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| Italian | Una lucertola con la pelle di donna |
| Directed by | Lucio Fulci |
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| Produced by | Edmondo Amati |
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| Cinematography | Luigi Kuveiller |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) is a 1971 giallo film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci and produced by Edmondo Amati and Robert Dorfmann. It stars Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Monti, Anita Strindberg, Mike Kennedy, George Rigaud and Leo Genn. The film is an Italian-Spanish-French co-production.
Set in London, the film follows Carol Hammond (Bolkan), the daughter of a respected politician, who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares consisting of debauched sex orgies and LSD use. In the dream, she commits a graphic murder of a neighbour whose life she is envious of (Strindberg) and awakes to a real-life criminal investigation into the murder of her neighbour.
The film was released in France as Carole, and was later re-released in the United States as Schizoid.[1] The French release print is the longest at 101 minutes.[2]
- ^ Cavinato, Grégory (21 April 2016). "Les Films Cultes... Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Le Venin de la Peur) (1971)". Action-Cut (in French). Archived from the original on 18 November 2019.
- ^ Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. p. 276.