"Giallo a Venezia" is,without a doubt,one of the sleaziest movies ever produced in Italy.Along with "The New York Ripper" (1982, Lucio Fulci) and "The Killer Is Still Among Us" (1985, Camillo Teti) this is possibly the nastiest giallo ever made.The film begins with a double murder on the Venetian docks:architect Fabio (Gianni Dei) is stabbed with a pair of scissors,while his wife Flavia (Leonora Fani) is drowned.The fact that Flavia was pulled back from the water by the killer after being drowned, intrigues inspector DePaul (Jeff Blynn) and his assistant Maestrin. As they begin investigating friends of the couple, such as Marizia (Mariangela Giordano from "Burial Ground" and "Malabimba" ), they soon discover that Fabio was in fact a sex crazed cocaine addict, who could only achieve sexual gratification by violence and sick voyeurism put upon his wife. During the investigation Marizia begins to receive threatening phone calls from ex-lover and soon after that a series of brutal murders is set in motion. Director Mario Landi ("Patrick Still Lives") fails to create any suspense or mystery. What Landi looses in mystery he more than makes up for with some of the most brutal violence and sex ever put on the screen. The violence in "Giallo a Venezia" is truly shocking. A prostitute is stabbed repeatedly in the crotch in one of the most sickeningly audacious murder sequences ever filmed. Another gory highlights include Giordano being tied naked to her kitchen table and having her leg cut off with a handsaw by the killer and Marizia's lover being doused in gasoline and set alight. The long sex scenes are pretty explicit and it's quite obvious that Landi's intentions were only to show as much sex and blood as he could. To sum up, if you like sleaze and extreme gore then you should check this one out. Recommended!

Картина "Ночные пришельцы" является своего рода приквэлом классической повести Генри Джеймса «Поворот винта» , в которой гувернантка, нанятая для воспитания двух детей, узнает о навязчивом кошмаре, преследующем их. Майкл Виннер предлагает свой вариант появления призраков — по его версии, дети причастны к убийству отъявленного негодяя Куинта, одержимого патологическими комплексами, и жертвы его мучений — мисс Джессел, прежней воспитательницы...

In Victorian England, the teenagers Flora and her brother Miles have just lost their parents in a car accident in France. Their tutor decides to leave the children alone in their huge mansion under the care of the old housekeeper Mrs. Grose, the governess Miss Jessel and the gardener Peter Quint. Miles and Flore are very connected to Peter, who misleads their education with twisted concepts of love and death, but the orphans believe and are fascinated by his knowledge. Peter is the lover of Jessel, and they use to have sadomasochistic sex. When Peter sees their kink bondage night of sex, he has a corrupted and perverted sexual initiation. When Mrs. Grose writes to the master of the house to fire Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, Flora and Miles plot a dark scheme to keep them together in the property.