Nieves Navarro is a true queen of giallo, appearing in All the Colors of the Dark, Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, So Sweet, So Dead and Death Walks on High Heels. Here, she makes her second film with her husband, Luciano Ercoli.In this one, she plays a fashion model named Valentina who agrees to help her journalist beau study LSD. But while she's dosed and in the middle of a photo shoot, she watches a man brutally murder a woman with a spiked gauntlet. He thinks she's just hallucinating and publishes her account, but she believes it's real. And when the killer starts stalking her, she really starts to worry.The entire opening of the film is one big acid freakout and everything that follows is the bad trip, the comedown and reality brutally intruding into drugged out bliss. This is a film packed with brutal violence and plenty of gore, but it makes sense. The movie demands it.The end, when everything is wrapped up by the killer (killers?) is pretty great, as the many red herrings are discussed and the entire plot is finally explained to us. If everything before felt like a nightmare, this is bracingly cold water directly to the face.Even better, Navarro portrays a heroine who doesn't faint at the first sign of danger. She deals with the ineffectual police and indifference of her boyfriend with aplomb.And yes - this film is packed with bonkers crazy fashion - a metal/glass silver wig and a strange sculpted wall feature prominently - so if that's why you love giallo, you'll be quite happy here. Me? I loved every minute.

Decent Movie. However, slow and convoluted story brings this down.Good Acting, Cinematography, Lighting/Sets, Editing, Kills, and Music. But the story is so convoluted that it brings the whole movie down. I saw this on youtube, so cost was only time. Best parts were the beginning with the first kill, then a woman was found with a knife in her chest, the fight scene on the roof was good, and the guy falling off the building and then they show him splattered on the ground with brain matter, good stuff. Rating because of this is a C, or 5. If that was missing we are in loser territory with a 4, or 3, and not worth seeing. As is it's worth checking out. Not a great movie, but to check out on youtube it's worth it.As a side note, I would rather see this movie 10 more times than see Dario Argento's Suspiria or Four Flies on Grey Velvet, both garbage movies made by an untalented guy who somehow got into the movie business and somehow got funding, and somehow a cult following. Argento sucks. Crap lighting, crap cinematography, crap music, crap killings, crap story. Go watch Susperia and try to call it good acting, story or cinematography. Crap cartoon lighting. I just watched Four Flies, the story is trash even for giallo standards. The acting should be tested for wood particles. I have similar feeling for Mario Bava. Planet of Vampires is trash all around. It's been a while since watching Blood and Black Lace, but I was not impressed. Here's one more crap movie: Star Wars VII, Force Awakens. This is movie is currently being studied as a social experiment. It represents, to a certain degree, a segment of the population that loves sugar, fat, and lazy culture. Non-thinking. Non-working. Everyone want a quick fix.Death Walks at Midnight Is not a great movie. But it is a decent movie. At least it breaths. And is made by people with talent.

Taking a look on Ebay UK for auctions that were about to end,I was surprised to find an edition of Mondo Macabro's Death Walks At Midnight about to end with no bids.With having been after the Giallo for a good few years,I decided to take a walk at midnight.The plot:Working as a fashion model, Valentina accepts a job to try out a new drug.Meeting the scientist/inventor of the drug,Valentina is surprised by her journalist boyfriend Giò Baldi joining them.Taking the drug,Valentina starts to experience horrifying visions of a women being killed by a stranger with a weird object.As Valentina becomes entranced by the visions,Baldi begins to take pics of her tripping.Telling the scientist and her boyfriend about the visions,Valentina soon discovers that along with secretly taking photos,Baldi alters the images so that Valentina's "visions" can be turned into a story.Getting told by Baldi that her visions are just from tripping,Valentina stars to fear that her subconscious has witnessed a murder.View on the film:Shot in 1972,director Luciano Ercoli & cinematographer Fernando Arribas sway their Giallo back to the 60's,as hyper-active spinning camera moves and dashes of brash reds and yellows swings this gialli to the stylish swinging 60's.Whilst Ercoli and Arribas give the title a light atmosphere,they do give the film some sharp Giallo spikes,as Valentina's deadly dream images wash across the screen in an eye-catching clipped manner,as a spiked gauntlet (!) smashes the yellow gialli pulp open.Following Ercoli's direction,the screenplay by Mahnahén Velasco/Guido Leoni/Ernesto Gastaldi and fellow director Sergio Corbucci soak the Giallo in a peculiar comedic tint,with Vlentina finding a mental hospital with slobbering patients,and a mysterious cackling henchmen following Valentina's every step giving this Gialli a wonderful lightness on its feet.Looking stunning in the rather tight clothing, Nieves Navarro (who was married to Ercoli) gives a terrific performance as Valentina,thanks to Navarro displaying a real joy in diving straight into the strange situations that Valentina gets stuck in,and also cutting Valentina with a strong determination to unravel her "trip",as Valentina discovers that death walks at midnight.

Italian/Spanish co-production dealing with a killing spree with several suspects . It concerns on Valentina (Nieves Navarro and Susan Scott) a gorgeous and spunky fashion model living in Milan . Valentina proofs an experimental hallucinogenic drug and while influenced by the doses , she has a vision of a woman being cruelly killed by an ominous murderous . Valentina finds herself pursued by the same murderer with a spiked glove . It begins with the mysterious death of a woman and continues spirals into the killing . Meanwhile a journalist (Simon Andreu) becomes companion and protector the cover-up who is being continuously stalked .This Giallo contains suspense , thrills, chills , intrigue and plot twists . Luciano Ercoli's great success is compellingly directed with well staged murders plenty of startling visual content , though was submitted to limited censorship in Spain . This is a customary slasher where the intrigue, tension, suspense appear threatening and lurking in every room , corridors and luxurious interior and exterior . The picture packs atmospheric blending of eerie thrills and creepy chills combined with a twisted finale . It displays lots of blood but it seems pretty mild compared to today's gore feasts . It's a solid movie , a thrilling story plenty of suspense and intrigue in which the victims seem to be continuous . The staged killings are the high points of the movie , they deliver the goods plenty of screams, shocks and tension . The intriguing moments are compactly made and fast moving ; as the film itself takes place from various points of sights . It packs tension, shocks , thrills , chills and lots of blood . There're brief moments of gore as the killing with the spiked glove and a number of scenes that are quite thrilling , resulting to be definitely the spotlight of the film the surprising ending situation . Written by the usuals , Ernesto Gastaldi and Sergio Corbucci , a good director of Spaghetti Western . Good ambiance design and acceptable production design by Eduardo De La Torre Fuente. Luciano Ercoli's so-so direction is well crafted, here he's less cynical and more inclined toward violence and lots of killings . It's a co-production Italian-Spanish filmed in Alfonso Balcazar studios (Barcelona)and De Paolis (Rome) , for that reason appears Spanish actors as Nieves Navarro , Simon Andreu and Italian players as Ivano Staccioli, Luciano Rossi and the recently deceased Peter Martellanza or Peter Martell , both of whom ordinary baddies in Spaghetti Western . Colorful cinematography by Fernando Arribas who photographed splendidly city of Milan where is developed the action . However , the photography is washed-out and for that reason is necessary an urgent remastering . Atmospheric and commercial musical score by Gianni Ferrio .The picture is regularly directed by producer/filmmaker Luciano Ercoli. Talented and versatile Ercoli has produced/directed a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, Giallo and Western, in a middling career . He produced a trilogy for Duccio Tessari formed by two Western as ¨A pistol for Ringo¨, ¨The return of Ringo¨ and ¨Kiss, Kiss , Bang , Bang¨ , the latter is set in modern times and deal with a heist . All of them are amusing and entertaining and starred by similar cast as Giuliano Gemma , Fernando Sancho , Lorella De Luca and Nieves Navarro who married the producer Luciano Ercoli . He also produced the Giallo trilogy starred by Simon Andreu and his wife Susan Scott formed by ¨Death walks on high heels¨ , ¨The forbidden photos of a lady above of suspicion¨, and ¨Death walks at midnight¨. Rating: Acceptable and passable , this is one imaginative slasher picture in which the camera stalks in sinister style throughout a story with acceptable visual skills though contains some flaws and gaps . This is a bewildering story , funny in some moment but falls flat and it will appeal to hardcore Gialli fans