A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Una Lucertola con la pelle di donna)
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- Florinda Bolkan
- Jean Sorel
- Stanley Baker
- Leo Genn
- Silvia Monti
- Penny Brown
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- Jan 22, 2016
"What the modern movie lacks is beauty,” said D.W. Griffith, melancholy at the end of the a long career, “the beauty of the moving wind in the fur coat of a gorgeous woman right before she stabs her lesbian lover to death with a pen knife as two zonked out hippies watch…
lairdMar 20, 2025I know I come off as cold with most giallo directors and I am just a fickle sailor who wants a story arc and I have to say Fulci balances it quite well here with this material cause for one it really looks spectaculer with it's radiant tone and hell we get another killer…
pirateneckbeardOct 16, 2023Spooktober IV: Morte all'italiana A hair blow of an opening gives start to one of Fulci’s most ethereal and trippy movies, which is saying a lot in a filmography packed with lots of them. What follows is an intriguing giallo with plenty of twists and turn where you think…
Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine - May 11, 2026
FUN FACT: it would take roughly 6600 geckos to fill a woman’s skin assuming she is of average size and stature. Fulci’s earliest works like this one are more like a version of a Hitchcock mystery, it would take some time and evolution to land on the things Fulci is best…
Digital PressSep 21, 2015Beautifully fractured editing. I love the streams of jump cuts and outre psycho-sexual tableau in the dream sequences. I think they may be among the most captivating images Fulci has captured. And I've been so impressed by the tautness (questionable police procedures…
clareOct 24, 2022Maybe porn would have been considered high art if Morricone had musicalized some.
CinemaVoid 🏴☠️ - Jan 28, 2021
74 What an opening sequence! Such a dreamy film overall - balances the uneasiness of Fulci's plotting with the hysteria of hippie panic.
SilentDawnMay 27, 2021#Giallo Wet dreams sprinkled with blood. Naked bodies grating against each other in a whitewashed corridor. Passionate kisses down your neck and the paper knife clutched in your hand. Three quick stabs and her wounds weeping the tainted blood of her existence. Morbid…
Lara PopJul 24, 2025“don’t let your imagination get away from you.” I had a seriously good time with this one. It’s a bizarre, viscerally sharp exploration of repression, blurring the lines between inner fantasy and outer reality. 1971’s A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin lays bare the trapped…
Tim Fehrenbach
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- Florinda Bolkan as Carol Hammond
- Jean Sorel as Frank Hammond
- Stanley Baker as Inspector Corvin
- Leo Genn as Edmond Brighton
- Silvia Monti as Deborah
- Penny Brown as Jenny