Libido

1965 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 736 736

pre-code trauma sigmund freud inheritance rocking chair freud

Director

Vittorio Salerno Photo
Vittorio Salerno

Top cast

Luciano Pigozzi Photo
Luciano Pigozzi as Paul
Giancarlo Giannini Photo
Giancarlo Giannini as Christian
Dominique Boschero Photo
Dominique Boschero as Helene
Mara Marilli Photo
Mara Marilli as Brigitte
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822.66 MB
1200*720
Italian 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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1.49 GB
1800*1080
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Red-Barracuda 6 / 10

Minimalistic but enjoyable enough early giallo

Four people arrive at a seaside mansion, which is the ancestral home of one of the party - a young man who witnessed his father murdering a woman there when he was a child. Various antagonisms exist between the characters and to make matters worse, there is a hefty inheritance at stake - isn't there always?! And will history repeat itself in the form of murder?!! Do you know what, it might just...This very early giallo owes more to the likes of the French classic Les Diaboliques and Hammer psychological thrillers such as Taste of Fear, than it does Mario Bava's early giallo proto-types, The Girl Who Knew Too Much or Blood and Black Lace. To this end, it doesn't have a maniac on the loose scenario and instead focuses on a small cast, where the central character is so emotionally vulnerable that we are not sure if they are being driven mad or insane to begin with. It's a fairly basic and minimalistic movie in a lot of ways but it does have some visual black and white elegance and nice touches such as the mirrored room. The small cast isn't bad either with future Hannibal and Bond actor Giancarlo Giannini suitably intense as the psychologically damaged son, giallo regular Dominique Boschero a welcome presence once more as his wife, character actor of dozens of side roles Luciano Pigozzi is successfully shifty once again as the lawyer and Mara Maryl (who came up with the idea for the film!) romps about in bikinis as the resident fox. But what may define Libido most of all in giallo terms, is that the most prominent screenwriter of the genre, Ernesto Gastaldi, was given a rare opportunity to direct here. He doesn't do a bad job and the film, while a bit unexciting for the most part, does have a fairly diverting final third where events do ramp up a bit. Its no classic but it's a nice example of a very early Italian thriller.
Reviewed by AvionPrince16 7 / 10

Libido of Money or sex ?

Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 5 / 10

Gastaldi!

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