The Blind Dead
05-07-2007, 09:36 AM
When faced with a Sergio Martino film, you can usually rely on it being a very well produced exploitation movie. Be it The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh or Mountain of the Cannibal God, you’re going to be entertained! That is what Martino does best, and he knows it. During the early 70s he was producing some of the best Gialli of the era, in fact it could be said that he brought the sleaze and OTT violence to the genre. Before he got his grubby hands on it, it was still respected (critically) as a genre. When he released Torso on the unsuspecting Giallo fans, you can just imagine their reaction. He had finally taken the plunge and made the violence on screen overly sexual. The genre was never the same again.
In the late 70s though, the audience taste had changed, they wanted Dirty Harry style thrills, and boy, did they get it. And Martino, was struck with the outlandish idea of making a Giallo-come-Police-Thriller hybrid, surely he couldn’t go wrong mixing the two best selling genres of the 70s?
The finished product is Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne (A.K.A Suspected Death of A Minor) and it’s a wild ride with many ups and downs.
The action kicks off with an outdoor disco-thing that is made up of some very scared looking old people as the camera comes right at them, so close in fact you can see up...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000796.html)
In the late 70s though, the audience taste had changed, they wanted Dirty Harry style thrills, and boy, did they get it. And Martino, was struck with the outlandish idea of making a Giallo-come-Police-Thriller hybrid, surely he couldn’t go wrong mixing the two best selling genres of the 70s?
The finished product is Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne (A.K.A Suspected Death of A Minor) and it’s a wild ride with many ups and downs.
The action kicks off with an outdoor disco-thing that is made up of some very scared looking old people as the camera comes right at them, so close in fact you can see up...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000796.html)