SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Wizard-8 "Naked Violence" is a crime movie different than some of director Fernando Di Lio's other crime movies, being that it is not action- oriented. Instead, it's a relatively serious and sober look at a rape- murder and the subsequent investigation of it. Parts of this investigation are definitely interesting, the most being the angle of the movie being the teenagers who witnessed the crime but are unwilling to talk about it; it sometimes comes across as an early version of the American movie "River's Edge". However, this angle is eventually more or less abandoned, and the movie becomes somewhat tedious and slow in its second half. Does the movie still have enough interest to make it worth a look? Maybe. If you are interested in seeing a cinematic police investigation that is more realistic than usual, and have enjoyed other movies by Di Lio before, this may be an interesting change of pace.

Bezenby Fernando De Leo at first seems to usher in the no holds barred approach to gialli during the credits of this film by having a teacher pounced upon, raped and killed by her entire class of teenage deliquents. Further still, it looks like we're up for a tense police interrogation of the entire class one by one which will involve a lot of screaming, police brutality, and double-crossing.And that's the way it plays out, for about half an hour, and it's a good half an hour. Nearly every single one of these lads is a soulless monster, a product of their environment, and they all maintain their innocence. Our policeman hero has been ordered not to beat any of the prisoners, but he still screams in their face and makes them sit in a pool of super strength booze (which is partly blamed for the attack - but who gave them it?).At this point someone must have pointed out to De Leo that the plot wasn't 'giallo' enough, and therefore all the tension that's built up over the course of the first third of the film dissipates as our cop (with a social worker sidekick) go off looking for some mysterious woman that one of the prisoners mentioned. So that's all our suspects, that we're introduced to one by one, dumped in a favour of the usual giallo person. There's also another plot diversion when our police guy decides the best way to get the truth is to take one of the teenagers home and treat him like he's a normal person - eventually this does lead somewhere, but where it leads to is the unmasking of someone as the main instigator of the attack, and it took me a few seconds to actually recognise who it was.I can't help but feel that if De Leo concentrated only on the pupils in the class we may have ended up with a better film. Who knows? De Leo's next film was The Beast Killed In Cold Blood - a straight forward giallo with over the top gore and nudie bits, and that most terrifying thing of all - Klaus Kinski!

radiobirdma Be True to Your School: In Milano, a teacher is raped and killed by a class of booze-fueled students, but when the Commissario gives the teener pack the bad cop routine, he hits a wall of silence. Fernando di Leo's fifth film comes along as a predominantly lukewarm, actionless talkie and tries to surf the social commentary wave, a ludicrous endeavour that completely falls to pieces after the first half. Though Pier Paolo Capponi as the tough investigator gives a superb performance – erm, what for? –, soon-to-be Miss Ravishing Italia Nieves Navarro ("The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Beyond Suspicion") is wholly wasted as a mousy social worker, Silvano Spaddacino's soundtrack a jittery alarm-clock pain in the ass, and after 80 minutes of pointless drivel, brace yourself for the cross-dresser jack-in-the-box all of a sudden jumping out of Giorgio Scerbanenco's stenchy script: The conclusion featuring the gross transvestite from transsexual Aniseedonia – presaged with not even the friggin' slightest hint – tops almost any nonsensical rubbish denouement from the giallo department (think Argento's Opera) with mind-blowing panache. As an Emilio Miraglia c-flick, this lesson in ineptitude and stupidità would have been titled "The Closet Queen Kills Two Times", but since di Leo undoubtedly had had the lion's share of the liquor himself he couldn't even come up with a catchy title. And the hangover lasted: Unbelievable, but his next try, Asylum Erotica, is even worse.

Stefano Fiore The teacher of an evening school for youngsters with social problems is brutally raped and murdered right in her classroom. The only suspects are on the kids of course and the police is surprised to find them all quietly in their homes instead of having escaped. There is a reason. Each kid declares that he did not participate in the brutality but was forced to watch. The police officer Lamberti has reasons to believe that someone, an adult, has orchestrated the kids which are afraid to even mention this person. It will not be an easy case.Fernando Di Leo takes us for this incredible trip among juvenile delinquency. Although the movie was made in 1969, Di Leo talks about drugs, veneral diseases, prostitution, transvestism, teenagers having sex with old women, homosexuality and incest much in advance compared to what still had to come in our society.Fernando Di Leo delivers us a very interesting movie technically superb. The interrogation of the youngsters is done in a very sharp style. The rape scene, although very impressive, is simply done with a camera movement. The suspense is well built. Pier Paolo Capponi offers us an excellent interpretation. With him we have Livia Ussaro more interested in the social aspects of the youngsters: "The police doesn't care about the kids, who they are, what they wanted to be, what they do and why they do it, if they have feelings. They are considered criminals and that's all..." But for inspector Lamberti these words will not remain unheard. To solve the case he will also have to consider these aspects.Fernando Di Leo. One of Italy's most interesting directors.