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Naked You Die

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In the DVD's delightfully lurid cover art, a shadowy killer strangles a young blonde whose aroused breasts poke through her underwear. An ancient city burns red in the distance. The text promises "a macabre tale of murder at an all-girls school." In fact, it's fun tale of murder at an all-girls school. This Italian whodunnit from 1968 is more Agatha Christy than Mario Bava (who wrote some of the story). Charming performances from the young cast, especially the British actress Sally Smith as a Nancy Drew wannabe. Michael Rennie wanders through as an inspector. In Italian, first time in the States in an uncut version. "Naked You Die" is the translation of the Italian title. In the States, AIP hacked 15 minutes out of the film and dubbed it "The Young, the Evil and the Savage," which pretty much sums up nothing. Worth seeing for the opening nude bathtube slaying alone.

This flick from 1968 is a decent giallo thriller. In which a black gloved killer is on the loose at a girlschool. The violence in this would be comparable to any movie that came before. Although there is nudity, which a American movie would have never allowed, and of course Mario bava helped write the story. But his movies were even a few years earlier just a little more explicit in their violence. The story is a decent
giallo story that takes place in a girlsschool. If you like murder mysteries from europe and giallo thrillers and don't the expect wild frenzied
action and sleazier nudity of giallos from 1970 onward, then you will like this flick. . This movie reminded me a good mystery flick from Alfred Hitchcock. And it has the excellent Michael Rennie as the lead dectective. And the flick even has a cool 1960's rock song theme. This is just a fun flick and it reminded me of how much I loved those british
mysteries like miss marple etc because they tell a good story, and have good acting in them as well.