1970 · giallo · surreal · psychotronic
In the Folds of the Flesh
Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli1h 32m1970
Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
Our read: In the Folds of the Flesh (1970) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal giallo · surreal · psychotronic entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured giallo / surreal, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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