LIBIDO
As a young child Christian suffered a traumatic experience that has scared his psyche forever. His father, a sexual deviant, set up his bedroom with mirrors on the walls and chains on the bed. One evening things get out of control as Christian sees his father murder his mistress while she is chained to the bed. Soon after his father is believed to have thrown himself from a cliff. Twenty years have gone by. Christian and his wife return to the villa along with his attorney Paul, and his sexy wife Brigitte. Soon Christian begins to feel there is someone else in the villa. Someone who he begins to believe is his father. Torn between terror and the suspicion that someone is trying to trick him for his large inheritance Paul’s grip on reality is fading. Soon Paul’s wife is found dead and Paul becomes totally insane. 

One of the most famous of the early Italian thrillers or giallo films and the first film directed by one of Italy’s premier writers of the giallo Ernesto Gastaldi. Gastaldi, best know for penning such classics as THE HORRIBLE DR. HITCHCOCK, THE WHIP AND THE BODY and TORSO took on the directors chores as result of a bet proving that a well written story is more important then technical ability. Among the cast is famed Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini in his first film, Luciano Pigozzi, who under the pseudonym Alan Colins is very familiar to fans of Euro cinema, and Mara Maryl, the real wife of Gastaldi, plays the sexy Brigitte. 
(1966-Italy) Black & white, full screen. In Italian with English subtitles