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Summary: With a name like Torso, how can you resist?
Review: Anchor Bay is my secret lover. They have managed to put out nearly all the hard-to-find movies I've been searching for in a matter of months. I buy them like groceries. This one, along with Autopsy, was one of the first of these editions to hit my local video stores. It was near my birthday, and I just stared at them lovingly, with my friend looking at me slightly alarmed (we had just come out of American Psycho, something she normally wouldn't watch), as I couldn't decide which one to get, and I asked her advice. After reading them both, she said Torso, and by gosh, she was right on target. This is an awesome giallo that has one of the coolest murder scenes I've ever seen; it takes place in the woods, and the poor girl really gets it good. First, she looks up and sees a figure obscured by the mist, but she's stoned so she kinda just stands there dumbly. Then all of a sudden, he's right in front of her, and let's just say he's not taking an evening stroll. The plot has something to do with a killer who's haunted by some weird childhood memeory involving a doll, and he goes around killing college girls and sawing them into little bits.... Though the film is sometimes dated and sometimes stupid, it is enormously entertaining. There's enough gore to keep everybody interested, and lots of sex and lesbians making out (if you like that sort of thing). I think this is a very capable giallo that should be checked out by eveybody who likes this stuff;you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: EXCELLENT DVD - Euro Trash at it's BEST
Review: Anchor Bay's DVD of TORSO is incredible - the image is crisp, sharp, colorful and there is no artifacting whatsoever. The print is also UNCUT! For years the film was seen in the US only in an edited version with most of the gore and sex cut out. It's great to finally see the entire uncut film with it's original opening and the extra sex and gore bits....I love the head crushing scene (albeit kind of fake) plus there's extra shots of the killer sawing up the bodies into little pieces. What more do you want? There's the cool looking hooded killer plus lots of stylistic giallo touches...this movie is better than ever especially in this impeccable presentation. It's letterboxed and includes the fun US trailer-"Tor---so!" as well as the original euro-trailer. A few shots in the film are in italian with english-subtitles because either the english track was never recorded or it had been lost...but it's not annoying at all and you just can't help loving this disc...especially if you are into euro-sleaze! One of Anchor Bay's best!
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Summary: Euro Sleaze at its Finest!
Review: Anchor Bay's transfer is wonderful and any fan of this film will just wallow in all it's uncut, widescreen glory. Misogynistic, trashy and quite dumb but never dull and director Sergio Martino creates some very tense, suspenseful moments and stylish sequences. Best scene has an injured Suzy Kendall hiding from the killer as he takes a hacksaw to her friends.
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Summary: good pick for dvd
Review: awesome picture quality ,killer sounds, gore is plentiful!
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Summary: Gore? No. Midnight Classic? Yes.
Review: Fans of spaghetti splatterfests beware- this is in no way a gore film. The title "torso" implies dismemberment; it implies bodies being cut apart with chainsaws, it implies axes and hacksaws and parts of the body that make squishy sounds. While there is one scene where there are bodies being dismembered, (off camera), this film does little to teach us about the human anatomy. That being said, this film does deliver in the "it's 2 o' clock in the morning, i can't sleep, let's watch something completely jacked up" aspect. There are many of the fine staples that make a great midnight movie: unintentional humor, long stretches of time with no dialogue, and somewhat eerily confusing plot points which add to your already disoriented mind state. Guzzle some cold medicine, keep yourself awake until 2:00, then pop this into your VCR.
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Summary: Gore? No. Midnight Classic? Yes.
Review: Fans of spaghetti splatterfests beware- this is in no way a gore film. The title "torso" implies dismemberment; it implies bodies being cut apart with chainsaws, it implies axes and hacksaws and parts of the body that make squishy sounds. While there is one scene where there are bodies being dismembered, (off camera), this film does little to teach us about the human anatomy. That being said, this film does deliver in the "it's 2 o' clock in the morning, i can't sleep, let's watch something completely jacked up" aspect. There are many of the fine staples that make a great midnight movie: unintentional humor, long stretches of time with no dialogue, and somewhat eerily confusing plot points which add to your already disoriented mind state. Guzzle some cold medicine, keep yourself awake until 2:00, then pop this into your VCR.
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Summary: Italian slasher-fest!
Review: From the same director who gave us Slave of the Cannibal God comes Torso. Sergio Martino was a prolific Italian writer/director helming over fifty movies in his career, most of them sexy romps or bloody thrillers. The plot here is simple: there's a killer stalking a college in Rome, leaving mutilated bodies of coeds all over the campus. The police are stumped, of course. Fearing for their safety, four girls head off to the hills for a carefree weekend, but they run head-on into the killer, who has followed them, and the grisly murders continue, until... As in Slave of the Cannibal God, this movie drips gore. It's a pretty good entry in the slasher genre. The image quality is fair to good. The only bonus features are two different trailers. But if you like bare babes and blood, you'll like this DVD!
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Summary: Italian slasher-fest!
Review: From the same director who gave us Slave of the Cannibal God comes Torso. Sergio Martino was a prolific Italian writer/director helming over fifty movies in his career, most of them sexy romps or bloody thrillers. The plot here is simple: there's a killer stalking a college in Rome, leaving mutilated bodies of coeds all over the campus. The police are stumped, of course. Fearing for their safety, four girls head off to the hills for a carefree weekend, but they run head-on into the killer, who has followed them, and the grisly murders continue, until... As in Slave of the Cannibal God, this movie drips gore. It's a pretty good entry in the slasher genre. The image quality is fair to good. The only bonus features are two different trailers. But if you like bare babes and blood, you'll like this DVD!
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Summary: Boring waste of time
Review: I didn't like this film very much. It was boring and tedious to sit though. I used the fast-forward on parts of it, it was that bad. I love horror movies but this one was just a big dud in my books. Seems like the director wanted to concentrate more on the nudity and sex than on the actual story or murders. The effects were really bad. After watching Lucio Fulci dvds, this one was a big yawn. The only thing this movie taught me is how the people in Italy ride motorbikes with no helmets and how incredibly loose the women up there are.I felt like i was watching a 70s soft-core porno. The tag line of this movie on the trailer is: "Torso! It saturates the screen with terror!" My version would be, "Torso! It saturates the screen with boredom."
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Summary: boring and not scary at all
Review: I have ordered a bunch of horror movies, and this is the only one I regret. The story is mundane, there's little suspense involved and the murders are so obviously faked it made me laugh. For instance, the killer grabs girls by the throat, and four seconds later they're dead! Also, the models of the victims' bodies or heads used are obviously faked too (I think they were stolen from a wax statue museum!). There are some beautiful women and nudity but nothing to write home about. You want to know what I prefered in the movie? Some exterior scenery and the musical theme, which is very cute! So, borrow that movie if you want but don't buy it.
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