Further exploring the giallo thriller genre and loving the Bruno Nicolai soundtrack, I watched Lindsay Hallam’s recommendation, All The Colors Of The Dark (1972; Tutti i colori del buio). Edwige Fenech plays a woman, Jane, plagued by nightmares based on traumatic incidents in her past – her hunk husband (George Hinton) is unsure about her therapist yet her new neighbour and new best friend Mary (Mary Malfatti) convinces her about the benefits of a satanic cult she’s in – big mistake! This is a trippy horror film – somewhere between Rosemary’s Baby and a Hammer Horror film but shot through with that giallo sensibility: the piercing blue eyes of murderer Mark (Ivan Rassimov), the wacky style of the cult leader (Julian Ugarte) who looks like he wandered out of a disco musical, the satanic orgies, surprise deaths, the multiple twist endings, etc. It was entertaining and stylish if you are into this sort of thing. Directed by Sergio Martino.
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