A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
An erotic nightmare that keeps you on the edge of an abyss of terror!
Fans of Duke of Burgundy and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, take note: you will really, really like this movie. One of the Euro-trashiest mindfucks ever.
The daughter of a respected politician (Florinda Bolkan) experiences haunting, hallucinogenic couture visions in which everyone is erotic and murder happens. There’s a plot lurking beneath the surface -- but one watches Lizard for its roasting, left-field psychedelia that explodes from the screen in a flash flood.
“Thematically the closest Fulci got to his peer Argento. Colorful and wild, with orgies, LSD freakouts and painting-by-knife-throwing. The visuals are Fulci's most impressive.” -- Dana Reinoos, Screen Slate
ABOUT JANUARY GIALLO:
"Every January, we like to pour ourselves a glass of J&B whiskey, sharpen our straight razor and slip on those black gloves to celebrate our favorite horror sub-genre, the Giallo. For those of you who don’t know, a Giallo is Italy’s answer to murder mysteries and thrillers that was kicked off by Mario Bava with The Girl Who Knew Too Much (aka Evil Eye) in the early sixties. While filmmakers like Umberto Lenzi made some excellent Giallos in the late sixties/early seventies such as Orgasmo and Knife of Ice, the sub-genre became popularized by Dario Argento with The Girl with Crystal Plumage . Throughout the seventies, Argento along with Sergio Martino, Lucio Fulci, Luciano Ercoli, Aldo Lado and many more made several visually stunning and viscerally violent cinematic excursions. The word Gialllo means ‘yellow’ in Italian, which was the color of the pulp and crime books that some Giallo took inspiration from. Although stylistically, the Giallo shares DNA with the German Krimi Films, the sub-genre took some wild turns mingling with occult, Gothic horror, Poliziotteschi, and psychedelia elements that created many unique variations." - Cinematic Void
