A woman dreams that she kills her slutty next door neighbor, and then the neighbor is found dead, leading the woman to think she's going mad. A hazy Lucio Fulci murder mystery with blackmail, sexy lesbians and tripped out hippies. A cavalcade of bizarre visuals and a creepy score by Ennio Morricone do a great job of conveying the twisted dream logic that dominates a lot of the film. Unlike many Italian giallos, the explanation at the end actually makes sense.

Decadent, lush and hallucinatory. The first scenes in particular are spellbinding as we lose ourselves in Carol's strange, erotic nightmares. Although it grows a little too talky and long in places, the film remains one of the most accomplished and elegant efforts in the giallo genre.

Very Nice

Thoughtful - and at times seductive - cinematography and mise-en-scène makes this Fulci-dish at times spellbinding, but too much (trivial and uninteresting) talk makes the film dull and lifeless where it could've been colourful and delicious. Partly fascinating, but ultimately ineffectual.

Fulci takes his interest in mood and the abstract to a further level. Sadly however he is stuck with a dull and convoluted mystery which he should have ditched and made the film more about everything else like his Don't Torture A Duckling (1972) would be.

Well, this one's very dated, the hippies. the psychoanalysis, and particularly the obscene abuse of the zoom lens, but damn is it cool. Aggressively inventive, surreal, tense, and even pretty good acting which is rare for the genre. I was quite impressed.