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Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)

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Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)

Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 6500kbps | 7.5Gb
Audio: #1 Italian AC3 1.0 @ 192Kbps | #2 German AC3 1.0 @ 192Kbps | Subtitles: English & German
01:30:45 | Italy | Thriller, Horror

While vacationing in Haiti with his wife Grace (Anita Strindberg), Fred Wright (Gabriel Tinti) decides to make an impromptu visit on an old friend, Williams (Anthony Steffen), a doctor.Fred's motives are not entirely pure, however, with it soon emerging that he is one of various parties interested in a new wonder drug that Williams has developed, some of whom will stop at nothing - including murder - to secure it for themselves.

Directors: Giampaolo Lomi, Edoardo Mulargia
Cast: Anthony Steffen, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti, Umberto Raho, Stelio Candelli, Gordon Felio, Kathryn Witt, Richard Osborne, Alfio Nicolosi, Bob Lemoine, Pierre Richard Merceron, Fred Ade

Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)

Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)


SYNOPSIS:
A scientist invents a hallucinatory drug. Interest of different dubious people in this new drug lead to betrayal and murder.

This rather underrated and lesser known Italian thriller certainly has its flaws, nonetheless it belongs to the most innovative films of its genre that was booming in the early 1970s. Thanks to its fresh ideas packed in a traditional Giallo plot, it really stands out of the bulk, even though 1972 is probably the most Giallo-intense year ever. The most remarkable moments include feverish dream sequences that are erotic and nightmarish at the same time. The dreams are induced by similarly feverish Haitian voodoo rituals that feature mondo-style animal killing (there is also a non-ritualistic animal killing shown in a slaughterhouse - traces of social comment, obviously).

The erotic moments are more frequent and sensual than in the average Giallo, and they are very well done (as already mentioned, especially the dreams). The body count is also above average, and in the second half, the movie boosts some murders as creative as they are brutal. It also delivers elements of the spy film genre - drugs can always be sold for big money. And the climax is not necessarily Giallo-typical.

The leading cast consists of genre regulars: Anthony Steffen plays the inventive scientist and Gabriele Tinti the "hero"; Anita Strindberg is Grace, the woman with the unnerving dreams. On the other hand, the two directors are barely known and none of them made another Giallo (Edoardo Mulargia shot a few Westerns and some Women-in-Prison stuff, but nothing really significant).

AL TROPICO DEL CANCRO is not a masterpiece, but it's a sleeper of the genre with enough original and surprising elements to make it highly recommendable to the fans of the genre.

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Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)

Tropic of Cancer / Al tropico del cancro (1972)