
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Verona, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired strange... (Full plot summary below)
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Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Verona, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
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| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIndulgent title it may have, but everything else about this fine, tight, tense movie is the very opposite of indulgence. |
| CineVueChristopher MachellA story soaked in corruption, violence and twisted sexuality. |
| San Diego CityBeatGlenn Heath Jr.Giallo is often about keeping characters (and audiences) off balance. Your Vice... does so with effortless glee, embracing the frazzled and warped headspace of people who believe they are immune to fate's spiteful sense of comeuppance. |
| User ReviewCinema DIncredible Giallo, Worthy of a purchase and some serious "alone time" spent with the visions of Edwige Fenech in your head. |
| User ReviewPavandeep SI prefer The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh much more, but this film is also fantastic, an intriguing thriller exploring many of the more lurid and sexual topics common to Italian cinema during this period. |
| User ReviewWilliam Byou've got it all here: stellar cast featuring a perfect role for Edwige Fenech and an outrageous performance by Luigi Pistilli, finally a male actor up to the task in hand; some top-class sleaze; a twisty satisfying plot; some gorgeous cinematography; an astounding baroque Bruno Nicolai soundtrack.... oh, and a black cat |
| User ReviewAl MIt's just a whole mess of plot holes, but all of them are nicely lit and the camera guides the viewer around each one until ... did I see an anthology movie where only one story ended? |
| User ReviewR.John XInspired by Poe's "The Black Cat", this film starts with a slow, kinda boring pace. Suddenly, the screen is lightened by Edwige Fenech, here playing the slutty and clever niece. Taking advantage of the couple she easily corrupts them both with first physical (what Fenech's always been extremely good at), then mental depravity. But nothing is what it seems, and the final 15 minutes give a new perspective of the machination behind the killings. Worth seeing because of her interpretation and the title itself. |
| User ReviewFrazer CSergio Martino does a giallo version of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat'. There's lots of nudity - Edwige Fenech is on fire here. It's eccentric - the hippy sing-a-long? And what about that title? |
| User ReviewLouis DBorrowing several motifs from Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Black Cat." Sergio Martino constructs a masterpiece by joining this narrative foundation with lesbian sex and expertly done giallo techniques. What transpires is a purely original horror film with detestable characters begging you to find its moral center. |