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  • Actors: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti, Alberto de Mendoza
  • Directors: Lucio Fulci
  • Producers: Edmondo Amati
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jun. 2010
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0037Z96BO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,793 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan, Una breve vacanza, The Damned, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) is a sophisticated politician’s daughter who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares drenched in depraved sex orgies and LSD. The dreams turns into a nightmare featuring the death of her neighbour, Julia Dürer (Anita Strindberg, The Eroticist). The next day Julia is found brutally murdered in her own apartment.

The investigation, conducted by Inspector Corvin (Stanley Baker, The Guns of Navarrone, Zulu), leads to Carol’s arrest, however she is released after a mysterious man confesses to Scotland Yard that he is the murderer. Not convinced of Carol’s innocence, Corvin continues to investigate the murder and unearths new disturbing clues … Did Carol really do it or is she being framed? Where do her dreams end and reality begin?

This thriller from Lucio Fulci (Perversion Story, The Eroticist) is acclaimed as a masterpiece of the Italian giallo thriller genre and its psychedelic Ennio Morricone score ranks among the best of Il Maestro’s work.

** In order to produce the most complete version of the film ever available on DVD, shots have had to be inserted from different sources. In some places only Italian audio is known to exist, in which case we have retained and subtitled the scenes. The restoration has been overseen by acclaimed film writer Marc Morris.”

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Giallo, a genre noted for it's odd, queasy visuals and abstracted plotting hits a high watermark with Lucio Fulci's (Zombie Flesheaters, The Beyond) early 70s classic A Lizard in A Woman's Skin, which mixes the murder and red herring cliches of the genre with a eye-popping visual style that brings a dose of LSD, high mystery and suspense and a brilliant musical score by Ennio Morricone. In a cult movie style that covers many bases, from near straight Police Procedural Dramas to highly intense horror pictures, Lizard in a Woman's Skin finds it's own unique style.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin is arguably one of Fulci's strongest films. Tightly plotted and well-paced with a genuinely surprising conclusion, it shows just what Fulci was capable of when he invested sufficient effort in his writing. It's gory, it's thrilling, it's creepy and it's moody. Not only that but it also captures the early 70's psychedelic 'thing' without being cheesy. It's basically a psychological study of a woman who seems deeply troubled but, then again may just be delusional. Until the end, we really have no idea which is the case, but when we find out we're surprised. The plot is genius. Lizard in a Woman's Skin is one of the archetypal bench-posts of Italian horror. Viewing it in this uncut region 2 edition from Optimum is a revelation as well, providing a much brighter and more lush print than the American DVD release.

If you've seen Fulci's straight horror buy this. If you have even a passing interest in cult 70s movie making buy this. One of the directors best and one of the finest in it's genre.
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I had the good fortune to see this version at Frightfest in Glasgow, and although the restoration wasn't quite complete the cut was - and wow was it something! The most complete version available anywhere (more complete than in the previous Shriek Show releases), and all in widescreen! Fantastic. This release includes the Italian and the English audio, and even uses gorgeous original poster artwork on the cover!

An absolute must own for fans of Giallo, fans of Fulci, fans of fantastic film in general!
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It may be gorehound heresy to say this, but I think I prefer this early, London-set giallo to the later HP Lovecraft-inspired, gut-busting zombie epics Fulci churned out (spewed out?) during the late 70s and early 80s. Florinda Bolkan, a rare giallo lead actress who's as watchable with her clothes on as off, plays the wife of a rich lawyer whose vivid dreams involving her sexually liberated neighbour eerily come true when the neighbour turns up murdered. Brit acting legend Stanley Baker is the detective assigned to the case which, in best giallo tradition, turns out to be fiendishly complicated...
As interested in story and character as sex and violence (you get that too...), the giallo staples, Lizard's story is involved and actually makes perfect sense when all the plot pieces are finally put together. Fulci fanatics will enjoy spotting the links with his later works, from the spaced out, pale faced hippies stumbling around like extras from the Beyond, to the gore for gore's sake (the infamous vivisected dogs aren't even connected to the mystery), and the, shall we say, slightly 'troubling' attiude to women (a brutal, New York Ripper-style killing is shot in gloating close up...). Fulci displays a very conservative attitude to the counter culture, portraying hippies as drugged crazed wasters who kill with little compunction, but he's not above stealing a few tricks from the new wave directors making a splash at the time, utilising all kinds of subjective camera moves that help the viewer understand the troubled mind set of Bolkan's character. And did Mr Fulci actually drop some acid before shooting those amazing psychedelic dream sequences?
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Giallo, a genre noted for it's odd, queasy visuals and abstracted plotting hits a high watermark with Lucio Fulci's (Zombie Flesheaters, The Beyond) early 70s classic which mixes the murder and red herring cliches of the genre with an eye-popping visual style that brings a dose of LSD and a lot of seamy sexual perversity to the party. In a cult movie style that covers many bases, from near straight Police Procedural dramas to highly eroticised horror pictures, Lizard in a Woman's Skin finds it's own unique niche.

Fulci himself is well regarded as a creator of hard gore splatter pictures, many of which were banned in the UK in the early 80s, thus insuring the directors infamy. This period from the late 70s to the mid 80s is widely regarded as the filmmakers golden period, in which he churned out blood drenched terror flicks prolifically which were in general of high quality and in the case of The Beyond, highly original and almost works of art. But with the release of Lizard the UK finally gets a small glimpse of the rest of his vast catalogue. From slapstick comedy and westerns to historical romances and vampire comedies, not to mention post-apocalyptic thrillers and Swords 'n' Sandals epics, Fulci's turned his hand to everything, but his Giallo excursions represent an earlier golden era in the late 60s and early 70s, when his films were commercial hits in his native italy (and no doubt, in the Grindhouses of 42nd Street New York) but offered the viewer so much more in terms of camerawork, music (Lizard has a brilliant score by Morricone) and brain scrambling oddity.

If you've seen Fulci's straight horror buy this. If you have even a passing interest in cult 70s movie making buy this. One of the directors best and one of the finest in it's genre.
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