Angela Covello, Carla Brait, Cristina Airoldi, John Richardson, Luc Merenda ...( see more  see more... ) , Roberto Bisacco , Suzy Kendall , Tina Aumont

Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from ...( read more  read more... )classes by going up to Danielle's uncle's villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem.

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R, 92 min.

Directed by: Sergio Martino

Release Date: October 1, 1973

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DVD Release Date: March 21, 2000

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  • February 9, 2009
    First half: 70's artsy soft-core porn. If I wasn't so entertained by nudity, the first half would have gone by soooooo slow. Second half: clever slasher thriller including martial arts and an out-of-nowhere back story. I heart the seventies... and it's lack of underwear!
  • January 21, 2009
    Hmmm. This isn't the worst giallo I've ever seen but it's probably the sleaziest. It's one of those movies in which a beautiful young woman's odds of being violently murdered are inversely proportional to the amount of clothing she wears; if she wants to get out alive, she...( read more) should follow Suzy Kendall's example and keep 'em covered! As much as I'd like to dismiss this film as a worthless piece of crap, it does have a couple of good ideas. The first two thirds of the movie are par for the shitty course, but the last half hour - in which Kendall finds herself trapped in a secluded villa with a killer who, for the time being at least, is too busy dismembering her friends to realise she's there - contains some decent suspense. Clichéd suspense, perhaps, but well executed and boosted by Kendall's above average performance. As usual with this sort of thing, it's not difficult to spot the killer; he's the one guy the script isn't straining furiously to make a suspect out of. Everybody else gets this sort of treatment: "Oh, it's you, uncle... But where are you? Paris?!?!? It sounds as if you're calling from the next room!" *groan*
  • September 18, 2008
    Part of the Italian Giallo that inspired the slasher craze.
  • June 8, 2006
    Not Martino's strongest film but there's enough sleaze for Euro Cult fans to chew on.
  • May 29, 2006
    Yes, I actually have seen this. All that happened was I got an hour and a half older. My ex-girlfriend really needs to re-evaluate her DVD purchases.
  • March 21, 2009
    aka I Corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (qui a quand même plus de gueule): quelques très bonnes scènes, un casting parfait et 20 dernières minutes sublimes: un très bon giallo (qui a presque un petit côté slasher avant la lettre!)
  • January 4, 2009
    I have wanted to see "TORSO" ever since I was a kid and saw the previews for it on TV.
    It was playing around the same time as the Texas Chainsaw Massace ,I was only a kid but I had already developed a love for the macabre and Craved bloody horror flicks.
    The previews made it ...( read more)look so terrifying,with the girls running in the dark woods with a man in a ski cap with eye holes chasing them with a hack saw.
    There was about 3 minutes of that scene or any like it in Torso.
    All these years later and I finally get to see it.
    Was it worth it? NO
    It was very badly lit,the first killing was so obviously fake "it looked just like what it was,a knife being dragged through an ULTRA fake looking wax torso.
    If the first kill is bad it usually sets the tone for the rest of the film..But I continued to watch seeing as I had purchased the dvd.
    There were a couple of scary moments in the film but most of it was hurry up and wait for a boring kill.
    It has some naked girls but so do most all slashers"not that that intrests me"but for the sake of the guys I wrote it.
    all in all it pretty much sucked..
    I'm a collector of all slashers and buy them regardless if they suck or not..But you shouldn't have to..
  • November 2, 2008
    LOTS of hot ass babes in this but this flick failed to click with me for some reason. I don't know - maybe i caught it at the wrong time....
  • August 2, 2008
    If there ever were such a thing as too much breasts, it'd be this...or Donkeylips. Pretty standard giallo with a fairly laughable ending that beats the soccer in heaven scene from 'Don't Torture A Duckling'....They're DOLLS! That's all you need to know. I'd still recommend thi...( read more)s just because it wasn't SO bad and the red herrings actually make you question who it is...between two people..still counts!

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