TON VICE EST UNE CHAMBRE CLOSE DONT MOI SEUL AI LA CLÉ

Writer Oliviero is an abrasive drunk who amuses himself by holding drunken orgies at his grand country manor—much to the displeasure of his long-suffering wife. But this decadence is soon rocked by a series of grisly murders, in which Oliviero finds himself implicated.

Sergio Martino’s wonderfully titled film is a loose Italian adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story, “The Black Cat.” This being Italian genre cinema of the 1970s, of course, it’s equal parts horror and eroticism: a lurid giallo where nearly everyone ends up nude—or dead.