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Actors: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini, Giampiero Albertini
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Case of the Bloody Iris |
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THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS, also known as EROTIC BLUE or WHAT ARE THOSE STRANGE DROPS OF BLOOD ON JENNIFER'S BODY ? is a movie directed by Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carnimeo) in 1971.
In Italy, Edwige Fenech and her friend move into an apartment that was inhabited by a night performer who was murdered. Inspector Enci can not prevent other murders from happening in the building while several people are suspects.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Case of the Bloody Iris |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Murders of set profession?
- artists
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- orgies
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- boiling
- drowned
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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