1971 · giallo · thriller · murder
A Quiet Place to Kill
Directed by Umberto Lenzi1h 34m1971
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
Our read: A Quiet Place to Kill (1971) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded giallo · thriller · murder entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured giallo / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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