Films like Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme giallo / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) poster
1. The Red Queen Kills Seven Times1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Fifth Cord (1971) poster
2. The Fifth Cord1971

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The House That Screamed (1969) poster
3. The House That Screamed1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Crimes of the Black Cat (1972) poster
4. The Crimes of the Black Cat1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Autopsy (1975) poster
5. Autopsy1975

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) poster
6. Alice, Sweet Alice1976

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) poster
7. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte1964

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Child's Play (1972) poster
8. Child's Play1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Bell from Hell (1973) poster
9. A Bell from Hell1973

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The French Sex Murders (1972) poster
10. The French Sex Murders1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) poster
11. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave1971

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Watch Me When I Kill (1977) poster
12. Watch Me When I Kill1977

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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