Death Walks at Midnight 1972 123movies

Watch: La morte accarezza a mezzanotte 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer….
Plot: Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
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Another Giallo that rocks!
This rare Giallo was Luciano Ercoli’s follow-up to the rather tame but nonetheless enjoyable “Le Foto Proibite di una Signora Perbene” (Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion in English; Frauen bis zum Wahnsinn gequält in German, which means “Women tortured to insanity”!!!).

There are some similarities in the storyline, but overall, “La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte” is obviously superior. After a powerful start, when Susan Scott as Valentina has a murder vision during a drug trip she suffers for her journalist colleague (who makes a photo session out of the “experiment” to publish it in the junk paper he’s working for – that she initially does NOT know!), the film becomes a little bit slow moving as Valentina is suddenly stalked by numerous strange persons. But the second half of the film delivers more than many other thrillers together – suddenly, the bodies are piling up and there’s also enough time for action and fist fights that could easily find place in Your average police drama of its decade.

The uncovering of the fiend is really surprising, more so if one considers that one thinks to know the face of the real killer after seeing the above mentioned drug trip sequence (to make things more clear here would give away too much).

Last but not least, there is also an exceptional musical score by Gianni Ferrio, a typical yet unique Giallo score including, of course, a lush main theme song.

To wrap it all up: This film is one of the many fine Italian thrillers of the 1970s that deserve to be rediscovered by an interested audience.

Death Walks at Midnight
On the surface, director Luciano Ercoli’s Death Walks at Midnight appears to be a rather straight-forward Giallo. You get to see the killer’s face right at the beginning, his brutal murder of a woman named Dolores visually captured within the drugged out vision of fashion model Valentina(..luscious red-head, Nieves Navarro, her fiery personality a major attraction to this here Giallo fan)who agreed to have an experimental hallucinogen called HDS injected into her bloodstream(..I’m guessing it was essentially a drug like LSD). The one responsible for talking her into taking HDS was journalist for a rag mag Novello 2000, Gia, Valentina’s on-again / off-again lover. Gia got a great article out of her revelations regarding the sickening violent attack of a maniac, with big black shades and an overcoat, burying his iron glove with spikes into the skull of a brunette. Gia reckons she read about, sometime ago, a similar murder of a stripper named Hélène, and is pulling his chain about actually seeing the act take place in vivid detail as it was being carried out(..although, his suggestion that she possibly saw it happen, “self-censored” the act in her sub-conscious, with the drug re-awakening the memory, is probably a more accurate assessment). When the killer discovers her article in the magazine, Valentina’s life is in danger, but the plot doesn’t stop here..it’s far more complex and stretches it’s tentacles beyond what she could possibly have imagined.

You get everything a Giallo fan is accustomed to here and then some. The fashions, the exotic Milan setting, luxurious apartments, restaurants and clubs, a positively gorgeous lead actress, insanely convoluted plot with a plethora of characters coming out of the woodwork, a really nasty murder weapon which does some serious damage to a victim’s face, a series of questionable suspects and colorful villains(..including a drug-dealing psycho who giggles), well orchestrated finale where Gia comes to Valentina’s rescue, engaging in fisticuffs on top of an apartment complex with those planning to set her up in a murder / suicide scenario, with some fabulous set-pieces including methods of how Ercoli captures facial reflections and action up close and personal as bodies(..and blood as the iron glove “stabs the screen”) fly toward the screen when characters are fighting. The twist is a good one.

The plot really places poor Valentina in a difficult predicament for everyone doubts her as she tries her best to get the truth across to Inspector Serino(Carlo Gentili;who believes she’s staging a publicity stunt with Gia), sculptor boyfriend Stefano(Pietro Martellanza;who always dismisses her rantings as a whole bunch of hullabaloo), and Gia(Simón Andreu;who believes she’s seeking revenge against him for the HDS incident, and for restitution). After the article is published, Valentina is inadvertently involved with a mysterious woman named Verushka(Claudie Lange;whose sister was Hélène), Verushka’s odd asylum doctor husband, Otto(Ivano Staccioli;whose role in the grand scheme of things is of consequence), Pepito(Fabrizio Moresco;a pale skinned weirdo with a red scarf, often confronting Valentino about their lives being in grave danger), and two drug dealers who are tied to a secret mastermind whose operating within Milan. Henri Velaq(Claudio Pellegrini), the infamous killer of the film, is only a piece in a larger puzzle regarding rival drug dealing groups. The empty apartment across from Valentina’s pad where Delores was brutally slain is of great importance to the overall story and figures highly into how Valentina become(..and remains)involved in the story.

Navarro proves to be quite a find for me as I make my way through the Giallo genre, her elegance and beauty certainly enchanting, as is her strength and tenacity when confronting those that question her validity regarding what she knows(..as Velaq stalks her, no one will take her seriously when she informs them of his actions, not to mention the other people who start entering the picture).

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director Luciano Ercoli
Writer Sergio Corbucci, Ernesto Gastaldi, Mahnahén Velasco
Actors Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Peter Martell
Country Italy, Spain
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Techniscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm