Spasmo

Spasmo

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Year: 1974

Christian and his girlfriend are taking a walk on a deserted beach when they discover a woman's body lying. A closer look proves that she's alive. The next day Christian meets her again at a yacht party and they fall in love. Later at a nearby motel, something weird happens as they prepare to go to bed together: An intruder breaks in and starts beating Christian who accidentally shoots him with his own gun. A few hours later they find out that the corpse is missing and a series of weird incidents takes place.

Spasmo is quite an odd film that doesn't make sense very often, the dialogue is ridiculous in places & then there are the latex dummies which are constantly being hung & stabbed, yet never seem to play an important part in the film. 

This is a pretty confusing Umberto Lenzi flick starring Robert Hoffmann & Suzy Kendall. The Ennio Morricone score didn't have the most memorable theme but really came to life in the more tension felt scenes, very disorientating at times. The twists in the final 15-20 minutes keep coming and coming in a what-the-fuck kinda way. 

That said, Spasmo remains a unique and highly entertaining Giallo despite it's many flaws, it may be incoherent with a daft plot but this oddity somehow delivers the goods.

★★★½

Suzy Kendall being strangled, as usual.