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A.A.A Massuesse, Good Looking, Offers Her Services (1972)

And we're back to post Bird With A Crystal Plummage stalk and slash antics. This one featuring a lot of nudity and a little bit of razor violence.
A young lady leaves the family home to move into a share apartment and pay her own way through handsomely paid prostitution. The only problem to this excellent lifestyle is that her clients keep getting murdered the night after she sees them.
That's not a bad setup for a giallo. Basically what I'm looking for in the genre. The execution is a bit odd though. Forty minutes in I actually googled the title to make sure I was watching a giallo as it felt more like one of those USA 50s films about good girls gone bad. No sooner had I started typing in the ridiculous title though than the standard black trenchcoated, wide brimmed hat, rubber glove wearing, razor wielding psychopath turned up.
Thank christ for that too because at that point the film was feeling tonally off and was trying my patience. The second half is better than the first half but it still has a strange vibe. Theres all sorts of disparate musical genres on the soundtrack that don't feel like they belong at all. Sometimes feels like a comedy, sometimes like a sleazy sex film, sometimes like a Runaway Daughter movie.
The "mystery" of who who the killer is so obvious you should see it coming a mile off. Feels like an oddly moralistic capper to what was a fairly sleazy piece of entertainment.
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