Locura homicida (1981)

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Murder Obsession, a.k.a. Fear, is a 1981 giallo-horror film directed by Riccardo Freda, and starring Laura Gemser, Silvia Dionisio and Anita Strindberg. It’s an international co-production film between Italy and France.

Production

Around 1969, Fabio Piccioni wrote a short story titled Il grido del Capricorno, which he later adapted into an adult comic book in the Oltretomba series. Living across from the office of Salvatore Argento, Piccioni approached Argento and sold him the rights to Il grido del Capricorno for 500,000 Italian lire. Some elements of Il grido del capricorno would later appear in Dario Argento's films The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Deep Red.

According to Riccardo Freda's daughter Jacqueline Freda, her father took on the script to re-enter the film market after his latest absence from the industry, and to earn potential financing for a pet project based on the life of Italian World War I fighter ace Francesco Baracca. Murder Obsession was an Italian and French co-production, with the Italian producer Enzo Boetani and his company Dinoysio Cinematografica.

Filming went on for three weeks in April 1980, predominantly in Palace Borghese in Artena and at Parco della Mola in Oriolo Romano. Actress Laura Gemser recalled her negative experience making the film, describing the filming as a "nightmare", specifically mentioning a scene where Anita Strindberg used a real knife to pretend to stab her.

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