
Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. However, he's actually only temporarily paralyzed, but the coroner fails to realize this and proceeds to prepare him for the autopsy. While Moore awaits his doom, he tries to recollect what has happened to him. It all starts when his girl disappears. He asks his friend, a local journalist, for help. They discover that this was just the latest in a series of disappearances of young prett... (Full plot summary below)
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Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. However, he's actually only temporarily paralyzed, but the coroner fails to realize this and proceeds to prepare him for the autopsy. While Moore awaits his doom, he tries to recollect what has happened to him. It all starts when his girl disappears. He asks his friend, a local journalist, for help. They discover that this was just the latest in a series of disappearances of young pretty girls in the area. Their investigation leads them to a strange high profile private club, whose affluent members practice odd ritualistic orgies and bizarre dark rites.
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| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.There's more going on here than a simple slasher film. |
| Film FrenzyMatt BrunsonWorks better as an expose of the evil machinations of aging, wealthy and power-hungry conservatives than as either a murder-mystery or a horror yarn. |
| User ReviewDwayne HGreat tourist's guide to the decadent city of Prague. |
| User ReviewMichael TThis Italian thriller often gets lumped in with the giallo films of the period, but it?s really more of a political allegory with some occult elements. Gregory Moore (Jean Sorel) is an American journalist in Prague who is found in a park, seemingly dead, and is taken off to the morgue. His mind, however, is still working; but he is unable to move and cannot communicate to the people around him. He maintains consciousness by trying to remember how he got to where he is. The narrative of his memories plays out with the kind of fatalism that you find in the best films noir, and there is a hauntingly ethereal quality that hangs over the entire film -- perched, like its protagonist, somewhere between life and death. It is not insignificant that writer-director Aldo Lado should have chosen Prague as the setting: the Prague Spring had happened only three years earlier. It was Lado?s first film as a director, but he had been Bertolucci?s assistant on The Conformist (1970) and he surrounded himself here with some of the top talent of the European film scene, such as Giuseppe Ruzzolini (Pasolini?s cinematographer), Ingrid Thulin (one of Bergman?s actresses), and maestro Ennio Morricone, whose chilling score is one of his best. |
| User ReviewPietro DThe brief parts that I felt distracted and bored(keep in mind I'm trying to do 5 other things) were certainly made up for by the rest of this movie, not to mention one of the most terrifying concepts ever to me which was the backbone of it. I won't give it away though! Seriously will have nightmares tonight from it. |
| User ReviewAl MAwesome and bizarre giallo that transcends the normal constraints of the genre with its original plot structure, yet it still maintains the genre's shock and exploitation aspects. A film that will leave you guessing up to the end and afterwards. Lado turns in a stylishly directed film that is a must for fans of the genre. |
| User ReviewBill MThis is a great and unique Giallo. Were the victim who appears to be dead has to put the puzzle together through his memories of the events leading up to his 'death' Great score too. |
| User ReviewCarlos FBeautiful, somber giallo with noir touches. Barbara Bach is sumptuous. |
| User ReviewJohn CIntriguing giallo from Aldo Lado. A journalist trapped in his own catatonic body flashbacks to how he came to be so. Prague is a fantastic backdrop to this intelligent thriller, the political subtext is well handled and not thrust down the viewers throat. Sorel is a capable lead and Barbara Bach has a pivotal supporting role. Ennio Morricone's score starts off with a sweet title theme then becomes more sinister as the story deepens. |
| User Reviewchase _this a fucking strange one. i watched this mostly because of the morricone score, which is actually a lot more understated/underused than usual. a compelling story and interesting scenery are more than enough to overcome some of the hammy acting. wish they would have done more with the ending. |