![]() ![]() I was somewhat confused as it appears that Italian director Umberto Lenzi, who will always be known in my book for his notorious cannibal flicks, has two movies that share the same alternative title, and they were only made one year apart. ![]() Reviewed by Stevieboy666 8 / 10 Incredibly cool looking movie Helping out on this film's cinematography? None other than Aristide Massaccesi himself, the man of many names who most know as Joe D'Amato. Death) and Marie Claire Solleville (Orgasmo). This is a classy giallo, filled with lush camerawork and a solid script from Marcello Coscia (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue), Bruno Di Geronimo (What Have You Done to Solange?), Rafael Romero Marchent (the director of Santo vs. Her daughter shows up and that's when things get worse for all involved. How else can you explain why she'd accept an invitation from her ex-husband's new wife Constance Sauvage to stay at their palatial home? And what if Helen and Constance soon bond over the fact that they hate Maurice (Jean Sorel, The Sweet Body of Deborah) and murder him on a sailing trip? Of course, this being a giallo, things don't work out that well and Constance ends up dying at sea. Would it simplify things if we used this movie's Spanish title Una Droga Llamada Helen (A Drug Named Helen)? Baker plays race car driving Helen, whose life is beyond a mess. That's not the end of the confusion, as this year Severin will release this on their Lenzi/Baker box set and Mondo Macabro also released An Ideal Place to Kill, another Lenzi film that you may also know as Oasis of Fear. Their 1969 pairing Orgasmo had been released internationally as Paranoia and this film, known as Paranoia in Italy, was retitled A Quiet Place to Kill. ![]() Umberto Lenzi and Carroll Baker made quite the giallo duo. Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 6 / 10 All the Lenzi giallo! ![]()
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