#Janet argen movie#
The cinematography, courtesy of Giovanni Bergamini, who served as cinematographer on noteworthy Italian genre classics like Cannibal Ferox, The Inglorious Bastards and The Heroin Busters, is quite good, ensuring that the movie always looks pretty decent in terms of lighting and framing. Most of the gore here is pretty cartoonish rather than upsetting or disturbing, but there's the whole quantity over quality thing to consider. If you're not, well, the makeup effects are fun but never particularly convincing. The production values are about what you'd expect them to be if you've familiar with low budget Italian horror pictures. Ricci is pretty fun as the doctor, hamming it up a bit here and there, while the beautiful Swedish born Janet Argen, who also worked with Fulci on City Of The Living Dead in additiona to starring in cult classics like Umberto Lenzi's Eaten Alive and Sergio Martino's Hands Of Steel, handles her role without any issues and looks great doing it. Captain Kirk!), using his fairly dashing screen presence and natural charisma to keep the audience on his side. Probably best known in horror movie circles for his work on Lucio Fulci's The Beyond and The Black Cat, he's pretty solid in the lead here (it's also amusing to see him play a character named…. The script might never be particularly concerned with realism or originality but it offers up a few decent gore set pieces and some nubile actresses in a state of undress, and that'll count for something on the B-movie scorecard.Īs far as the cast goes, Warbeck is the big draw here. Ricci (who was often credited as Anthony Richmond) keeps things moving at a nice clip, pacing the film well and never going too long without giving the audience the sex and violence that it wants from a picture like this.
Yeah, fine, it's never convincing in its depictions of its English town setting, this was clearly made in Italy and with a lot of Italians in front of and behind the camera, but that just adds to the goofy fun of the film. As he goes about picking off horny teenagers first and random townsfolk after that, the murders soon come to the attention of the heroic Captain Kirk (David Warbeck), with some help from Jane Blake (Janet Argen), who finds himself in a rush against time to bring the monster in and stop the bacteria from spreading before the military comes in and lays waste to the entire town!įans of cheap, schlocky B-movies will get a kick out of this one.
Of course, this being a quickly made, low budget horror movie and all, this dangerous strain of bacteria makes its way into the body of the good doctor, whose face turns into a melted, globby mess and turns him into a bloodthirsty monster. The experiments that he does on his lab animals soon proves to have unexpected results when they critters turn on one another and kill! Tonino Ricci's 1982 film Panic introduces us to Professor Adams (Roberto Ricci), a mad scientist of sorts who has set up shop for himself in a quaint English town where he's researching bacteria of some sort.
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