Torso
by Sergio Martino
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Actor: John Richardson, Luc Merenda, Roberto Bisacco, Suzy Kendall, Tina AumontDirector: Sergio Martino
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Published: 2009
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Blue Underground
DVD Reviews of Torso
DVD Review: My Favorite Italian Giallo
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film on the big screen when it was first released and did not realize the print was cut by the studios as all Euro Horrors were at that time when released in the US, why? Did they think we couldn't take it? I was shivering with delight when I saw the Anchor Bay release with all the scenes intact and if I know Blue Underground , the transfer will be a slight upgrade but I don't know how you can improve on it. Suffice it to say it is the best example of the genre to date sans overcoat, dark gloves but of course a blade. It has two of my favorite Euro actresses Suzy Kendall and Tina Aumont. In the male department ,Poliziotteschi stalwart Luc Merenda and in a subdued performance, John Richardson. It is directed by Italy's most underrated director, Sergio Martino, who touched every genre throughout the seventies and eighties and made his best work with the exquisite Edwige Fenech but 'TORSO' is so impeccable a work that it literally shatters the screen with its bluntness . Many people have compared it to 'FRIDAY THE 13th' and other slasher films which were released at that time but this film is light years ahead of all of them . American directors Sean Cunningham and Wes Craven have received accolades on their horror films but its about time that Sergio Martino gets his just rewards. Always beautifully photographed and crisply edited to perfection, his films deserve to be retrospected and at the top of the list,'TORSO'. Along with 'THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA' , this is one of the best giallo's of the seventies and my favorite of all of the them. Highly recommended.
Description of Torso
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.Directed by Sergio Martino (MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD) and starring Suzy Kendall (THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) and Tina Aumont (SALON KITTY), this Euro Horror chiller was originally released in America with much of its controversial violence removed by censors. Now fully restored from the original negative materials, TORSO is presented completely uncut and uncensored on DVD.
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There's a killer on the loose who's murdering and mutilating beautiful young college girls, and there's no shortage of suspects. Four comely coeds decide to escape the madness by vacationing in an isolated country villa, but the maniac has his eye on them--one of them suspects his identity--and drops in for a homicidal holiday. With a title like Torso you know what you're getting, but despite the high body count and the suggestion of dismemberment, most of the gore in this Italian giallo is offscreen... with a few exceptions (an icky eye gouging stands out). Director Sergio Martino is no Dario Argento and the film is blunt, direct, and vicious, as can be seen when the killer disposes of a witness by ramming his skull into a brick wall with his car, not once but twice (with the appropriate close-up). The killer, who hides behind a ratty ski mask and strangles his targets with a florid scarf, is haunted by some obscure childhood memory involving a porcelain doll and a traumatizing accident. He straddles two clichés, the Norman Bates-variety psychos and the hooded, zombielike automatons of Halloween and Friday the 13th. It doesn't make much sense, but like most slasher films, it's really about suspense, spectacle, and a body count, and Martino doesn't disappoint. To restore the film, Anchor Bay has included a few brief scenes in Italian with English subtitles. --Sean Axmaker
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