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A strange, super low budget oddity filmed in bare offices and open fields. A doctor claims to have discovered a chemical cocktail that will keep a corpse functioning and endeavours to achieve his ultimate goal: procreation between two reanimated corpses. Meanwhile the police and an ex colleague of the doctor try to unravel a string of murders and disappearances, including the doctors corpse from the mortuary when he dies of a heart attack at the end of the second act.

Odd, titillation is shoehorned in to keep the rather slow opening half interesting and then, in the final act, the ideas and twists come thick and fast until the fantastic (if slightly predictable) twist.

Certainly worth tracking down as a curio but best watched with company as you'll want someone to talk to, even if it's just to ask "what !".

A series of murders are happening - it's a giallo, so go figure, right? - but in each case, there is decomposed flesh under the victims. There's also a genius named Professor Helmut (Gordon Mitchell!) who is doing brain transplants from human to baboon and he thinks that could be the secret to cheating death.

That's why this movie is really known as The Skin Under the Claws, but it's more romantic comedy with a giallo just begging to break though. Helmut dies early on and his organs disappear and the cops think the killer is a walking corpse, so there's at least some horror in this one, but it takes forever to get there, what with Dr. Silivia and Dr. Gianni going to dinner, out sightseeing and anything and everything but solving the crimes that we came here for.

Alessandro Santini only directed three other movies - Beyond the Frontiers of Hate, Una Forca per 3 Vigliacchi (A Gallow for 3 Cowards) and Questa Libertà di Avere... le Ali Bagnate (The Freedom of Having...Wet Wings). He's not shy with the nudity or the blood. And at least the ending is somewhat original and unexpected. Otherwise, as they say, for giallo lovers only.