Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Delight
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Sam Panico
When a movie starts with a fashion model dying during a back alley abortion and it being covered up as a drowning, all before the opening credits, you know that you're in for something demented. When you realize that the film was written and directed by Andrea Bianchi, who brought us Burial Ground, then you're either going to run screaming or sit down and pay attention.The doctor who performed the operation is killed by a mmotorcyclesuit wearing maniac, but nobody at the Albatross Modeling Agency cares. All Carlo, the head photographer, cares about is using his modeling connections to pick up women. That's how he meets Lucia (Femi Benussi, Hatchet for the Honeymoon), who he takes from the steam room to the modeling agency.Magda (Edwich Fenech!) is jealous, so she surprises Carlo with some black lace and they begin an affair. We then see a photo of the main agency members, like Mario, Magda, Carlo, Stefano, Dorris, Maurizio and his wife and the owner of the studio Gisella. There's one other person in the photo - Evelyn, who we saw die in the beginning.Mario heads home and the killer shows up. When their helmet is removed, Mario knows the killer. But it's too late. He's dead now. The killer takes the photo so that they have a checklist of who to kill.So then there's Mauirizio, who is cheating on his wife with a prostitute. He takes her on a crazy ride through the streets and then takes her back to his place, when he begs and threatens her life before she suddenly wants to have sex with him - because you know, that's how things worked in the 1970's - before he lasts all of a minute and starts embracing his blow up doll. Honestly, what the? Of course, he's killed right afterward. Good riddance.Carlo later witnesses Gisella being murdered and even photographs the attack, but he's hurt in a hit and run accident. While he's recovering, Magda develops the film but the killer ruins the negatives.After killing Doris and Stefano, the murder tries to kill Carlo and Magda, but the killer is knocked down the stairs. So who is it? New model Patrizia - Evelyn's sister - who blames him for her sister's death. However, she dies before she can tell the police of his involvement.Seriously, the title of this film pretty much says it all. It's the most nudity I've ever seen in a movie. And it's pretty much one of the most lurid I've seen, too. I have no idea if Bianchi intended this as a comedy, but it certainly feels like one.It's almost amazing that a movie with this much nudity and mayhem moves at such a glacial pace. It felt like the first hour of the film was the entire running time! Even worse, this movie is pretty much wall to wall misogyny. I know, I know, that's the majority of giallo, but here it feels so overwhelming and so alien when seen with today's eyes.
Leofwine_draca
Despite the crassly exploitative title, which offers up unimaginable sleaze and depravity, STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER is actually a rather straightforward and down-to-earth giallo yarn, albeit one littered with nudity and gory violence. The plot kicks off with a nasty abortion, followed by a woman's body being dumped in a bath (!?!) and soon enough a string of graphic slayings are taking place. The killer this time around is an asexual figure in a motorbike helmet who slashes their usually naked victims to death. This work of trash is directed by Andrea Bianchi, best known for his zombie epic BURIAL GROUND, working with a bigger budget than usual and displaying a certain visual flair not seen in his later work.As is usual for the genre, the dubbing is unbelievable and the characters rather cheesy, including an obese womaniser who only finds love from his blow-up doll! The acting is unmemorable but the cast attractive, especially the female performers who spend most of their scenes in the nude. Edwige Fenech takes the leading role, giving the film a female protagonist for a change, and makes quite an impression. The use of a fashion house as a setting for the murders recalls Bava's BLOOD & BLACK LACE but this is far from the intricate masterpiece of that movie; instead, this is an occasionally confusing but mainly solid giallo enterprise offering plenty of exploitation and a minimum of intelligence. The gore effects are cheap but plentiful. Fun for genre connoisseurs, unfulfiling for others.
wvisser-leusden
'Nude per l'assassino' is a seldom example of a Seventies-sleaze film, able to put its lavish amount of nudity in the shade of a thrilling plot.In other words: never mind all nudity, for in its tense and plot-building 'Nude per l'assassino' is truly first-class. Reminding us of Hitchcock.Being Italian, it goes without saying that its tasty & well-chosen picturing adds pretty much to your pleasure of watching. In spite of being done in the cheap, even to Seventies-standards.However, the most important weakness of this film is the quality of its acting. In this you recognize its B-status, in which 'Nude per l'assassino' was meant to be shot. As I said, it comes out much better.
lastliberal
There is nothing like Italian Giallo to get your heart pumping, and Giallo with the lovely Edwige Fenech is something to see.One of the fun features of Giallo, and this film, is that naked women don't bother to cover up with a robe while they are creeping around the house looking for someone who breaks in. The rich red blood on the creamy white skin makes an interesting contrast. Of course, it does get a little gory at times.Franco Diogene was absolutely hilarious as the lecherous husband of the model agency owner (Amanda). Seeing him in his tighty whiteys with a blowup doll in one hand and a knife in the other as he hunts for the killer was priceless.The motive was clear throughout, but you still had to guess the killer. At least Fenech survived.