Film
Reviews
1989
- La Gabbia, a..k.a.
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Dead Fright
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Collector's Item
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La Juala
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The Trap
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (Divina Creatura);
Ettore Spagnuolo (producer); writers: Alberto Silvestri, Ennio
Morricone, Francesco Barilli and horror film legend Lucio Fulci (The
Gates of Hell; Zombie); soundtrack by Ennio Morricone (The
Good, The Bad, The Ugly; The Untouchables); Director of
Photography: Hans Burmann and Juan Amoros; with Tony Musante (HBO's OZ;
The Bird with the Crystal Plumag; with Tony Musante (HBO's OZ;
The Bird with the Crysal Plumage), Florinda Bolkan, Manuel
Tienda, Blanca Marsillach, Cristina Marsillach, Laura Troschel, Jose
Maria Bastus, Mercedes Duval, Florinda Bolkan and Achille
Brunini [horror/suspense, thriller].
An international co-production with
dialogue in both Italian and English, this erotic thriller is about
Michael Parker (Musante), a successful American businessman living in
Italy with his girlfriend. When she leaves on vacation, Michael is soon
involved in a torrid, passionate affair with Marie (Antonelli), a woman
with whom he once enjoyed a one-night stand. This time, however, Marie
is not about to let Michael off the romantic hook so easily, exacting
horrific revenge on her lover. Further complicating Michael's love life
is Jacqueline, Marie's nubile preteen daughter, whose attraction for
Michael pits mother and daughter against each other in an incestuous
love triangle.
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The story revolves
around a chance meeting between former lovers of 16 years earlier. Their
inadvertent rendezvous ignites a fury of fond memories and temporarily
rekindles the passion, but then leads to dangerously obsessive behavior
which
turns into a sexual nightmare for Michael (Musante). The
ex-lover has become insane and sets out to enslave him, forcing him to
become the object of her lust.
***
A terrifying, macabre, and erotically
charged thriller written by horror film legend Lucio Fulci (The Gates
of Hell; Zombie). The soundtrack is by world renowned film
composer Ennio Morricone of The Good The Bad The Ugly;
The Untouchables)
Michael (Musante), a father and
happily married man about to descend into a nightmarish reality from which there
can be no escape. A chance encounter with Marie (Antonelli), an ex-lover from
fifteen years ago, leads to a lustful one-night-stand, but Michael suddenly
discovers that she is obsessed with him - beyond the point of sanity. Wide-eyed
with madness, Marie takes Michael hostage, chaining him to a bed using physical
and psychological torture in a bizarre attempt to win back his love.
Terror-stricken and fearing for his life, Michael's only hope for survival lies
in seducing Marie's beautiful daughter Jacqueline (Bolkan). Yet she has her own
frightening plans for Michael...caught in a web between two deadly
females."
***
Incontra in casa dell'amante in carica una
ex amante e con lei e la figlia sedicenne intreccia pericolosa sarabanda
d'amore. Squallida e squilibrata opera destinata a erotomani raffinati
che, pero', resteranno delusi. Bella biancheria, amplessi trasgressivi
sado-maso, musica "sensuale" di Ennio Morricone.
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