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Psychopathia
Sexualis in Italian Sinema
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS IN ITALIAN SINEMA
Incredibly strange movie fantasies from “cineromanzi”
1968-1972
Edited and text by Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi
Softcover edition
Size 24x31 cm. — 104 pg. b&w
Italian Text / English text
Franco the libertine, Ella the nymphomaniac, Gilberto the mad
sadist, Sayer the aesthete sadist, Mary the homicidal mantis,
Ahmed the debauched, X. the vicious politician, X. the fanatic
and moralist judge, Kay the sexually dissatisfied, the mysterious
Greta, Diana the arrogant mistress and her black servant Janita,
Santino the foot fetichist, the psychopatic Dr. Lyutak, the
submissive Marcia, the refined Lesbians Paula and Mudy, Silvia
the happy masochist... These are the eccentric characters enliving
the incredible stories of this anthology of Italian movies from
the so-called Sexual Revolution, featured in the form of “cineromanzo”.
Krafft-Ebing’s theories, Sade’s fantasies, Freud’s
analyses in a bizarre and entertaining cocktail of “hot”
sequences chosen from rare Italian magazines of the ‘70s
featuring such film as:
La matriarca / The Libertine (Pasquale Festa Campanile), L’assoluto
naturale (Mauro Bolognini), Eros e Thanatos (Jean Bastide aka
Marino Girolami), Femina ridens / The Laughing Woman (Piero
Schivazappa), Venus in Furs / Paroxismus (Jess Franco), Bella
di giorno, moglie di notte / Wife by Night (Nello Rossati),
The Lickerish Quartet / Esotika erotika psicotika (Radley Metzger),
La verità secondo Satana (Ralph Brown aka Renato Polselli),
A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (Demofilo Fidani),
Delirio caldo / Delirium (Ralph Brown), La donna invisibile
/ The Fantasies of a Sensuous Woman (Paolo Spinola), Top sensation
/ Seducers (Ottavio Alessi), Scacco alla regina (Pasquale Festa
Campanile), Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh / Blade of the
Ripper (Sergio Martino)... |
