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February 24, 1981
- Murder Obsession was submitted to Italian film censors on October 15, 1980 and was passed on October 31 but was only released in Italy on February 24, 1981. Italian film historian Roberto Curti described it as having "mediocre business" which Boetani blamed on the distributor, who did not pay back the expected sum which lead to the production losing over 50 percent of the production costs.
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Murder Obsession was submitted to Italian film censors on October 15, 1980 and was passed on October 31 but was only released in Italy on February 24, 1981.
By 1981, the giallo cycle in Italian cinema was firmly on the decline. Fueled by the success of Halloween and Friday the 13th , filmmakers around the world began to pivot toward the slasher formula for their films.
- (1.2K)
- Riccardo Freda
Nov 3, 2014 · A bunch of victims-to-be stay at an isolated location and start getting killed off one by one. Hmm, not so daunting. Is it the crazy film star with a history of homicide, or is something even more sinister and twisted going on?
Jan 4, 2024 · By 1981, the giallo cycle in Italian cinema was firmly on the decline. Fueled by the success of Halloween and Friday the 13th , filmmakers around the world began to pivot toward the slasher formula for their films.
Murder Obsession is an odd confection of a movie. It includes various famous Italian exploitation favourites (John Richardson, Laura Gemser, etc.) in a tale of a young actor's return to his family mansion to film location shots and inflict his movie friends upon his ever-so-slightly bonkers mother.
- (14)
- English, Italian
- Import, PAL
- 93 minutes
Dec 13, 2023 · Various other VHS editions of varying lengths made the rounds as well including a UK version entitled The Wailing, while the initial English export version was entitled Murder Obsession (a translation of the Italian title, Follia omicida). The uncut version appeared in Italy from Raro Video in a better but still mediocre non-anamorphic transfer ...
May 5, 2012 · Tweet. Raro Video USA's latest Blu-ray offering is another short window DVD upgrade, this time for Ricardo Freda's Murder Obsession, which was just released on home video in December. Murder...
