A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...
Directed byDemofilo Fidani
Screenplay by
  • Demofilo Fidani
  • Mila Vitelli
Story byDemofilo Fidani[1]
StarringPaola Senatore
CinematographyAldo Giordani[2]
Edited byPiera Bruni[2]
Music byCoriolano Gori[2]
Production
company
Tarquinia Internazionale Cinematografica[1]
Release date
1972

A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (lit.'A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services...') is a 1972 Italian giallo film directed by Demofilo Fidani.

Plot

Cristina is working as a call-girl. Her clients are mysteriously and brutally murdered one after another.

Cast

  • Paola Senatore as Cristina Graziani
  • Simonetta Vitelli (credited as Simone Blondell) as Paola[2])

Production

Film historian and critic Roberto Curti described A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... as being part of a minor wave of low-budget giallo films in second run and third-run venues.[3]

The film"s script was written by director Demofilo Fidani and his wife Mila Vitelli.[4] Unlike most of Fidani's films (predominantly Westerns) in which he is credited under an English alias, the director is credited by his (real) Italian name.[5]

Genre

The Italian database Cinematografo defines the film's subgenre as erotic thriller.[2] The film contains elements of horror[6] and slasher.[3]

Release

A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... was released in 1972.[7][8] For its release in France the same year, the film's version and its title (Caresses à domicile) are noted as "very daring",[9] the film being presented as a mere "erotic film" by La Revue du cinéma[10] or a 'porn third-rate production' by Écran'[11]

Reception

From retrospective reviews, Roberto Curti described the film as containing elements of Demofilo Fidani's typical style, specifically Western-type revolvers and villains falling in slow motion in "unlikely acrobatic manners."[7] Antonio Bruschini, of the Italian genre magazine Nocturno, found the ending of the film and the culprit predictable but noted that A.A.A. Massaggiatrice reflected the Argentinean atmosphere of the period.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (1972)". Archivio del cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...", Cinematograf.it (in Italian), retrieved July 31, 2023
  3. 1 2 Curti 2022, p. 224.
  4. Curti 2022, p. 226.
  5. 1 2 Bruschini.
  6. Palmerini & Mistretta 1996, p. 171.
  7. 1 2 Curti 2022, p. 225.
  8. Curti 2022, p. 9.
  9. Gomarasca, Manlio; Pulici, Davide (2013-07-24). La piccola cineteca degli orrori: Tutti i FILM che i fratelli Lumière non avrebbero mai voluto vedere (in Italian). Bureau. ISBN 978-88-586-5486-6.
  10. La Revue du cinéma: image et son (in French). Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente. 1974.
  11. Ecran (in French). Editions de l'Atlante. 1974.

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