I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (1973)
Release Year: 1973
Nation: Italy
Alternative Title: Torso, Torso - Violencia carnal, Torzó, Kage naki inju, Торсо
Director: Sergio Martino
Writer: Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino
Production & Genre
Awards & Similar
Awards: N/A
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Keywords
Keywords: psychopath, swamp, murder, serial killer, slasher, whodunit, prostitution, maniac
Story
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Summary
The phrase "I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale" is primarily known as the original Italian title for the 1973 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino, internationally released as Torso.
A psychopath is brutally murdering young, attractive art students in an Italian university town, strangling them with a black and red scarf and dismembering their bodies. The police are baffled. One student, Daniela, suspects an odd fellow student named Stefano and, on the advice of her uncle, moves to a secluded villa in the countryside with her friends Jane, Katia, and Ursula to escape the mysterious killings. At the large estate, the young women initially feel safe. However, one night Jane, an American student, wakes up after taking painkillers for a sprained ankle to find her friends have been murdered by the killer who has followed them to the remote location. A tense game of cat and mouse ensues as Jane, effectively trapped and alone, tries to survive the night while the killer hunts her down, ultimately revealing his identity and psychopathic motivations stemming from a childhood trauma. The film is widely regarded as one of the most suspenseful sequences in the giallo genre.
