Torso (Blu-ray)

A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpions Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) has lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but it is undoubtedly his giallo thrillers from the early 70s for which he is best known. Among the most highly acclaimed of these, 1973s Torso revels in the genres time-honored traditions while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the modern slasher movie.A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university towns female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, theyve brought it with them!Also known as Carnal Violence, Torso was released in Italy towards the end of the giallo boom before enjoying a second life on the American grindhouse