As Italian gialli go this is certainly not great, but it is a fairly entertaining movie. It takes place on a movie set where a prima donna actress is murdered. Soon after two other female witnesses are also bumped off. But the plot frankly is pretty stupid and barely makes any sense. This works best as a satire of the Italian movie industry of the era. You have the tyrannical, pretentious director, the disgruntled screenwriter, the bickering and/or nymphomaniacal actresses. In one of the funniest scenes an actress has a star fit about having to perform nude in a scene in the movie-with-in-the-movie where she is a burned at the stake. But, in an ironic in-joke,she gives this entire monologue about exploitation and sexism in the Italian film industry completely naked, and then stalks off to her trailer in the same manner (where she, naturally, meets the killer).There are also a couple of memorable scenes including a costume party/final scene near the end where everyone in the cast and crew dresses up like the characters in "Diabolik" (despite the warning from the police that this will--obviously-- make things very easy for the killer who is still at large).
The co-writer/co-director Robert Mauri earlier directed the horror classic "Slaughter of the Vampires" and later did the trashy "Porno Killers". This is an appropriate transition piece between the two. The only recognizable actress here is Annabella Incotrerra, who was a supporting actress in a number of better-known gialli ("Black Belly of the Tarantula", "Case of the Bloody Irises", "Crimes of the Black Cat"). She's top-billed, but like all the other actress is pretty much just piece of freely displayed tail (but she's certainly the most memorable one, dressing up like a harem girl and doing a sexy dance at a party and then taking a long, gratuitous, and ultimately fatal, shower).
This is a giallo-by-the-numbers really with all the usual ingredients (except that the violence is kept almost entirely offscreen). Still I found it pretty entertaining overall.
