Tuesday 26 January 2010

Death Laid and Egg (1968, Giulio Questi)


This was the directors’ only giallo film. After the opening credits of beautiful microscopic close-ups of living organisms it all goes down hill. Marco has married Anna for money, which comes in the form of the chicken farm. Marco is having an affair with Anna’s cousin Gabriella and regularly kills prostitutes in hotel rooms. The storyline is confused and the film features dubbed dodgy voice actors (no option of subtitles) and annoying cacophonic instrumental music. The film is somewhat cheesy and a scene involving the ludicrous death of a dog crosses over into comedy. Headless wingless chickens are grown so they won’t need feeding and will have more meat. We get to see as one character with moral objections smashes one of the chickens into a mess of gristle. Although frequently strange the film is mainly uninteresting.
2.5/5

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