'The Case Of The Bloody Iris' is a totally delirious, super sexy and demented Italian Giallo flick that came out during the height of the genre's game and featuring the ruling queen of the genre Edwige Fenech. Indulging in its sleazy style the movie introduces us into a world of paranoia, vibrant fashions and death.From scrupulous characters to tense atmospheres 'The Case Of The Bloody Iris' is a well and truly turbulent ride that keeps you hooked all the way through. The story follows Jennifer (Edwige Fenech) who moves into a high scale apartment building where previously two women were brutally murdered, stalked by her obsessive and dangerous ex-husband and surrounded by a group of colourful and suspicious strangers will she make it out alive or fall prey to the killer as the body count begins to rise.The movie throws you through a continuous loop with its many red herrings and maddening lunacy and of course that's the main attraction of these Giallo films and giving us hints and clues throughout, then pulling the rug out from under your feet with a nail biting climax that leaves you gasping for breath throughout. The production throughout jammed pack with all the usual tropes such as sultry moments, nudity and extreme violence and with every one of these aspects, the movie shines, the death scenes are quite brutal and executed very well, all the while still being artistically impressive and the Director captures all these moments with such flair and an impressive eye and mixes in an impressive cast of characters that makes everything work to its charm.Edwige Fenech again never fails to disappoint and can see why she's the queen of this genre as she well and truly shines in this role in a mostly panic stricken stupor, she gives a sympathetic performance that forces you to feel for her character, extremely alluring and outstandingly mesmerising, she just takes this film by storm and projects that damsel in distress quality beautifully. Contrasting against Edwige's honest and admiral quality are the 2 male leads who shakes things up during the narrative and keeps you second guessing throughout, Ben Carra takes on the dubious role of Jennifer's ex-husband Adam a tremendous cult leader who will stop at nothing to get Jennifer back, he is straight up despicable and abusive and his inclusion in the role is one that injects a fresh sense of paranoia and a well and truly threatening presence and adding to that uneasy tone is George Hilton who takes on the role as the handsome and suave architect Andrea Barto who has an intense fear of blood and what's so interesting about his character is that there's so many clues that lead him to being a possible killer, almost so that it seems way too obvious, he's so charismatic as well as having a screw loose that adds many layers to his performance.So in all 'The Case Of The Bloody Iris' is a satisfying viewing experience with all the right ingredients with an interesting cast of colourful characters and an intriguing mystery, this is definite essential viewing for any fans of Giallo movies.

Moving into a new apartment building, a pair of models find themselves becoming the object of a strange killer searching the tenants of the building and as the rampage continues they find themselves at the center of the killers' target and must try to stop him before they kill again.This was quite an intriguing and enjoyable enough Giallo. Like the majority of the films in the genre, this one really gets quite a lot to like here from the opening half which definitely starts off with the typical introduction of the suspects for the case. As much of the opening act is concerned with the strained relationship with the ex-husband detailing flashbacks to their kinky sex-life with orgies and free-love galore modeled around the few select stalking scenes within the apartment and the concurrent investigation that brings the girls into the building makes for a great set-up in this particular genre. Due to the different photography sessions and the murders usually conducted in the bathrooms the nudity present as well certainly helps move this one along rather nicely with these more traditional elements introduced in the police officer investigating the crimes on the outskirts of their lives. Those are just as much fun with the different strikes coming off incredibly well, with the opening murder in the elevator being effective and startling at the beginning of the film, an attack in a victim's darkened apartment knowing there's somebody in there with them is quite effective while the stand-out sequence of an attack in the middle of a crowded shopping center while passersby are so wrapped up in their own lives they fail to notice the death in the first place is a real show-stopper. Later scenes of the stalking in the cars' junkyard which turns into the big battle in the abandoned factory that's really enjoyable, while the main confrontation at the end which uses the twist-ending and brawl with the killer that's rather nice and enjoyable, ending this one a fine note. While these make for a nice enough Giallo, it does have a few flaws to it. The main issue is the fact that the film decides to pile on a series of red-herrings into the plot that it really doesn't make much sense at all. Simply trying to get as many plot-points as this one maneuvers through into action manages to downplay the action into a crawl for a long stretch of time trying to get everything out to set-up it's red herrings moving the story along. It really doesn't generate the kind of proper structure here maintaining all these obscure characters and useless tangents looking at the other features that manage to hold the middle section into a veritable loop of rather bland moments which really slows it down, quite the opposite of what's really needed at that point in the film. Likewise, the other facet of this manifests itself in the fact that the killer is quite easy to guess and really doesn't come as that much of a surprise when it's revealed, leading to a slightly unimpressive finale because all the time has been spent on these other areas that it just feels quite lackluster. These here are the film's issues.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Language and mild sexual scenes.

The more so-called "giallos" you watch, the harder you feel the mighty power of Uncle Yawn – it's Groundhog Day again, with scalpel-wielding headcases, slapped faces, catholic chicks in heat, boobs alert, and another cheeeeesy screenplay fusing the spirit of an imbecile Hercule Poirot with the advanced aesthetics of the busty clip. This time two super-bimbos rent a flat in an apartment complex where a psycho killer hunts ... yo, man, super-bimbos! And the mounting tension indeed leads to some equally puzzling and disturbing questions: Why does Uruguayan coat-tree George Hilton always look like he flew in from Stepford? Was Bruno Nicolai's flatulent jingling originally composed for a Walmart Italia commercial? Did scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi really laugh so maniacally all the way to the bank? And why the heck is that pale brunette from the bunny dept. in every second fiasco, pardon me, giallo? Now, folks, that's a damn lot of red herrings.

I have just watched this and I enjoyed it immensely. I normally hate dubbed films but, while I would like to see a subtitled version, the person who did the dubbing seems to have had such fun with it and "got" all the characters so well that it doesn't matter! Well shot, lots of sexy scenes and many breast shots, along with a surprise killer revelation. The acting is of a surprisingly high standard, although this may be down to the dubbing again (God love the person who wrote it!). I'd love to find out how much the dialogue changed in translation, but until I can track down an Italian version I'm stuck! It may not be scary, and it may lack the brilliant characterisation of giallos like Profondo Rosso, but nonetheless this Case is one that is well worth opening up!