Английская Википедия:Formula for a Murder

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Formula for a Murder (Шаблон:Lang-it) is a 1985 Italian giallo filmШаблон:Sfn co-written and directed by Alberto De Martino.Шаблон:Sfn

The film was shot in Boston and Italy, and was one of the last films directed by De Martino. When it was released in Italy, it war marketed as a more traditional horror film, while retrospective analysis compared it to 1960s thrillers such as Taste of Fear (1961).

Plot

A handsome teacher named Craig marries a wealthy, wheelchair-using woman named Joanna who suffers from PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. As a child, she was raped by a psychotic priest and thrown down a flight of stairs. The priest used a doll to lure her to the crime scene.

Her attractive female caretaker Ruth has a lesbian attraction to her and tries to stop the marriage. As if Joanna doesn't have enough problems, her husband only married her to steal her money. He is trying to stop her from donating one-half of her wealth to a church project to which her deceased father committed her while upon his deathbed.

One by one, priests start turning up dead, as the murder plot unfolds. One priest has his throat cut while in a confession booth, another has his head bashed in with a heavy blunt object. Joanna's doctor warns her that she has a bad heart and that she shouldn't allow herself to get overly agitated nor too aroused during sex. Joanna begins to experience hallucinations in which she sees a leering priest stalking her while holding a bloody doll in his hands.

Cast

Production

Formula for a Murder was filmed under the title Formula per un delitto.Шаблон:Sfn It was shot in Boston with interiors scenes done in Italy.Шаблон:Sfn Director Alberto De Martino stated he initially wanted to cast two young Italian actors: Valeria Golino and Nancy Brilli, but his casting choices were rejected by producer Fabrizio De Angelis.Шаблон:Sfn Both were replaced with American actors while the Golino and Brilli went on to have prominent careers in Italy.Шаблон:Sfn

De Martino described the film as his own variation on the film The Postman Always Rings Twice.Шаблон:Sfn Historians and critics Adrian Luther-Smith and Roberto Curti both pointed out that the film closer resembled the Hammer production Taste of Fear (1961) more.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Historian Troy Howarth echoed this statement saying that the film "harkens back to the "women in peril" thrillers of the 1960s" and "does not enter into the excessive spirit of the other gialli of the period."Шаблон:Sfn The film was one of De Martino's final productions, as he retired from directing in the mid-1980s.Шаблон:Sfn

Release

Formula for a Murder was released in 1985.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In Italy, it was released as 7, Hyden Park – La casa maledetta. Film critic and historian Roberto Curti stated this title was more akin to being an "out-and-out horror film" like The Evil Dead (1981) which was released in Italy as La casa.Шаблон:Sfn De Martino was reportedly unhappy with the film, being constrained by an eighteen day shooting schedule.Шаблон:Sfn The film was released in Greece on home video as Formula For a Murder.Шаблон:Sfn It was released on DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment.Шаблон:Sfn

Reception

In a contemporary review from Corriere della Sera, the film is praised for its well conceived screenplay, but the second part of the film is criticized for its descent into grand guignol and its loss of tension, which reduces the film to a duel/game between victim and murderer.Шаблон:Sfn From retrospective reviews, in his book about Italian thriller films, Blood & Black Lace, Adrian Luther-Smith found the film to be an "enjoyably over-the-top exercise in grand guignol" and compared it to Шаблон:Ill's Шаблон:Ill, stating that the film "demonstrates how similarly themed material can be ruined by a static attitude."Шаблон:Sfn Curti stated in his book on Italian giallo that the film exposes its villain early at the half an hour mark and that David Warbeck "hams it up shamelessly" towards the third act, resembling a "Jack Nicholson-wannabe".Шаблон:Sfn In his book So Deadly, So Perverse on giallo, Troy Howarth stated that the film "not exactly loaded with surprises" while stating that the "murders are surprisingly brutal and bloody".Шаблон:Sfn

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