Marco Castellini
•Bob, a Yellowstone park ranger, has a terrible nightmare one night: someone massacres his sister with a pair of scissors. Simple nightmare or premonition? In doubt, the young man rushes to Milan, where his younger sister works as a model, and discovers that the girl has disappeared. Helped by a police commissioner, he begins the investigations, coming into direct contact with the cruel world of fashion... Adapted from a novel by Marco Parma, "Under the Dress Nothing" represents to this day the only foray into giallo with horror tones by the "infamous" Vanzina brothers ("Squillo," by the same authors, is purely a giallo-police), according to many (and probably rightly so) the main "culprits" of the almost definitive death of Italian "popular" cinema. Quite well acted (special mention deserves the great and late Donald Pleasence, in the role of the police commissioner), the film nevertheless belongs by right in the category of "films to avoid" thanks above all to a poor screenplay in full "Vanzinesque" style (a mix between the music video and the Italian comedy). And to think that Enrico Vanzina (producer and screenwriter), precisely in the interview granted exclusively to our site, stated that he is very proud of this film, which, in his own words, "if some new director had idealized, perhaps today Italian cinema could compete with French cinema." Everyone is free to think what they want! In the end, the most interesting "elements" of the film turn out to be the beautiful actresses (among whom stands out the "divine" Renee Simonsen).
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