Sunday 11 November 2012

Death Steps In The Dark (1977)



 
Slightly average yet a mild guilty pleasure, this second giallo from director Maurizio Predeaux didn't quite live up to all my expectations.
 I really enjoyed his 'Death Carries A Cane' and sure this has all the elements anyone could ask for in a giallo: black gloved killer, razor murders, eyeball close-ups, lesbians, nightclubs, etc it also contains too many lame attempts at humour for my taste.
 Leonard Mann is an ok lead and Robert Webber a serviceable police inspector but  the rest of the cast are pretty forgettable.
  Never got bored during it's 90 minutes but can't see myself returning to it too often and even Riz Ortolani's score has already slipped from my memory.
 
 

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