Giallo! Can't beat it. It's allure. It's gore. It's bad dubbing. It's sweaty nakedness. The most beautiful of Europe's Euro-Babes die so horribly in these films, many times in states of undress and in the throes of carnal relations. Today we have a classic Giallo film hitting all the tropes. Our feature today is 1972's "Amuck!" This film, directed by Silvia Amadio, relies on deviant sexual practices and orgies...much like today's Washington, DC power brokers and Big Hollywood.
Greta (Barbara Bouchet) gets a job as the secretary for novelist Richard (Farley Granger). She's a doll! Loves wearing tight stuff and miniskirts. Richard has a nymphomaniac, bisexual wife, Eleanora (Rosalba Neri). She takes a lustful liking to Greta. Okay, Greta is on a personal mission. Her bestie Sally (Patrizia Viotti) was the former secretary of Richard and went missing while in his employment. She sent Greta letters hinting at sexual deviance and being pulled into bacchanal lifestyles. Greta wants to find out what happened to her friend...and is also very aroused and curious about this bacchanal lifestyle hinted at by Sally. Early on, Eleanora will drug Greta, undress her, and have wild lesbian sex with Greta. Is Greta a willing participant? Richard also seems to fall in love with her.
Greta snoops and soon Richard and Eleanora realize she has a motive apart from typing up Stuart's manuscripts. Eleanora will include Greta in orgies and even invite a brute fisherman (Petar Martinovitch) who loves strangling babes. Eleanora displays a sensual side toward Greta and Greta allows her, either figuring information will be gotten from her easier...or she likes it. Richard feeds Greta clues in the form of his manuscripts, or is he just luring Greta to her doom? The nakedness, bacchanal carnality, and murder will explode off the screen.
Does Greta really want to solve her buddy's disappearance or is she looking to join a bacchanal lifestyle? Will Eleanora or Richard try to murder Greta while in the throes of passion? Just what necessitated Sally's disappearance? This one will send you to the showers. Erotic as any Giallo offering, "Amuck!" highlights the attributes, all the attributes, of Ms. Neri and Ms. Bouchet nicely.
