Torso

Director: Sergio Martino
Year Released: 1973
Rating: 1.5

A lunatic wearing a crude-looking balaclava is targeting students taking summer classes at the University for Foreigners of Perugia (in Italy) and strangling them with a distinctive red and black colored scarf (before cutting them open with a knife) and everyone's understandably concerned, and then this murderer targets American student Jane (Suzy Kendall) as well as her attractive friends.  As with so many other gialli, this is crudely made and contains more than one truly laugh out loud moment (the child falling off a cliff is unexpectedly hilarious) but it does try its best to "conceal" the identity of the antagonist with various red herrings and really leans into its sleazy side (which would not be permissible today) as the camera shamelessly lingers over all those pretty and topless 70's ladies.  The on-screen title translates to "The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence" which is quite literal - instead of the medical term they replaced it with for the U.S. release, it could have just been called "Bazoombas."