Friday, December 30, 2016

The Sister of Ursula (1978)

"The Sister of Ursula" is a decent 'erotic giallo' that could have certainly strengthened its overall impression on me had it upped its game on the violence factor a bit. Still, one can't complain too much with a flick so loaded with incredibly sexy naked ladies.

Two sisters - one seemingly normal and one exhibiting behavioral problems (both hot...) - arrive at a ritzy Italian hotel in search of their estranged mother to divvy up their father's inheritance with. Shortly after they show up, people around the hotel begin turning up murdered - mostly slutty women who make the mistake of paying the killer to watch them have sex from the closet before the looky-loo emerges with, what appears to be a giant hard-on (seen via shadow silhouette on the wall...). They're eventually found with mangled lady-parts and the police investigation is weighing heavy on the hotel owner. There's also some shit going on with Ursula (the mentally troubled sister...) and her apparent psychic powers and a heroin addict trying to hook up with the hotel's lounge singer...

The storyline here is a little hit-and-miss; tending to drag in spots and get a little long-winded, while throwing in a decent curve-ball here 'n' there. The kill scenes are pretty rushed, non-gory and few and far between, which definitely adds to the movies slowness at times. As I mentioned, however, the saving grace of "Ursula" is in the nudity and 'soft-core' scenes that are frequent enough to give this flick a solid recommendation.

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