qmtv Decent film. Cinematography, scenes and acting were good. The story needed much more work, and ending sucked. Not too many kills for a film named killer must kill again. There's a dead woman in the beginning. The wife gets strangled. Blond woman gets stabbed near the end. I was hoping the guy would have gotten killed, but he showed up later. The killer gets stabbed by the rape victim, good work. The cinematography was very good. Acting was good. The dialogue and the English dubbing sucked. The story needed much more work. It was slow and needed some more strange scenes. The ending sucked, with the husband finding the killers car and his dead wife in the trunk. He then drives it off to a waterfront to dump the car. Why not leave the car for the cops to find? So, if this is a giallo, it failed. It didn't have any twist and turns. The just needed to work on the story more. It was professionally produced. Some of the music/sound effects were misplaced.One scene stands out, the sex scene with the Male Carjacker and the Blond woman, edited back and forth with the Killer raping the Female Carjacker. It looked like the Killer was almost shown more humanized. Maybe that's why he didn't killer her. The actor playing the Killer did a great job.Rating is a C, or 5 stars. The ending was just garbage. If they had a tighter story, less car chase scenes, more kills and graphics, and definitely a better ending, this could have been a 7 or 8 stars.

Cujo108 Mr. Mainardi (Euro fave, George Hilton) accidentally witnesses a man (Michel Antoine) dumping a body. Rather than report the crime to the police, Mainardi blackmails him into murdering his wealthy wife, Norma. Things go smoothly, but before the killer can dispose of Norma's body, a delinquent couple steals the car which has the corpse stashed in the trunk. The maniac begins tracking them down as the two are completely oblivious to what they've gotten themselves into.Before I bought and watched "The Killer Must Kill Again", Luigi Cozzi wasn't a director I had been particularly fond of. Being the sucker for gialli that I am, I decided to take a chance on this one when the DVD hit. While this isn't in the upper tier of Italian horror, it did prove to me that Cozzi is quite capable of doing something above substandard sleaze and cheese.This is actually a quality film, though I fail to see how it has found itself classified as a giallo. We know who the killer if from the get-go, though he is never named. There is no mystery here unless you wonder what led to his initial murder which Mainardi stumbles upon. I have to say that it reminded me of Hitchcock's classic suspense pictures more than it did any giallo. "Dial M for Murder" definitely came to mind at first, but then it went off in it's own direction. On the other hand, as is usually the case in the giallo sub-genre, virtually none of the characters are totally innocent. The protagonists steal a car and $150, plus they lie constantly. I also thought it was amusing how Luca is romancing this girl, only to help another girl on the side of a road and then do her in the stolen car. Sometimes you just have to get any wherever you can! My main issue with the film is that after the car is stolen, it gets bogged down and doesn't really pick up again until the killer finds the couple. This portion could have been spiced up a bit.The killer himself is actually a pretty intimidating fellow, what with Michel Antoine's reptilian facial features and large build, but he definitely has a lot of hell in this movie. Things just never seem to go right for him. As the greedy blackmailer, George Hilton is convincingly suave, even with the weird sideburns. These two make for a fine pair of villains.Cozzi's direction is solid, and there are only a few small doses of the cheese that would dominate many of his later films. He employs some nifty camera tricks that he surely picked up from Argento. I also liked how he had the two very different sex scenes playing out seamlessly at the same time. In fact, that mean-spirited rape is the only real bit of nastiness on display here. Again, not the norm for a giallo, but the lack of it certainly doesn't hurt the film any.Overall, this is a fine piece of work from a man who I originally had pegged as another Bruno Mattei. Any fan of the gialli sub-genre should be pleased, even if it isn't a giallo in the truest sense of the word. While the pacing goes off the rails at one point and the climax feels a tad anti-climatic, it's not enough to ruin things.

christopher-underwood I really only need to repeat my video review and wonder if it doesn't deserve that extra point - maybe when I've listened to the commentary track! 'Excellent sleazy giallo with fairly original plot line. Simple (thank goodness) tale which although it involves someone getting someone else to kill their wife, is complicated by the fact that the killer's car gets stolen and the body with it. Great sleaze scene in the middle when boy and girl break off from sex ('cause she's peckish!) and he picks up a fast blonde. Whilst killer/rapist takes his girl's virginity, he's humping the blonde and both scenes are intercut accompanied by sounds of pain and pleasure, all nicely confused.'

czarnobog This is a very well-done thriller. A bit bloodier and nastier than Hitchcock's work, but very close in tone and production value. In fact, the editing was very precise, apparently tightly storyboarded, which was Hitchcock's method.The locations are few but perfect. The "ugly yellow house" described in another review was actually very cool; the yellow walls appear to be painted with expensive Dutch enamel. Typical bold and imaginative Italian design.The costumes are subtle, simple, but equally effective. Cristina Galdo in her soft jeans and innocent blouse is an incredibly alluring and convincing virgin. Michel Antoine, the killer, is tall and angular, with a James Woodsian countenance, cool and sinister in chic black pants and turtleneck.The DVD is nicely done. Great sound and picture, and extras worth checking out.If you like thrillers, definitely go for this one. Even if you have a hard time with foreign films, you will find this one palatable, with very smooth dubbing, an attractive and capable cast, and a solid, unpredictable storyline, delivered by a master director.