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Rating: 6 stars

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Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Directed by Luciano Ercoli

Crime | Thriller | Mystery

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Overview

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

Length 102 minutes

Actors

Nieves Navarro | Simón Andreu | Pietro Martellanza | Carlo Gentili | Ivano Staccioli | Claudio Pellegrini | Fabrizio Moresco | Alessandro Perrella | Elio Veller | Luciano Rossi | Raúl Aparici | Giuliana Rivera | Anna Recchimuzzi | Manuel Muñiz | Guido Spadea | Franco Moraldi | Giorgio White | Giacomo Pergola | Roberta Cifarelli | Danilo Bellucci | Claudie Lange | Franco Caracciolo | Lucio Como | Vincenzo De Toma | Filippo La Neve | Luigi Norossi | Vittorio Pinelli | Juan Torres

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Viewing Notes

Firstly, Nieves Navarro is exquisite. Her look is always on point throughout this film. The story starts strong w/her in a drug induced state having a vision of a gruesome murder. Then the mystery begins. By the midway section the story loses steam with more characters being introduced (the weird hired killer duo) and what was sorta giallo just gets muddled. Then there’s a huge exposition dump during the reveal that is so overly convoluted yet somewhat redeemed with a fun rescue / chase.

Still enjoyable (primarily b/c of Nieves) but the mystery is a bit dumb.

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