HumanoidOfFlesh Wealthy financier Johan Wallenberger is murdered in a House of Horrors of Madrid amusement park.His daughter Catherine(Pilar Velazquez)is taunted by mysterious and highly menacing phone calls and stalked by a stranger.An investigator from insurance company named Chris(Robert Hoffman)comes to Catherine's mansion where her wealthy family lives including her often drinking mother Magda(Irina Demick)and her sexually active elder sister Barbara(Patrizia Adiutori)who will be later found naked and slashed in the park.Mediocre giallo directed by highly prolific Italian director Alfonso Brescia.The film is poorly paced and quite tedious at times.Still Spanish scenery is wonderful and there is plenty of nudity.There is an interesting back story about Nazi war criminals and pretty unexpected climax.6 razors out of 10.

ronringhoffer Fun but hard to find Giallo. Contains spoilers. The movie has a decent cast and is directed by an excellent director, Alfonso Brescia. The movie features all very attractive actors in the leading roles. The male lead is Robert Hoffman who has starred in many excellent Giallos including Death Carries a Cane, Sergio Martino's Spasmo, and many others. Robert Hoffman is an excellent leading man. He is hired to meet up with a beautiful daughter of a man who just died 1 day after taking out a 1 million dollar insurance policy. The beautiful daughter is played by Pilar Velazquez who starred in several excellent films of the time including Churchill's Leopards with Klaus Kinski and the exciting Fernando Baldi spaghetti western Forgotten Pistolero. Pilar Velazquez has a beautiful (and young looking) mother played by Irena Demick and a sexy sister played by Patrizia Adiutori. Irena Demick is best known from movies like These Magnificent Mmen in Their Flying Machines, The Visit with Ingrid Bergman, and The Sicilian Clan starring Alain Delon. Irena Demick is very attractive and she makes a play for Robert Hoffman, who is dating her daughter, Pilar Velazquez. The other sister is played by Patrizia Adiutori who looks really nice but can't seem to keep her clothes on. She is shown having soft core sex with her boyfriend. She then has a romp with our leading man Robert Hoffman (the lucky guy) and then is found dead lying outside nude. She is the title of the movie The Nude Girl in the Park. There are several twists at the end of the movie. I don't want to ruin them for you. I would recommend the movie for fans of Giallos. The movie is nothing to write home about but it isn't bad either. The good cast including Adolfo "Thunderball" Celi as the police inspector, is definitely solid and above average. The women all look great and the movie has a fun feel to it. I have only seen this available as a bootleg on DVD-r. I would really enjoy seeing an official release of this.

lazarillo The best thing I can say about this minor giallo is that there really IS a naked girl killed in a park. In fact, as per the Italian title there is a COMPLETELY naked girl killed in a park. (There's a couple other naked girls too, but only one of them is killed in a park). That's pretty much the highlight of the movie though.It starts off in a pretty interesting way with the first-person POV of a funhouse ride which turns out to be from the POV of a dead man!The dead man had just bought a million dollar life insurance, so an intrepid insurance investigator (Robert Hoffman) is called in. He dodges the police investigator on the case (former Bond villain Adolf Celli)and becomes involved with the man's two sexy but neurotic daughters as well as his sexy but neurotic widow (who judging by the looks of her must have given birth to her two daughters when she was about ten). More people die before the final revelation which, unfortunately, is pretty stupid and involves the guilty party delivering a ridiculous soliloquy to a giant portrait of the dead man. It ends back in the amusement park with yet another pretty dumb turn of events.The lead Hoffman is awful, but Celli is pretty good if underused. The women are pretty, but they're definitely not at the acting level of an Edwige Fenech, Rosalba Neri, or Erica Blanc, or even lesser lights of the gialli like Nieves Navarro or Femi Benussi. Pretty forgettable overall--except for the naked girl killed in park.

rundbauchdodo There is a bunch of Gialli that tell a story about an inheritance. Most of them tend to be rather crime movies than Gialli in the classic sense.This film by Alfonso Brescia also tells a story about an inheritance that spreads murder, and in the first half of the film, only one killing happens (in the opening scene), and then the film goes on rather as a family drama than a Giallo. But in the middle of the film, the title happens (a member of the family is indeed found nude and killed in a park), and from now on, it's a typical Giallo. The bodies are piling up (the murder scenes are not very graphic, but there are some stylish moments), and towards the climax, there is the usual surprise as the identity of the killer is revealed. The revelation is as implausible as often with Gialli, but it works better than in other similarly mediocre ones.Brescia's direction is nothing special, the lead actors are only average, but there is some fine supporting cast lead by Adolfo Celi as the investigating Police inspector. So, the first half is a bit dreary, but the second half is surely capable of satisfying Giallo afficionados.