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The film opens with a woman being murdered and then her body is placed in a trunk. The action from then on takes place at the St Hildas college for girls where a killer is on the prowl. A detective played by an aging Michael Rennie (Day the earth stood still) is called in to investigate.
Antonio Margheriti's early giallo has many of the elements that came to define the genre and was made before any of Argentos. To be honest though, it isn't that great, but the photography and direction is quite good and the standard black gloved killer is present and correct. There is some suspense but in general the killings are quite hastily done with no blood and it's pretty obvious who the killer is. The college girls look really old and one character "Jill" is so annoying you want her to die immediately so it comes as a disappointment when she survives to the end. Margheriti has made better films than this, but this is one of early gialli that helped pave the way for the classics that were to come.
The picture quality is very good but the film is in Italian with English subtitles and not English dubbed. This is very annoying as apparently there is an English language version out there.
Antonio Margheriti's early giallo has many of the elements that came to define the genre and was made before any of Argentos. To be honest though, it isn't that great, but the photography and direction is quite good and the standard black gloved killer is present and correct. There is some suspense but in general the killings are quite hastily done with no blood and it's pretty obvious who the killer is. The college girls look really old and one character "Jill" is so annoying you want her to die immediately so it comes as a disappointment when she survives to the end. Margheriti has made better films than this, but this is one of early gialli that helped pave the way for the classics that were to come.
The picture quality is very good but the film is in Italian with English subtitles and not English dubbed. This is very annoying as apparently there is an English language version out there.
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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Paging Nancy Drew
9 April 2007
By Flipper Campbell
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Format:DVD
In the DVD's delightfully lurid cover art, a shadowy killer strangles a young blonde whose aroused breasts poke through her underwear. An ancient city burns red in the distance. The text promises "a macabre tale of murder at an all-girls school." In fact, it's fun tale of murder at an all-girls school. This Italian whodunnit from 1968 is more Agatha Christy than Mario Bava (who wrote some of the story). Charming performances from the young cast, especially the British actress Sally Smith as a Nancy Drew wannabe. Michael Rennie wanders through as an inspector. In Italian, first time in the States in an uncut version. "Naked You Die" is the translation of the Italian title. In the States, AIP hacked 15 minutes out of the film and dubbed it "The Young, the Evil and the Savage," which pretty much sums up nothing. Worth seeing for the opening nude bathtube slaying alone.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
early giallo murder mystery
9 Dec 2008
By Michael Dobey
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This flick from 1968 is a decent giallo thriller. In which a black gloved killer is on the loose at a girlschool. The violence in this would be comparable to any movie that came before. Although there is nudity, which a American movie would have never allowed, and of course Mario bava helped write the story. But his movies were even a few years earlier just a little more explicit in their violence. The story is a decent
giallo story that takes place in a girlsschool. If you like murder mysteries from europe and giallo thrillers and don't the expect wild frenzied
action and sleazier nudity of giallos from 1970 onward, then you will like this flick. . This movie reminded me a good mystery flick from Alfred Hitchcock. And it has the excellent Michael Rennie as the lead dectective. And the flick even has a cool 1960's rock song theme. This is just a fun flick and it reminded me of how much I loved those british
mysteries like miss marple etc because they tell a good story, and have good acting in them as well.
giallo story that takes place in a girlsschool. If you like murder mysteries from europe and giallo thrillers and don't the expect wild frenzied
action and sleazier nudity of giallos from 1970 onward, then you will like this flick. . This movie reminded me a good mystery flick from Alfred Hitchcock. And it has the excellent Michael Rennie as the lead dectective. And the flick even has a cool 1960's rock song theme. This is just a fun flick and it reminded me of how much I loved those british
mysteries like miss marple etc because they tell a good story, and have good acting in them as well.
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