Yet another early 70's giallo with one of those cryptic zoophilic titles. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin is a very fine example of this most Italian of exploitation sub-genres and is possibly the best film that Lucio Fulci ever made.
This was a film that I heard about, mostly because I enjoy films from Lucio Fulci, but also because giallo films tend to have interesting titles. This one really does fall into that category for sure.
Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan) is a sexy but frustrated housewife, married to a successful attorney named Frank (Jean Sorel). She has a sexual obsession with a sleazy neighbour, Julia Durer (Anita Strindberg), and soon dreams that she has murdered the woman.
As I say it in the title, the movie is really nicely edited a put together. There is some interesting imagery and symbolism, but you quickly ask yourself what good is any of that if the story is boring as ever.
"Lizard in a Woman's Skin" is part giallo whodunit, part striking, hallucinatory nightmare. Only one of these parts in successful.
Trippy psychothriller about a rich housewife who has erotic dreams about her neighbor. When one of these dreams turns violent, she wakes up the next day to find out that her neighbor had been killed and she's the lead suspect.
This film is gorgeous! The lighting, the shot, the locations...
I first saw this movie about ten years ago. The movie was released in the French speaking part of Belgium as 'Le Venin de la Peur'.
Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan) lives in a wealthy part of London in a flat with her Husband Frank (Jean Sorel) and stepdaughter Joan (Ely Galleani as Edy Gall). Carol is an insomniac and lately has been having strange and totally bizarre dreams about her next door neighbour Julia Durer (Anita Strindberg) that involve lesbianism, long boots and a fur coat, and who in reality holds drug and sex fuelled parties that annoy Carol, her family and the rest of their neighbours.