Maze of horror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Maze of horror |
| Original title | Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Umberto Lenzi |
| script | Umberto Lenzi Félix Tusell |
| production | Joseph Brenner |
| music | Bruno Nicolai |
| camera | Antonio Millán |
| cut | Amedeo Moriani |
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Labyrinth des Schreckens (original title: Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro ) is an Italian-Spanish crime film belonging to the genre of Giallo from 1975. It was directed by Umberto Lenzi , who also wrote the screenplay with Félix Tusell .
action
Alma Burton, a married mentally unstable, whose marriage to Mark, the owner of a marketing company in Vermont, is on the verge of divorce, is said to go to a mental hospital in New York for treatment. At the airport, however, she rescheduled at short notice and traveled via the Catalan city of Barcelona to Florida, Miami.
In the Spanish city meanwhile, a tour group of American tourists, which includes the secretary Paulette Stone, the lesbian photographer Lisa Sanders and her Afro-American model friend Naiba as well as several wealthy entrepreneurs, are exploring Barcelona's sights by bus. However, the illustrious tour company is soon shaken by a gruesome incident, an inexplicable and mysterious murder of a local. The victim, a young girl, is brutally killed by a killer who wears a red raincoat and who also stabs her left eye. Soon after, the attractive American Peggy becomes the next victim of the unknown serial killer, causing consternation among travelers.
The aging inspector Tudela, who is in his last working week before retirement, takes over the investigation together with his young successor. The police are initially in the dark, but soon suspect the perpetrator to be in the vicinity of the group, so that each of the travelers is formally classified as a potential murderer.
Mark Burton also soon joins the group that includes his secret lover, Paulette Stone. However, the series of murders does not end, and Mark briefly fears that his unstable wife might be the wanted killer, whom he once found lying on the floor with a bloody knife in her hand and one eye next to him. He kept this incident quiet at the time and even covered the tracks so as not to endanger his marriage. He secretly believes his wife Alma, whom he currently suspects to be somewhere in Barcelona, is suspect. He initially withheld this fact from the authorities.
Shortly after the murder of the photographer Lisa Sanders, who succeeds in taking an incriminating shot of the serial killer Paulette, who was exposed at the end of the film, her partner Naiba disturbs the female perpetrator so that Paulette, contrary to previous acts, does not mutilate her victim. Nevertheless, the series of murders does not end and the number of tourists continues to decimate until the serial killer can be caught in the act at the end of the film. In the presence of Naiba and Mark, the inspector fatally injures Paulette, who is angry and armed with a knife. In addition to jealousy and her missing left eye in an accident as a child, the motif is that she has since been incorporated by her murdered victims.
In the final scene of the film, the young inspector congratulates his experienced predecessor, who managed to solve the tricky series of murders within a week. Mark also phones his wife Alma in a conciliatory manner, giving her another chance to save his tattered marriage.
Reviews
“A late and superfluous publication by Umberto Lenzi, who has made a name for himself as a representative of the equally coarse and colorful Mediterranean thriller variant" Giallo "(yellow) and tried to impress his fan base with gouged out the victims' eyeballs. A crime thriller that is staged without great ambitions, is not always entirely logical and that shows its age and production time. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the film and the FSK approval on Schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Labyrinth of Terror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Labyrinth of terror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Labyrinth of Terror in the online movie database