Edwige Fenech and George Hilton star in this entertaining giallo from director Giuliano (the Sartana series) Carnimeo. Edwige plays Jennifer, a fashion model who is a refugee from a sex cult. The leader Adam (Ben Carra) keeps stalking her and tries to lure her back into the fold. Meanwhile, a killer is going around and murdering beautiful women. Jennifer just so happens to move into the apartment building where the previous murder took place and predictably, the killer zeroes in on her for his next target. Before long, poor old Andrea (Hilton) becomes the prime suspect, if only because he wigs out at the sight of blood.
Things kick off with a decent little murder in an elevator. Carnimeo paces it smoothly with lots of shots of people entering and exiting the elevator before our doomed victim is alone with the killer and gets the shaft… so to speak. (This sequence could be seen as a sort of precursor to the similar scene in Brian DePalma’s Dressed to Kill.) There’s also a drowning in a bathtub and an effective moment when Fenech’s friend is knifed in broad daylight.
Edwige is achingly beautiful throughout and looks amazing in a variety of three-piece suit ensembles. She’s so hot that just admiring her pulchritude will take your mind off the plot whenever it starts spinning its wheels. She also has a fun modeling scene where she poses for a flamboyant photographer while wearing a sexy painted-on T-shirt. I also enjoyed the flashbacks to the sex cult where she rolls around naked while covered in flowers. Her sex scene with Hilton on a shag rug is pretty good too. Carla Brait also has a memorable scene where she challenges men to wrestle as a part of her nightclub act.
The last act where Edwige becomes suspicious of her neighbors is fun. It’s here where the killer chases Fenech around in junkyards and boiler rooms. She’s incredibly sexy in these scenes too, even while she’s scared out of her wits. Sure, there may be some bumps in the road along the way, but whenever Edwige is front and center, you can’t take your eyes off The Case of the Bloody Iris.
AKA: Jennifer. AKA: Erotic Blue. AKA: What are Those Strange Drops of Blood Doing on Jennifer’s Body? AKA: Why are Those Strange Drops of Blood on the Body of Jennifer?
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