RyothChatty ridiculous rating

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Michael_Elliott Delirium (1987) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Gloria (Serena Grandi) is a former model who struck gold making a magazine called Pussycat but it seems a secret admirer is about to cross the line. Pretty soon obnoxious phone calls are turning into someone murdering off the models that are working for Gloria.Lamberto Bava was trying to not only make a film that looked and seemed like the work of his father but there's no question that there's a touch of Dario Argento as well. DELIRIUM isn't a completely successful movie but at the same time there are enough interesting and bloody murders mixed in with the sexploitation feel to where fans of the genre will find it to be worth a watch.The film seems to not know if it wanted to be a naughty nude film or a giallo so we basically just get the best of both worlds. The film's plot certainly isn't the greatest or the most original but it's basically just here to show beautiful women being murdered and of course getting naked before hand. As a giallo it works to a point as the violence is certainly there as well as the actors and actresses ability to spit out blood as they are being wounded.The film offers up a lot of nudity from the various women and that includes the lead Grandi. She's actually pretty good in the film has she's constantly showing off her body and in a rather hilarious way she does so at the end with the killer's request. You've also got George Eastman and Daria Nicolodi appearing in brief bits. Bava's direction is fine for this type of picture and he offers up some nice cinemaotgprahy and lighting.DELIRIUM certainly isn't a masterpiece or even a good film but it's sleazy enough to where fans of the genre should enjoy it.

ferbs54 Lamberto Bava followed up his nonsensical splatterfests "Demons" and "Demons 2" with the far less sanguine but infinitely more coherent giallo thriller "Delirium" (1987), aka "Photos of Gioia." In this one, voluMptuous Serena Grandi plays Gloria, publisher of a men's nudie mag called "Pussycat" (a character possibly based on Christie Hefner, who had assumed the helm at "Playboy" five years earlier), whose models have lately started to be gruesomely done away with by a serial killer. Many suspects abound, including Gloria's personal assistant (played by giallo vet Daria Nicolodi), her gay photographer, the wheelchair-bound Peeping Tom across the way, her duplicitous ex-lover (George Eastman), and a lesbian publishing rival (portrayed by Capucine, in one of her last roles). As far as those murders go, they are a fairly tame lot (for the viewer, that is!), employing a pitchfork, bumblebees (the bee attacks in the 1967 British film "The Deadly Bees" were much more hideous) and the usual slashings. We get to see some very interesting POV shots through the killer's eyes, and regard the victims as having eyeball and bee heads! Yes, this killer is one sick puppy, and his/her motivations, when ultimately revealed, are pretty friggin' twisted. Don't even try to guess, is my advice; just sit back and enjoy Serena's toothsome presence (the gal looks great in a soaking-wet negligee!), several genuinely suspenseful sequences (the one with the killer stalking Gloria through a department store is particularly good), the sumptuous sets, and Bava's often-flashy directorial touches. "Delirium" is not a top-drawer giallo, but it is well put together (like its star!), entertaining and often gripping. Nice work, Lamberto; papa Mario would have been proud!

Scarecrow-88 Models who work on the nude shoots of the adult magazine "Pussycat" are being murdered by a deranged psychotic who sees various colors before confronting them. Two of the first female victims, appear to the killer with grotesque faces commenting to us that he's quite mad(one model has the face of an eye with veins bulging;another victim has the face of an insect). After they are murdered, the psycho sits them on a sofa in front of the massive blown-up photos of Gioia(Serena Grandi, one hot mama with curves..think Anna Nicole Smith, except much prettier)a former model who is now in charge of her late husband's company of the Pussycat mag. Meanwhile, Gioia receives naughty phone calls from a wheel-chair bound cripple, Mark(Karl Zinny)who lost his girlfriend in an unfortunate car crash that has left him embittered and angry. Who could be the one threatening Gioia? And, what is the killer's motive for sending photos of dead victims in front of her old photos? This late 80's giallo is long on style and nudity(LOTS of flesh is shown and the camera glides so lustfully down Grandi's naked flesh..Grandi's naked body is shot by Lamberto Bava's camera in every lascivious way possible), but short on nasty violence. Much of the violence is non-gory(even the first victim's death by being stabbed through with a pitchfork isn't all that gruesome)and this particular giallo seems to concentrate on the story/mystery elements. The camera-work in this film is exceptional. The cast has Dario Argento vet Daria Nicolodi as Gioia's assistant Evelyn and Capucine has a small role as Gioia's rival Flora who wishes to buy the magazine from her. Most of the supporting roles are minor diversions such as George Eastman as hulky actor Alex who is offered as a promising love-interest to Gioia, but he stays away on shoots for most of the film's duration and David Brandon as Gioia's photographer Roberto. The only other real meaty part goes to Vanni Corbellini as Tony, Gioia's brother and the one responsible for getting the most out of the models who work on the mag's nude shoots.My favorite sequence is in the massive multi-floored clothing store where Gioia runs for her life as the female cackles of the psycho echo throughout. The identity of the killer is quite an interesting little twist, if a tad bit far-fetched.

gridoon Sort of an "Eyes of Laura Mars" wannabe, this Italian import has a murky, gloomy visual style, a derivative slasher-movie plot and an exploitative approach (with lots of nudity and some graphic, though unoriginal, murders). Overall, a mediocre thriller, but at least director Lamberto Bava has some bizarre ideas that may not add up to much, but do manage to grab our attention (SPOILER:before two of the murders, the victims-to-be turn into appallingly ugly half-human monsters, at least from the killer's point-of-view). (**)