Lizard under female skin

Carol Ammond is the daughter of a London lawyer . She constantly has nightmares with erotic overtones. In these dreams, she makes love to her model friend Julia Durer, and in one of her dreams she kills her with a dagger . Carol talks about his dreams to his psychiatrist , he interprets her last dream as a discharge from obligations.

And at this time, Julia Durer was actually killed, in the morning she was found cut up with an office knife . And Carol becomes the prime suspect . Witnesses to the murder are a couple of hippies , but they were drugged by LSD - Carol also saw them in her dreams. Carol's father manages to get his daughter out of custody on bail . Inspector Corvin is looking for a thread that you can seize on in this matter.

Trying to figure out the murder is Carol Frank's husband, who is trying to decipher the dreams. A little later, Carol’s father is also accused of murder, he cannot endure such a shame and ends his life by suicide . In the end, it turns out that in fact Dürer was killed by Carol herself, who had a lesbian relationship with her. Carol killed her and came up with a psychoanalytic alibi to disguise the crime and avoid scandal .

• Florinda Balkan - Carol Hammond
• Stanley Baker - Inspector Corwin
• Jean Sorel - Frank Hammond, Carol's husband
• Sylvia Monti - Deborah, Frank's lover
• Anita Strindberg - Julia Durer
• Alberto de Mendoza - Sergeant Brandon
• Penny Brown - Jenny Hippy Girl
• Mike Kennedy - Hubert, hippy guy

In one episode of this film, mutilated but still alive dogs that were suffering from pain were shown. The director was accused of cruelty to animals , and he appeared in court , he was even threatened with a prison term . But Carlo Rambaldi , who did special effects in this picture, brought to the courthouse the models that were used on the set of the film, demonstrated them in his work, which proved the innocence of Lucio Fulci.

In the scene with bats, Rambaldi specially created mechanical bats that glided on wires and flapped wings. Subsequently, overlays of their shadows were added to the mice. This scene, according to Fulci, impressed Mario Bava himself . ^[one]

• Florinda Balkan , who starred Carol in this film, also starred in the television series Octopus , in which she played Countess Olga, in love with Commissioner Katani.
• Two versions of the film are known, one of which is truncated and lacks the above scenes with dogs, as well as a scene in which you can see a girl holding her insides. ^[2]
• According to Lucio Fulci, the ending of the film could include two options - fantastic and detective. The last option was insisted by the producers of the film. ^[one]

• Lizard Under Female Skin on the Internet Movie Database
• “Lizard Under Female Skin” on allmovie