Body Puzzle (1992)
A rather poor later giallo from Lamberto Bava, a director who should know better. Coming across like amateur hour, the film is riddled with both editing and continuity errors. Watch the toilet cubicle murder. It's awful. The victim whose arm is grabbed under the cubicle switches from side to side and the killer is outside the cubicle, then in the next cubicle, seriously it's really poorly edited. There's also a murder in a swimming pool where a man is repeatedly stabbed to death. There's no blood in the water at all. Then of course there's the freezer sequence... honestly it's just inept rubbish.
I first saw Body Puzzle on vhs and thought it poor. The passage of time can change your mind though, but in this case it's just as bad as i remembered and makes films such as Argento's The Card Player and Giallo seem like masterpieces of the genre.
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