Red Rings of Fear (1978)
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- Synopsis:
- When the brutally violated body of a teenage girl is found wrapped in plastic, Inspector Gianni Di Salvo (Fabio Testi) is drawn to dark deeds at an exclusive girls’ school where the attractive members of a group called the Inseparables are being targeted with sinister letters and murder attempts by a killer using the name ‘Nemesis’. Following up a clue found in the dead girl’s diary, Di Salvo discovers that anyone could be harbouring deadly secrets as he untangles a web of sex and homicide…
- Actors:
- Fabio Testi, Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny, Jack Taylor, Bruno Alessandro, María Asquerino, Helga Liné, Silvia Aguilar, Taida Urruzola, Tony Isbert, Fausta Avelli, Albertina, Fabián Conde, Brigitte Wagner, Carmen Carro
- Directors:
- Alberto Negrin
- Writers:
- Peter Berling, Marcello Coscia
- Aka:
- Enigma rosso
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Italy
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Reviews (1) of Red Rings of Fear
Final piece of the trilogy ... - Red Rings of Fear review by NP
Fabio Testi certainly played some unorthodox ‘heroes’ in these Giallo films. Here he’s a police inspector who is quite happily having an implied affair with a habitual shoplifter. No wonder little Fauta Avelli says, “I don’t know if I can trust you.”
‘Red Rings of Fear’ is actually the final film in a ‘schoolgirls in peril’ trilogy, which also included the superior ‘What Have they Done to Solange?’ and completed with the mediocre ‘What Have They Done to our Daughters?’, and with an umbrella title like that, you know the level of sleaze you’re wading into.
A group of teenage girls known as The Inseparables seem to know more than they’re letting on regarding a recent murder, and so – purely in the line of duty, Inspector Gianni Di Salvo (Testi) turns his (professional) attention onto them.
Giallis are often accompanied by a memorable score, often by Ennio Morricone, Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai or as here, Riz Ortolani, who fills his soundtrack with ambient thumps and crashes rather than infectious melodies.
The ending is both a surprise and a shock and proves to be the highlight of an entertaining, but middling, Giallo film. My score is 6 out of 10.