Autopsy

Overview

A young med student is doing his grad work at the local morgue when a series of mysterious and unexplained deaths (ascribed to suicide) surround her. The sudden influx of corpses is more than this fellow can handle.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/27/2007
UPC:	0827058104296
Original Release:	1974
Rating:	NR
Source:	Blue Underground
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	37,771

Special Features

International The Victim trailer; U.S. theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mimsy Farmer	Simona Sana
Barry Primus	Father Paul Lenox
Ray Lovelock	Riccardo,Actor
Angela Goodwin	Daniela
Carlo Cattaneo	Lello Sanna
Massimo Serato	Gianni Sana
Gaby Wagner	Betty Lenox
Ernesto Colli	Actor
Leonardo Severini	Actor
Eleonora Morana	Actor
Antonio Casale	Actor
Giovanni Di Benedetto	Actor
Maria Pia Attanasio	Actor
Ennio Morricone	Composer

Technical Credits

Armando Crispino	Director
Leonardo Pescarolo	Producer

Editorial Reviews

This creepy whodunit, better known on these shores as Autopsy, offers a few chills but is ultimately unsatisfying. On the plus side, Macchie Solari has a high level of technical polish: Carlo Carlini's photography uses the beautiful vistas of Rome as an effectively ironic contrast to story's often grisly events and Ennio Morricone's stylish score effectively mixes dreamy, lyrical themes and stark, atonal suspense music. Director Armando Crispino also manages to create a few memorably intense moments of suspense, the best being a scene where the heroine is stalked by the killer through a museum exhibit full of gruesome death-scene photos and a moment where she hallucinates about a series of corpses returning to life in the morgue. Unfortunately, Macchie Solari falls short in the storytelling department due to a weak script: an intriguing subplot about sunspot activity influencing suicidal behavior is briefly introduced then forgotten, the revelation of the killer isn't terribly surprising since there are so few suspects and the finale is rather abrupt and anti-climactic. The actor struggle gamely with the material (Barry Primus gives a particularly vivid performance as troubled priest Paul Lenox) but they are saddled with thin, often grating characterizations make it virtually impossible for the viewer to become involved in the story. As a result, Macchie Solari can only be recommended to Euro-horror addicts.