Cinema de Bizarre - Rare and Obscure Movies on DVD-R Eurotrash

Review: This one is probably the only attempt at Giallo from Belgium, using all the codes of the genre, with cruel murders and a police investigation about a maniac who kills people by sticking a pencil in their noses to the brain. Sounds exciting? Yes it is, but the only problem is the incredible lack of talent of the director to achieve an ounce of suspense, or even a decent shot. Now this doesn’t mean this movie is not interesting in it’s own way, the film could be the “Guide for giallo beginners: the mistakes to avoid”. Every shot in this film is flat and uninspired, the music is ugly as hell and the characters and dialogs are ridiculous, but the worst is yet to come, this movie is totally racist to the core. The inspector’s wife has a black lover, so is the main suspect, so it allows for some of the most insane dialogs such as “Arrest every nigger you find in the streets” “Chief, I got two creoles not very dark, do I keep them”, and more of that kind. Director Lee Thys, seems to be concerned about racism, as he did two other movies about this subject, “Cruel Horizon” (1989) with Bruce Baron (that says a lot about the quality of this one) about the Vietnamese and Thaï, and “Kassablanca”(2002) about Muslims, both reputed to be bad. The murders are not very bloody, except one in a bath, considering the modus operandi of the crimes. It’s still a treat for bad movie fans and giallo completists and is very rare, and will probably never be released on DVD, as no companies would ever take the risk. Fullscreen, in French language only, no subtitles. Quality B