MURDER OBSESSION

Film dictionaries dismiss in a few words the return to the thriller by the father of Italian horror cinema... After an absence of ten years, the protagonist returns home to see his mother, along with his girlfriend. But a chain of strange murders bloodies the places of his youth, to which he himself seems strangely connected... In fact, with the insipid Martine Brochard and with a Stefano Patrizi who holds the scene for only a few minutes, this film is certainly not up to the level of his previous works; the screenplay appears really poor: a final twist but so much, so much flatness and who knows why a pedestrian psychological analysis of the facts. Freda declared that the last twenty minutes of 'Murder Obsession' were the best he had ever shot: one can agree, but it is the previous ones that are worth little or nothing! Curiosity: in the film there were two super sexy actresses: Silvia Dionisio and Laura Gemser (the Emmanuelle preferred by Joe D'Amato). Angelo Mattei, who collaborated with a very young Sergio Stivaletti on the film's special effects, made an impression on the effects artist of 'Phenomena' and 'Dèmoni' with the loud anger of Freda, who, not convinced by some special effects, kicked them off the set. The VHS is hard to find, but it's worth seeing: it was the last film of the late master. Freda's testament film, watchable 'for culture'.