Strip Nude For Your Killer (DVD)

A review of the Shameless DVD, available for about £6 on amazon at the moment. This is a reasonably sleazy Italian giallo from 1975. Gialli were murder mysteries in which the murders themselves were gruesome and explicit (enough so that the films are classed as horrors rather than thrillers). This is a fairly typical example of the genre, and while entertaining, isn't really remarkable. A young woman dies during an abortion gone wrong. The doctor is murdered shortly afterwards by someone in motorcycle leathers and helmet. Soon the employees of a photographic agency are targeted by the same killer, being picked off one by one. What's their connection ...  Read the complete review

It's been a long two months, but the end of October spells the launch of the next Shameless Screen Entertainment movie: Strip Nude For Your Killer (Nude per l'assassino). Made back in 1975 this movie has been sadly elusive in the UK, while overseas it has been an incredibly popular purchase for collectors of the Italian thriller genre otherwise known as Giallo! My first encounter with the movie occurred two years ago, when against advice I purchased the German X-Rated edition. The movie was quite literally chucked onto the DVD, its imagery sometimes so dark it was hard to see, but most importantly a soundtrack so distorted and poor that thirty odd minutes in ...  Read the complete review