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Strip Nude For Your Killer
[Blue Underground]
1975; color
Directed by Andrea Bianchi
Starring: Edwige Fenech, Nino Castelnuovo, Femi Benussi & Solvi Stubing
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Strip Nude For Your Killer certainly deserves an extra point for an extra catchy title but I'm not sure I would rank it among the best of the available Giallo films. On the other hand, if you're coming to a movie like this looking for numerous scenes featuring blood, boobs, and bloody boobs, you probably won't be disappointed. In the establishing scene we see a pretty young woman with her legs in stirrups and quickly realize this unfortunate lass is not splayed on this examining table in order to get her annual check-up, but to receive a not- exactly-back-alley back alley abortion. (A back-alley abortionist, in my mind, wouldn't necessarily have a white room with all sorts of medical mumbo jumbo, complete with one of those little 4-wheeled carts with the white paper lined trays offering recently sterilized speculums and whatnot, just like at my gynecologist's office; but by the same token, a regular ol' gynecologist who finds himself with a dead patient doesn't just dump her body off at her apartment and wander off in the night like nothing happened. Therefore we must assume this fella is sans PhD.) As alluded to in that aside, things go horribly wrong and the woman dies. (As is the case with many a back-alley abortion; that's how the industry got a bad rap in the first place!) This, in turn, prompts the "doctor" to get a friend of his to help him take the dead girl's body back to her apartment, dump her into the bathtub, turn on the water and split. Such an abomination of the Hippocratic oath can only lead to one thing - well, in these movies anyway - and that is murderous revenge of the bloody and brutal fashion brought on my a masked assassin. And that's exactly what happens. Speaking of fashion, as fate would have it, the victim of the deadly procedure was a model and the ever increasing list of victims, as well as the list of possible suspects, all have an involvement with the agency where she worked. (Hmmm, murder in the fashion industry; I wonder where they got that idea?) Naturally, the job description in itself offers a lot of legitimate reasons for a model to be nude but these particular models manage to find plenty of other reasons to strip, and some more to just kind of walk around in various stages of undress, during the course of the film. Although not necessarily for their killer. A more accurate description of the remainder of the film would be "strip nude and then within ten minutes you will be killed, unless you're Edwige Fenech or the dude that plays her boyfriend; until those two eventually capture, unmask, and witness the death of the killer" but even I will admit, that's nowhere near as catchy a title as what they went with. Needless to say, Strip Nude For Your Killer borrows quite a bit from Blood And Black Lace, both in the storyline and it's overall tone, but it lacks much of Bava's film's panache. It also suffers from some extremely clunky dubbing and way too many paunchy naked European dudes. (OK, fine, there were only two; but one is too many.) On the plus side, it had Edwige Fenech sporting a rather fetching Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles meets Sharon Mitchell look and the pace does pick up quite a bit towards the end of the film where the list of possible suspects gets whittled down in relation to who's been killed.
—Bunny
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