No One Heard the Scream, Euro-Babe Gets Rid of a Body

High class hookers!  We just don't get enough films with these hard working ladies as the protagonist. Leave it to a film from Spain, Euro-Trash, to give us a Euro-Babe high class hooker in much peril.  Unlike in most Giallo films, our babe today won't have her throat cut or be cut into little pieces.  This is good, because today's feature is the magnum opus of Carmen Sevilla...Spanish babe!  Today we look at 1973's "No One Heard the Scream," directed by Eloy de la Iglesia.

Elisa (Sevilla) is a high class call-girl...servicing old men all around Europe.  While home, on a well deserved break, she witnesses her stud neighbor, Miguel (Vincente Parra), tossing his wife's (Maria Asquerino) corpse down an elevator shaft.  Elisa is initially frightened she will then be offed.  Witnesses, especially babe witnesses, usually do not fare well in these films.  Miguel has a better idea.  He will force Elisa, at gunpoint, to assist him in disposing of the body.  By doing this, Elisa will be an accomplice and not call the cops.  Elisa has no choice but to go to the bottom of the shaft with Miguel, collect the wife's bloodied body, and help Miguel dispose of it.  What could go wrong?  A lot.

Funny...Elisa shows a calmness and is actually a terrific help for Miguel.  This doesn't worry the first time killer...though it probably should.  As the two involve themselves with this sordid endeavor, they learn more about one another.  Then they fall in love...or do they?  Indications abound that each one of them may be plotting the other's demise.  Passion will engulf them.  Steamy sex.  Frolicking baths.  French kissing.  Intimate conversation.  Twists abound and we start thinking there is more going on here. 

Will either Elisa or Miguel try to kill the other?  Why did Miguel murder his wife?  Is anything about Elisa innocent and naïve?  Carmen Sevilla is captivating and seduces in every frame of film she is in.  Miguel is quite the hunk and we want to believe he had a good reason to murder his nagging wife.  Steamy and fast-paced, "No One Heard the Scream" is a fun thriller filled with murder, passion, and steamy sex.