Nude for Satan
I can’t really do better than the stock TV guide summary for this one – it is, indeed, a “sleazy Italian horror”, lol. Switching on midway, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a far better Dario Argento movie – the camera style, the music, the disembodied dubbed voices, are all very familiar – but if you stuck it out you’d find yourself incredibly disappointed. The story makes little sense, if any; and if you’re looking for gore, you’d be better off with an episode of E.R. Of course, if you’re drawn in by the title (and what 13-year-old boy wouldn’t be?), you certainly won’t be disappointed by the nudity – the movie opens with an inexplicable shot of a woman running naked through a forest, a kinky scene where the heroine’s clothes disappear, and even what has been described recently on the IMDb message board as, “Seventies-style porn!” towards the end. That may or may not be enough to take your mind off the god-awful fake spider effect. I almost want to give this 2 stars ‘cos even I don’t mind seeing boobies every now and then … but then, even The Wicker Man has those, so I’m going to be sensible and give it 1 … I mean, it’s at least unique …