Swan song by Silvio Amadio. Such a long retelling of the film in the announcement just does him the honor, despite the fact that it is told only to the middle.
This is the best, best Amadeo movie I've ever seen. Famous sexploitation comedies (with Guida) and the same thrillers, the director shot a completely viewable thriller, which combined his love for eroticism and a tense plot. It is noteworthy that the script was written by him. However, the film is not without self-repeats. Once again, the action takes place on a remote island where a famous writer lives. This, according to the director, gives additional mystery to the plot, although I did not notice it by the action of the film. We will consider this a fetish of the author (see "Dangerous Age").
The most important attraction is that the director managed to collect and clearly show in one picture Rosalba Neri and Barbara Boucher, the stars of sex work of that period. There is even a love scene between them. Already for this film can be put in the fund of genre films of the 70s. Only Edwige Fenek was missing there on the rise of his career. (As we know later, Fenek will star with Barbara Boucher, but in completely insignificant films.)
This film is glued according to the canons of suspense, in many ways Amadeo was guided by Hitchcock, and the main role in the film was given to Farley Granger, who starred in the same Rope. Moreover, Granger plays almost himself - a writer leading a bohemian lifestyle, not shy of sexual pleasures and perversions.
At the same time, our attention is more focused on the stupid Bush, who was noted for another series of sexual scenes. The scenes are quite beautiful and professional. It seems that the whole Playboy (video app to the magazine) of the 80s and 90s was guided by this manner of shooting their naked models. There is also a scene at the waterfall, a scene with a glass falling into slow-mo from the hands of a drunk beauty - a set of templates issued very good for 20 years ahead.
Later, Amadio exchanged the pretentiousness of shooting in thrillers for the vulgar bullying of skirts in teenage comedies and replaced suspense with pseudo-fun of sexual experiences, but so the conjuncture demanded.
Here we have a smoothly built thriller, with a mandatory exit from behind the stove in the final, quite strained as it happens in exploitation, but not spoiling the whole picture.
The English version of the name Amuck is not bad, because the main character of the picture, in my opinion, suddenly becomes rabies, or rabid. Since, with all due respect to Bush, her acting abilities are not ahead of her external data, and Farley Granger did not want to focus on the director himself. But that's just my view.
Rosalba Neri is unexpectedly good, and the role for her is unfolded and successful, but still of the second plan.
So, look at the title of the review. One of the best films in the genre of exploitation.