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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Ryko Distribution
EAN: 0827058104296
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Blue Underground
Manufacturer: Blue Underground
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Blue Underground
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 60098
Studio: Blue Underground
Theatrical Release Date: 1977-06
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Product Description:
Presented Uncut For The First Time Ever In AmericaWhen the city of Rome is rocked by a wave of violent suicides a young forensic pathologist (Mimsy Farmer of FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET) wracked by hallucinations of the living dead and a priest (Barry Primus of NEW YORK NEW YORK) running from his dark past begin an investigation. Together they uncover a deadly secret and a chilling slab of unspeakable horror.Directed by Armando Crispino (THE DEAD ARE ALIVE) and featuring a sinister score by Ennio Morricone (THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) this Euro Horror classic was cut by over 15 minutes upon its 1975 American release. Now AUTOPSY has been restored from original negative materials and presented uncut and uncensored.Extras:International THE VICTIM TrailerU.S. Theatrical TrailerFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 827058104296 Manufacturer No: 1042
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Chilly blond Mimsy Farmer is an Italian medical student who has disturbing visions of the waking dead during a rash of grotesque suicides. She works in a morgue where every living man in her orbit hits on her and one coworker even tries to rape her ('You can't blame a guy for trying. Nothing turns on a man more than an icy woman,' comforts an oh-so understanding boyfriend). Barry Primus is an angry priest with a dark past and anger-management issues (he screams, 'I've killed many others and I'll kill you too,' while beating a man's skull into the pavement). The apparent cause of the suicide hit parade is extreme sunspot activity (each death is punctuated with fiery images of solar flares), but when victims close to Farmer start dropping from high-rise windows, the picture twists into a murder mystery with a gallery of sleazy and shady suspects. Director Armando Crispino fills in the edges with unending images of death, shocking violence, and gratuitous nudity, creating an intermittently stylish but often bluntly exploitative horror mystery. Shorn of 15 minutes when it debuted in American theaters in the mid-1970s, the sex and violence has been completely restored for video. One short scene is in Italian with English subtitles, due to missing soundtrack materials, while the rest is dubbed in English. Ennio Morricone provides a suitably strange mix of atonal stings and lovely melodies. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating: - When in Rome, Stay Out Of The Sun
It's a hot summer in Rome. Sun spots and solar eruptions are causing people to commit suicide, attempt rape, and have strange hallucinations. In Armando Crispino's bizarre giallo, "Autopsy," a serial killer is murdering associates and making their deaths appear to be suicide. Remember, the best place to hide a tree is in the forest. Agatha Christie taught us this in "The ABC Murders" when the killer makes one murder look like part of the random slayings of a deranged serial killer.
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Rating: - Beware of Sun Spots
Blue Underground continue their excellent restoration and re-issue of important Italian giallo films with Armando Crispino's 1975 effort "Autopsy" - just one of the six titles the film goes under. UK and US audiences may know it better as "The Magician" and "The Victim" respectively. By 1975 the formula of the giallo was cast pretty much in granite, and already signs of self-reference and parody were creeping into this most peculiar Italian filone. But Crispino instead opts for an elliptical temporal ... Read More
Rating:  - Drab
Autopsy is an ugly and unpleasant giallo from 1975 that I really didn't enjoy. Starring Mimsy Farmer, it tells the story of a spate of deaths that appear to be suicides but may actually be murders. Farmer plays Simona, a pathologist who has a very troubled personal life, as well as suffering from hallucinations at work, where she occasionally has visions of the corpses waking up! And that's just one confusing strand of a plot which is really hard to follow and much of it is unclear. Endless shots of sun ... Read More
Rating:  - This movie *does* need an AUTOPSY
This has got to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I was expecting a scarey well written horror movie..wrong...What you get is a dimwit main character (Mimsy Farmer) who isn't even attractive and we're subjected to her nudity in some scenes in the film. It has a stupid plot (Ok she's seeing dead people come to life) The film has many chances to capture the audience but fails miserably. The sets [stink], the acting is bogus ..even the set locations are mundane
Stay away *don*t view this autopsy. ... Read More
Rating: - AUTOPSY WITH A BLUNT SCALPEL
this so-so "giallo" was directed by ARMANDO CRISPINO, not Josè Marìa Forquè. Set during a sizzling Roman summer, "Autopsy" opens with a grim montage sequence depicting various people committing suicide/homicide. Straight after this we are plunged into a startling episode at the central morgue: as overwrought heroine Mimsy Farmer looks round, grotesquely leering corpses seem to come to life and get up from the slabs. Powerful stuff, but unfortunately the rest of the movie doesn't come up with anything to top ... Read More
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