Strip Nude for Your Killer [DVD]

4 1/2 stars.This Arrow edition for Giallo and Gelato is a rather raunchy affair called Strip Nude For Your Killer. It’s a brutal and sleazy entry into the genre which isn’t completely repulsive thanks to the joy that is giallo queen, Edwige Fenech (All the Colors of the Dark). The movie is full of the dark and uncomfortable elements of the modeling game. The film lives up to the title on so many levels. This is not for the viewer looking for a sophisticated taste of ’70s Italian cinema. I recommend Talenti’s Dark Chocolate Cherry to scoop before pressing play on the remote to see Strip Nude For Your Killer.A fashion model dies of a heart attack while receiving an illegal abortion. The doctor calls up a mysterious person so they can carry the body back to her apartment and stage it so the model looks like she died while taking a bath. One night, the doctor encounters a person in motorcycles and racing leathers who stabs them to death. There’s not much mourning at the Albatross Modelling Agency. One of the photographers stalks a woman at a resort and uses his offer of taking test photographs as an excuse to get her naked in a sauna. The owner of the agency (Lia Amanda) is having an affair with a model (The Killer Must Kill Again‘s Femi Benussi) while her perv husband keeps poaching on the talent too. This is not a modeling agency of model citizens. The only one who seems slightly respectable is Magda (Sergio Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key‘s Edwige Fenech). She’s a photographer who wants to be a model. She hooks up with fellow photographer Carlo (Radley Metzger's groundbreaking Camille 2000‘s Nino Castelnuovo). The motorcycle helmet killer starts to pick their way through the agency. The only big clue is that the killer knows the agency since an early victim lets them in the house and talks business before they meet the business end of the knife. As they keep losing co-workers, Magda and Castro investigate even though one of them might be the killer for all they know.Strip Nude For Your Killer came out in 1975 when the wave of Giallo was dying down in Italian theaters that were now showing over the top Cop action flicks. While some might view the film as more of a slasher/body count film, it’s still a Giallo to me. Why? Because ultimately Giallo is about mystery and this film is a double mystery. First we wonder who is behind the motorcycle helmet. But we also must ponder who was the mystery person that covered up the model’s death. Is this ultimately the killer’s target or was that person the killer?Over 40 years later, Edwige Fenech is finally getting a proper audience for her ’70s Giallo work in America with top notch releases not based on butchered prints. This movie shows her cinematic power since she keeps this film from just being all detestable characters getting hacked away by a mystery killer. She’s the only person on the screen you don’t want to see sliced up. Likewise you could forgive her if she turns out to be the killer.The second biggest star of the film is Berto Pisano’s score. His music is as nasty and funky as the action. There’s nothing subtle about his instruments driving the beat. His notes are as obvious as the title. The Director, the consistently sleazy, Andrea Bianchi had just made the infamous sickie Cry of a Prostitute with Henry Silva (The Godfather and countless Italian crime films). The gangster film was pretty rough and nasty so he didn’t completely change up his style for his Giallo entry. Strip Nude For Your Killer delivers as an exploitation flick that doesn’t tease.The video is 2.35:1 anamorphic. The transfer brings out the gritty nature of the modeling industry. The audio is Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks. The levels are great for both version. The English dub sounds fine in case you don’t want to read subtitles. The movie is subtitled in English.Audio Commentary by HORRORPEDIA.com’s Adrian J. Smith and David Flint gives history of the film, cast and crew.Sex and Death with a Smile (23:02) is a new video essay by author and critic Kat Ellinger on Edwige Fenech. Kat explores the career of Edwige as both a giallo and sexy comedy icon in Italian cinema. This gives a great overview of Edwige’s career with plenty of clips for her movies.A Good Man for the Murders (14:32) is an interview with actor Nino Castelnuovo. He talks of wanting to play roles like Bogart and Cagney. He rose up from the Spaghetti Westerns.The Blonde Salamander (18:30) chats with actress Erna Schurer as she smokes her pipe. She talks of her early career and how she went from modeling to acting without too much of a hitch. She had a bit of a background in the industry before this movie.The Art of Helping (44:18) allows assistant director Daniele Sangiorgi to get deep into the film. He gives a sense of how he got in the business. The assistant director is the foreman on the set who has to make sure everything is set up for the director.Jack of All Trades (21:50) allows actor and production manager Tino Polenghi to discuss his duel roles. He started as a background extra in a movie in Milan and he ended up becoming an assistant director who was in charge of finding more extras and pointing out interesting locations as a local kid. He has great stories about how the producers worked cheap because they didn’t pay anyone. Plus he breaks down a few love scenes. Like the other interviews with the cast and crew, he speaks Italian so all is subtitled.Two versions of the opening scene: tinted and untinted viewing options for the model’s death and cover up.Original Trailers in both Italian (3:42) and English (3:42) are the same with different dub soundtracks.Image gallery (2:45) are posters, lobby cards and promotional stills.Arrow Video presents Strip Nude For Your Killer. Directed by Andrea Bianchi. Screenplay by: Massimo Felisatti & Andrea Bianchi. Starring: Solvi Stubing, Nino Castelnuovo, Edwige Fenech & Erna Schürer. Rated: Not Rated. Running Time: 98 minutes. Released: March 19, 2019

Warning: SPOILERS!!! Sleazy Italian giallo film that opens with a doctor performing an abortion on a young woman. When she wakes up in the middle of the procedure and dies of a massive coronary, the doctor and assistant Carlo Bianchi (Nino Castelnuovo) take the woman's body to her house, place her in a bathtub full of water and make it look like she drowned in her bathtub of natural causes. The doctor then drives home like nothing wrong has happened, but is attacked and graphically stabbed to death by someone wearing a black leather outfit, complete with motorcycle helmet. The attacker then cuts off the doctor's testicles and leaves them next to his body. The next time we see Carlo, he is taking photos of the beautiful bikini-clad Lucia (Femi Benussi; THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN - 1973) and soon he has talked her into stripping nude in a sauna and they are making love. Carlo brings Lucia back to the modeling agency he works for, where we meet an odd assortment of characters: Magda (Edwige Fenech; YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM - 1972), a fellow photographer and wannabe model who has the hots for Carlo; Gisella Montani (played by the single-monikered Amanda), the iron-fisted owner of the modeling agency; Maurizio (Franco Diogene), Gisella's overweight husband who has a habit of hitting on the models; Patricia (Solvi Stubing), the agency's number one model who is now being hounded by Maurizio for some time in the sack and doesn't appreciate having Lucia as a new rival; and various other employees. When an obviously gay employee named Mario develops a photo that contains images of everyone in the agency (including the dead abortion girl, who we find out was named Evelyn), the black-clad killer follows him home, stabs him to death and steals the photo, but not before cutting off Mario's gonads and leaving them next to his body (It is also obvious Mario knew the killer, calling his attacker "darling", but since Mario was gay, the killer could be a man or a woman). A police inspector (Lucio Como) interrogates all of the agency's employees and tries to tie-in the doctor's murder with Mario's, since they are so similar. Gisella and Lucia begin a lesbian relationship and Gisella warns Lucia to stay away from Carlo if she knows what's good for her. Lucia is then graphically stabbed to death by the leather-clad killer immediately after Gisella leaves the apartment. An earring found next to Lucia's body offers an important clue to the killer's identity and when Maurizio is the next to suffer the fate of the killer's knife, all clues point to Gisella being the killer. But when Gisella is blackmailed for ten million lire by someone over the phone and Carlo takes photos of the killer murdering Gisella as she is delivering the blackmail money (she is stabbed and has both her ears cut off), it is apparent that Carlos is the blackmailer and the killer is someone close to him. The killer tries to run over Carlos with a car, sending him to the hospital. Magda must find Carlos' undelveloped roll of film to unmask the killer. When Magda is set-up to look like the killer, Carlo must unmask the real killer in the film's bloody climax. If you have been following this review closely, you should be able to figure out who the killer is. This is a nasty, nudity-filled thriller that is sure to raise some eyebrows, due to both male and female full-frontal nudity and the manner of the killings. Director Andrea Bianchi, who also gave us the excellent crime thriller CRY OF A PROSTITUTE (1974), the zombie horror flick BURIAL GROUND (1980) and the slasher film MASSACRE (1989), and screenwriter Massimo Felisatti, give us enough red herrings to keep us guessing (although it is readily apparent that the overweight Maurizio could never fit into the killer's tight leather outfit), but even those not familiar with giallo conventions could unmask the killer more quickly than this film's police inspector. The stabbings are quite nasty (plenty of spurting blood) and the sight of the male victims' removed testicles (yes, you do see them on a couple of occasions!) is quite unnerving. This may not be a top-tier giallo film, but it has enough quirkiness (such as the reveal that Maurizio is a virgin and can only make love to a blow-up doll without prematurely ejaculating!), luscious nudity and graphic violence (including shots of dead male and female bodies with cut-off penises and breasts) to make it a worthwhile addition to any giallo fan's library. Original title: NUDE PER L'ASSASSINO. Also starring Erna Schurer, Gianni Airo, Silvana Depretto, Achille Grioni, Guiseppa Moschella, Filippo La Neve, Claudio Pelligrini, Wainer Verri and Rudolfo Zola. Blue Underground offers an excellent widescreen, English-dubbed DVD of this film and now they offer an even better Blu-Ray. Not Rated.

This review is about the Blue Underground Blu-ray of Strip Nude for Your Killer. The video quality is as good as it gets and if there is any damage in the print I didn’t see it.The movie itself is a curious mix of mostly Giallo with a bit of Italian sex comedy thrown in for good measure. The result is very entertaining.Of course the big selling point is the bevy of gorgeous actresses. Edwige Fenech has a huge fan base but Femi Benussi alone is worth the price of admission IMO. Once you see her sultry, poolside strut at the beginning of the movie you’ll never forget it.There’s an entertaining interview from 2005 in addition to trailers.If you’re a Giallo or Eurocult fan this qualifies as a must-buy, I’d say.

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Note: This is a review of the Arrow, Region A locked, blu ray.This is not a review of the movie but the blu ray disc. I saw this movie years ago on video & it looked dreadful. It looked better when the dvd came out & marginally better again on the Blue Underground blu ray. Thsi new Arrow blu ray is a revelation. Picture quality is simply superb. Detail level is high, blacks are really black & the colours really pop. I doubt if the movie will ever look better. As usual these days for Arrow the disc comes loaded with interesting extras. Arrow simply did an incredible job!If you're a big fan of the Italian Giallo movie genre, then this is an absolutely must buy. You certainly won't be disappointed in the picture & sound quality of this release. It's a big shame that its Region A locked. Time to invest in a multiregion blu ray player!!!

パッケージでは想像してなかったのですが、内容は結構怖いサスペンスストーリーでした。画質は良く、ただ、タイトルのNUDEな映像はあまりなかったです。

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