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Edwige Fenech (born December 24, 1948 as Edwige Sfenek in Annaba (former French Bône), Algeria) is a french-born Italian actress and film producer.She was born to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. She started to work thanks to her great sex-appeal. In the 1970s and 1980s she was an italian movie star, starring in a large number of erotic comedies, most of which were directed by Sergio Martino. In the mid-90s, she was engaged to famous Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo. After many years of work in movie production (she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice, 2004, with Al Pacino), Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to star in another movie, Hostel 2 (2007), directed by Eli Roth.
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Oliverio gets a notice telling him that his niece, Floriana (Edwige Fenech) is on her way to stay for a few days. Upon her arrival, she automatically notices the abuse that Oliverio hands to Irina. She explains to Irina that she is there to help her through this rough time and to trust her. In doing so, Irina tells Floriana everything that has happened. While all of this is going on, there is a string of ghastly murders terrorizing the local town. Though short lived, the murdered is found, though many secrets lay waiting to be exposed.
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Striking Algerian beauty Edwige Fenech stars as Jane, a troubled young woman who just miscarried her unborn baby in a car accident which her doctor boyfriend Richard blames himself for. She begins having strange surrealistic nightmares, featuring cackling toothless women in baby bonnets, a knife-wielding killer with piercing blue eyes and screaming nude women stabbed to death in their beds. Visits to her sister's psychiatrist do no good, and the medicine Richard prescribes to her intensifies her fear. To make matters worse, the blue-eyed killer from her dreams begins appearing in her reality as well, following her on the subway, through the park and stalking her in her apartment building. Help comes in the form of her neighbor, Mary, who introduces her to a black magic cult which she promises will cure her of her troubles by performing a black sabbath. However, the terrifying experience only leaves Jane even more fragile and haunted than she was before.
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Though, both Luigi Pistilli and Anita Strindberg are the central characters for the most part of the film, it isn’t until Edwige Fenech shows up that the real fun begins. With her sex appeal, though I’m not a big advocate of her with short hair. Her on screen lure once again is exploited perfectly by Martino. Though unlike other films she has an evil streak, all of her usual innocents as been wiped out. This is something that brings a whole new dimension to her appeal, one that is just as deadly if not more then when she plays the victim. Her sex scene with Anita Strindberg just sizzles the screen, you can’t even notice that they were new to this type of situation.
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It is unfortunate that with the departure of Kit Gavin and Mike Baronas in the extras department, interviews with Edwige Fenech, Marina Malfatti and Nieves Navarro could not be included. But new supplements producer Paolo Zelati still has provided good video interviews with star George Hilton and director Sergio Martino. Hilton remembers his regular appearances in westerns kept him branching out into many other genres, so he was grateful to have appeared in a number of gialli and still be recognized from them today. He ... recalls first meeting Edwige and their lifelong friendship; the duo made six films together, three of which were gialli. Martino (who has still not really been given his due as a genre director) discusses the film being ahead of its time in terms of plot structure, scouting locations for the film in London and audience confusion over the dream sequences vs. the reality. Not too many nuggets of info discussing the shooting of the film and working with Edwige (who he frequently cast in his gialli), but an interesting interview nonetheless.
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Edwige Fenech was born on December 24, 1948 in Bône, Algeria. Her father was Maltese and her mother was Italian. Fenech took part in a number of beauty contests as a young girl, winning the title of "Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur" at just 16 years of age; later, she began working as a model. During the Cannes Film Festival, she was invited to take part in the Miss France contest, and won it.
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