a 'he', and 'he' is the one who has been bumping off the girls.On a more positive note, director Antonio Margheriti does his best to please the eyes and ears with his beautiful and stylish photography, a bevy of lovely young ladies, and a wonderfully kitschy 60s soundtrack (which includes a rather cool Bond-style theme song), but in the end, the eye candy and jazzy score are simply not enough to compensate for the uninspired storytelling, absence of intrigue, and of course, the woeful lack of nudity.

MARIO GAUCI While this is quite a popular giallo – thanks largely to its sensationalistic title and the fact that the film was originally conceived, as CRY NIGHTMARE, by Mario Bava – its reputation is rather mixed and, having watched the thing for myself, with good reason! Not only is there barely any nudity (with the violence being similarly tame!) but the plot itself – despite the much-used girl-college setting (among the picture's myriad alternate titles are SCHOOLGIRL KILLER and THE MINISKIRT MURDERS!) – is fairly weak…references to Alfred Hithcock's PSYCHO [1960] and Bava's own THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH [1963] notwithstanding or, for that matter, its own affinity with another far superior effort from Margheriti himself, SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT'S EYE [1973], and Dario Argento's PHENOMENA [1984])! Besides, the whole giallo atmosphere is further nipped in the bud with an overwhelming light touch courtesy of a vivacious girl student who fancies herself a sleuth! Of course, the script supplies plenty of red herrings – with at least three characters made out to be the possible killer – but the revelation at the climax brings little surprise (while admittedly effectively handled); the attempted murder at the pool, however, is simply ludicrous. The film is nevertheless good-looking, features a kitschy score by Carlo Savina (shamelessly borrowing the instantly-recognizable riff from Neal Hefti's "Batman" theme!) and a reasonable cast – including ex-Hollywood leading-men Mark Damon and a rapidly-aged Michael Rennie (as the Police Inspector on the case), Luciano Pigozzi (the Italian Peter Lorre as the school's peeping-tom caretaker i.e. the type of role he could play in his sleep) and, it goes without saying, a bevy of attractive females, on both the student and teacher fronts – a lesbian undertone is even implied in the relationship between the middle-aged headmistress and her young assistant and a newly-arrived teacher sports androgynous features! – but especially put-upon heroine Eleonora Brown (who had actually been Sophia Loren's victimized daughter in Vittorio De Sica's award-winning TWO WOMEN [1960]!).

lazarillo This is interesting giallo-style Italian thriller similar to the later horror masterpiece Suspiria but without the supernatural elements, and the schoolgirl giallo What Have You Done to Solange? but with less sleaze (in fact, it seemed like the edited version shown in the US didn't even have any nudity in it). It's very hard to find these days, but worth finding. It's a very seminal film if nothing else. The first bathtub murder was borrowed verbatim for the murder of the Cristine Galbo character in Solange. I'm pretty sure the morbid joke of the killer keeping the first body around right under the nose of the later victims inspired Black Christmas, which in turn inspired Halloween, and after that the deluge. (In fact, much of the later US slasher subgenre could easily be traced to two Italian films--this one and Mario Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve). And certainly no one can deny the influence on Suspiria. While it probably wasn't the first horror movie/thriller to be set in a girl's school or girl's dormitory, it might have been the first to fully the exploit the psycho-killer and "Ten Little Indians" possibilities of this creepy setting. If you like this movie(and you speak Spanish), also check out the contemporary Spanish horror/thriller, La Residencia which is very similar.