Instead of fighting over newly-gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collects the money) and Rocco (a righteous ex-sheriff who doesn't and shows off even more skill in using his pistol) on their plan...
A film by Mario Colucci, shot in 1972 but never released due to production disagreements involving the performers, Philippe Leroy and Catherine Spaak; it is a "touristic" noir with interesting decadent atmospheres.
The film tells, in a curious narrative structure of flashbacks and hypotheses, the true story of a giallo that took place in Taormina in the mid-1950s, the drowning ...
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they discover what looks like alien creatures in the background.
Umberto Lenzi is undoubtedly the king of Italian crime movies, but unfortunately; Syndicate Sadists is not the best examples of his work in this genre. Lenzi's crime flicks tend to be a cut above the rest because he makes films based on stories with a point, and they don't lack direction; but this film feels a bit too wayward to fully fit with the rest of his stuff. The film ta...