Homicide in
Blue Light
Italy
1991. Director: Al Bradley (Alfonso Brescia)
Cast: David Hess, Florence Guerin, Brian Peterson, Rick Battaglia
Aka:
Omicidio a Luci Blue
A fashion model by day, a prostitute by night.
Starlet (Guerin) is a famous model during the day-shift who at night
transforms into Jeezebel. Dressed in something Julia Roberts left behind
from Pretty Woman she plays naughty games with rich guys in her
little appartment while her boyfriend watches from behind a wall. One
day some Chinese guy arrive and want to play doctor and have an enema
(he even brings his own equipment in a holy blue box). Jeezebel think
he's a nut and after some argument the guy runs away. The watching boyfriend
runs after and eventually finds the guy dead with a hand-grenade between
his legs. A shady case for inspector Flannegan (Hess) who arrives to
the crime-scene.
I really don't know how to defend this movie. Everything in it is like a cheap imitation of something better. The music sounds like something from a Dario Argento-film, the set design looks like music video left-overs and David Hess is not at all like in Last House on the Left. He's nice. But I liked the colorful studio sets and the bizzarely stylish photography. And the scenes of silly game-playing are pretty interesting also. Even if the story seem to have been written as an after-thought, to link together a couple of scenes where leggy Guerin is being photgraphed in various swimsuits. Director Alfonso Brescia has also taken a lot of shit over the years, being called this and that. But I think he has done some cool stuff. Like War of the Robots or Amazons for instance. Or like dressing up David Hess in women's clothes, as he does here.
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