Un posto ideale per uccidere (1971)
Ingrid (Muti) and Richard (Lovelock) have the world at their fingertips. They are young, in love and without a care in the world. They’re on holiday in Italy and find that all they need to get by are some naked pictures of Ingrid to sell. This works out for a little while but after they are busted by the police for selling illegal pornography, freed of their belongings by a group of traveling cycle jockeys and asked to leave Italy in 24 hours, things take a turn for the serious. While traveling on an out-of-the-way road the car they’re driving runs out of gas. This happens very near a large villa. Knocking produces no results but the garage door is open so why not steal a little gas to get by on? A hysterical woman (Papas) bursts into the garage screaming and threatening to call the police but is quickly put at relative ease by the free-spirited nature of her guests. This is where the mysteries of this particular giallo are set into motion as all in this house is not as it seems. The lady they meet proves to be unpredictable, screaming and nervous one minute and seductive and sure the next; none of it sits well with Ingrid at all and even Richard eventually decides that something must be going on to warrant such erratic behavior. Indeed, there are many secrets within the walls of the villa and our young lovers soon find themselves in way over their heads! From here on a series of twists and revelations unfold with suspenseful perfection thanks to the proven skills of Umberto Lenzi and his crew. Muti is staggeringly beautiful, as is the location photography. An excellent and recommended thriller that even features the attack sequence set in the aviary that is cut from the Dutch and other prints! This is not to be confused with another of Lenzi’s fantastic gialli from 1971, A Quiet Place to Kill.