Hitch-Hike (1977)

Couple (Franco Nero and Corinne Cléry) that has totally dysfunctional relationship is returning home from their camping trip. They stop to pick up a hitch-hiker (David Hess). They soon learn that the hitch-hiker is wanted criminal and he wants them to take him to Mexico. Travel through hell is about begin!

I really liked this movie, the leading trio (Nero,Cléry and Hess) do a tremendous jobs as odd traveling company. Nero broke his arm during the filming of Keoma just prior the filming of Hitch-Hike was about to start. So they had to change the script to explain why Nero has a cast on his arm and Cléry had to drive the car instead of Nero.

Sometimes this movie is labeled as giallo but this is actually a really good thriller. The twist in the end was also a good one.

Directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile

Nine Guests for a Crime / Nove ospiti per un delitto (1977)

Film starts with a couple making out on a beach. Suddenly a group of men appears and they execute the man. Then they bury him on the beach. Fast forward 20 years. Group of nine people, all from the same family, return to this isolated island. They are killed one by one by a maniac who is stalking them. Has the buried man come back from the grave with a vengeance?

This one is a pretty average giallo. Nice scenery, couple of shots of female stars naked and some brutal murders sums it up pretty much. The tension that should have build between characters as they suspect each other to be the murderer just isn't there. Story line is somewhat borrowed from Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None".

This was the only giallo Ferdinando Baldi directed.