- Actors: Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski, Angela Bo, Sergio Doria, Attilio Dottesio
- Directors: Joe D'Amato
- Writers: Joe D'Amato, Claudio Bernabei, Romano Scandariato
- Producers: Oscar Santaniello
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: Dutch
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Filmfreaks
- DVD Release Date: 4 July 2003
- Run Time: 92 minutes
- ASIN: B0002NAZ7I
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,050 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), Uncut, SYNOPSIS: Tranquil America of the early twentieth century is the setting for Joe D'Amato's (billed here under his real name, Aristide Massaccesi) first plunge into the sex and horror genre, in which he would go on to be somewhat of a pioneer. The film opens with a mournful man by the name of Frans doting over his sister Greta's lifeless corpse. Caressing her enticing frame, a flood of memories overcomes him as he recalls the many warm experiences he had with her. However, his composure soon turns vengeful, as he recalls her last days and the hands at which her fate was sealed. The film truly begins with an elongated flashback playing out in Frans' mind, where Greta, her horse carriage taking a nasty spill and leaving her unconscious, soon becomes at the mercy of the nearby neighbors. She is soon laid up in bed and examined by a mysterious physician, Dr. Sturges (Klaus Kinski) and diagnosed with amnesia. Stripped of her memory, Greta recuperates in the Good Samaritans' household and eventually befriends her caretakers and becomes an integral part of their elitist society. In addition, she manages to win the hearts of a married couple, Walter and Eva. Not only does Greta break their marital vows, but a strange chain of murders begins to crop up around the mysterious guest as she continues her stay. The explanation to such mysteries includes no more than supernatural revenge, medical science that can bring back the dead, and many hallucinatory twists and turns challenging the coherency of the tale's fabric. ...Death Smiled at Murder ( La Morte ha sorriso all'assassino ) ( Death Smiles on a Murderer )
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One of the Best Joe D'Amato movies ever made.
10 Feb 2007
Directed by Aristide Massaccesi (Joe D'Amato). DEATH SMILES ON MURDER (Death Smiled at Murder)(1972) is the only film that directer Joe D'Amato acually used his real name as the director. Before Joe D'amato began filming softcore and hardcore films he was a cinematographer and director for a couple very effective Gialli (WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO SOLANGE, THE KILLER IS ON THE PHONE) and Horror films (THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT).
Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi) was born on December 15, 1936, in Rome and died in Rome, Italy because of a heart attack.
The last film that D'Amato was working on before his death was a movie called PLANKTON (1995). That was supposed to be about a group of young divers that become infected with a 'virus' which results in rape and bloody mayhem.
Here he directs Klaus Kinski and gorgeous Ewa Aulin in this wild story of a man who uses an ancient Incan formula to raise the dead and uses it for his own series of revenge murders. Bizarre, surreal and at times incomprehensible, this D'Amato film (which he also scripted) is full of hypnotic scenes and strong scenes of violence.
Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi) was born on December 15, 1936, in Rome and died in Rome, Italy because of a heart attack.
The last film that D'Amato was working on before his death was a movie called PLANKTON (1995). That was supposed to be about a group of young divers that become infected with a 'virus' which results in rape and bloody mayhem.
Here he directs Klaus Kinski and gorgeous Ewa Aulin in this wild story of a man who uses an ancient Incan formula to raise the dead and uses it for his own series of revenge murders. Bizarre, surreal and at times incomprehensible, this D'Amato film (which he also scripted) is full of hypnotic scenes and strong scenes of violence.
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