Red Rings of Fear (, , ) is a 1978 giallo film directed by Alberto Negrin.
Plot A detective investigates the killing of a teenage girl and turns his suspicions on three girlfriends of the victim, who dub themselves "The Inseparables."
Production Red Rings of Fear is the third entry in a loosely linked series of film called the Schoolgirls in Peril trilogy,Mackenzie 2015 (0:07:35) a series of films based on the sexual exploits of young girls and their reaction to the adults. By 1974, audiences began to grow tired of the giallo genre and began having interest in other European genres such as the poliziotteschi, urban cop thrillers that were influenced by American films such as Dirty Harry and The French Connection.Mackenzie 2015 (0:18:05) Dallamano's second film in the Schoolgirls in Peril trilogy was What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, a film with similar themes to the first film What Have You Done to Solange?.Mackenzie 2015 (0:19:05) Red Rings of Fear has Dallamano credited as a screenwriter on the film, and was intended to direct the film, but he died before the film began production.Mackenzie 2015 (0:24:00)
Cast
Fabio Testi: Inspector Di Salvo Christine Kaufmann: Christina Ivan Desny: Inspector Roccaglio Jack Taylor: Parravicino Fausta Avelli: Emilia Helga Liné: Miss Russo
Release Red Rings of Fear was released in Italy on 19 August 1978.
Reception In a contemporary review, Paul Taylor (Monthly Film Bulletin) gave the film a negative review, calling it "a wholly inane and incoherent thriller, which scarcely seems to have benefited form the attentions of no less than six credited screenwriters." and that it featured a "bored-looking Fabio Testi, when not shooting gratuitous fill-ins (schoolgirls in the showers; an abortion sequence) from silly angles, Negrin peppers the proceedings with would-be enigmatic close-ups of car radiator grilles, a madonna statue and a watching eye, plus titillating flashbacks to the fatal party"
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External links
Red Rings of Fear at Variety Distribution