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Death Walks at Midnight Movie Review

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Actors: Susan Scott, Simon Andreu, Pietro Martellanza, Claudie Lange, Carlo Gentili
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Death Walks at Midnight
DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT (La Morte accarezza a mezzanotte) was directed by the Italian director Luciano Ercoli in 1972.

Valentina is a model who agrees to experiment a new synthetic drug invented by a local doctor about whom the people journalist Gio Baldi wants to write an article. During the experimentation, Valentina sees the murder of a young woman by a killer with an iron glove. Once Baldi's article is released, Valentina is hunted by the man she saw in her hallucinations. She goes straight to inspector Seripa who doesn't believe her. Moreover, neither Baldi neither Valentina's ex-boy-friend Stefano seem to take her seriously. Now, Verushka Wuttenberg, the sister of a woman who was stabbed by the killer some years before, takes an interest in Valentina and drives her to the mental institution the killer is supposed to be locked in.

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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Crime story: - hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is... - known killer

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
Hair color? - blonde
Hair style - long, straight (woman)
Body type - average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality - Italian
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average build (man)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - Italian

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - killer
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Italy
City? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 4-8
Kind of violence: - knives
Unusual forms of death - dropped from large heights
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - English
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Jazz/r&b
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