EYEBALL: Giallo Review

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:52:09 GMT

am very fond of EYEBALL, although I cannot really articulate why at the moment. (I never saw a Lenzi film that disappointed me, however.) It puzzles me that your R2 Marketing Films DVD is entitled SECRET KILLER; my R2 Marketing Films DVD is entitled LABYRINTH DES SCHRECKENS.

Even Lenzi's bad/very flawed films (BLACK DEMONS) have a bizarre energy which makes them interesting. My Marketing Films versions features both titles, one in brackets, on the presentation.

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (Jojo Lapin X) — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:48:38 GMT

I am very fond of EYEBALL, although I cannot really articulate why at the moment. (I never saw a Lenzi film that disappointed me, however.) It puzzles me that your R2 Marketing Films DVD is entitled SECRET KILLER; my R2 Marketing Films DVD is entitled LABYRINTH DES SCHRECKENS.

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:13:32 GMT

At the time those films were made, there were actually two bullrings in Barcelona, the Monumental and the Arenas, the latter of which is now being converted into a shopping mall. I've only seen them from the outside, so I can't really tell which one this is.

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:59:50 GMT

Here's a trailer for another Lenzi giallo...

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:55:30 GMT

It does look like the locations were stolen, especially the murder on the ramblas in which you see people in the background looking surprised and at the camera if you look closely. One scene is shot in a mud patch. It's a somewhat ugly looking film made in beautiful locations. I think they might have had scenes set in other locales but the producer may have failed to get expensive permits. They just show a quick shot of the famous bullfighting area, for example, as a drive-by. That would...

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:12:35 GMT

Maybe he was angry with Cunillés! I don't know, from the top of my head if he's from Barcelona, but he's certainly Catalan and has been largely based there.
I wonder, from your words, if the locations were stolen, which might explain the poor set-ups you mention.

The police are commonly depicted as crude in contemporary Spanish films anyway, which could not really be done before 1976 or so.
There have been cases of scripts for foreign films made in Spain where...

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:11:18 GMT

Lenzi evidences a rather insulting attitude to the residents of Barcelona, who are depicted as very stupid, especially the police. This is a very dull looking film, anyone could come up with more interesting images just going to Barcelona with a video-enabled cellphone!

Re: EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:50:16 GMT

Don't know this one. The bit about the American flag is priceless, but I would have no trouble accepting Rigaud as an American priest, but then that could be because he had done some Broadway work in his early years. Now that the Cunilleses, as far as I know, divide their time between Spain and the States, doing distribution work, I presume they'd gain a more accurate feeling for things American.

EYEBALL: Giallo Review

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:22:56 GMT

GATTI ROSSSI UN LABIRINTO DI VETRO/THE SECRET KILLER/1974 Spain-Italy

This review is based on the R2 Marketing Films DVD: THE SECRET KILLER, which is letterboxed at 2.35: 1.

Released in the US in 1977 by Joseph Bernner Associates Inc. as EYEBALL and in 1985 on video by PRISM ENTERTAIMENT. I have the original pre-record, which is hideously cropped at 1.33:1,...