Autopsy aka Sunspots (1975)
A strange Giallo concerning a spate of apparent suicides in Rome among them the sister of mortician Mimsy Farmer. However when a priest (Barry Primus) tells her he suspects her sister was in fact murdered.
Co-starring Ray Lovelock, this has quite an unusual and very hallucinatory opening as the dead seem to be coming back to life in front of Farmer. It's a wild sequence and quite gory in a Fulci-esq way but sadly the film doesn't really follow up on such a memorable beginning but it does hit it's stride in traditional Giallo territory.
Armando Crispino's film is fairly straightforward in Giallo terms and it's gimmick of sunspots, albeit sunspots that i thought were images of a volcanic eruption, before a death certainly different. The film has a lovely score from the great Ennio Morricone and some lovely Rome location work. Like me you'll probably ignore the main conversation and stare in fascination at the imagery when Farmer visits the 'Death Museum'. Some of the images are truly f*cked up.
I hadn't seen Autopsy in years, probably over a decade, and i really enjoyed it once more. Helped no end that it felt like i was watching a new film.
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