A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)

Original title

Una lucertola con la pelle di donna

Directed by

Lucio Fulci

Genre

thriller film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 182 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A respected politician's daughter has vivid nightmares about sex orgies and murder. She wakes up to find her neighbor dead, and the police suspect her of the real crime.

psychedelicnightmarishsuspensefulmoodyconfusingtensevisually strange

What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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