Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

myriam-z The film looks like a classic Italian Giallo, almost a parody, with eroticism and many nude scenes. Actually, it's a good psychological thriller. The director Lamberto Bava manages to keep the suspense till the end, with a lot of false leads and several suspects. The most interesting part of the film is that the spectator can see the murder through the killer's eyes, his sick mind. Bizarre homicides, beautiful use of colors, cool soundtrack. Serena Grandi and the models are just gorgeous and sexy, David Brandon plays his part very convincingly, just a cameo role for George Eastman, Capucine shows off her class in the small role, the rival. I would like to say thank you to Lamberto Bava for choosing Vanni Corbellini, Gioia's brother, very talented actor. In the end, there are many psychoanalytic themes.... Delirium: Photo of Gioia is ultimately a pleasant, interesting, bizarre and surreal movie.

Bezenby Daria Nicoladi (Shock, Tenebrae), David Brandon (Stagefright), George Eastman (The Unholy Four, Endgame), Lino Salemme (Graveyard Disturbance, Demonia) and some guy from Demons whose name I'll never remember all star in Lamberto Bava's very late entry into the Giallo genre, with some trippiness thrown in and an absolute avalanche of female nudity, all done late eighties style. Oh yeah.After an eye popping collage of jazz mag photographs involving a model, we cut to said model now overseeing a similar photo shoot outside of her house. Her name is Gloria, and she's got huge…tracts of land, if you know what I mean. Her assistant is Daria Nicoladi, and also in attendance are photographer Robert (Brandon), brother Tom, and a new model, Kelly. Also present, via a telescope, is crippled youngster Mark, who constantly spies on Gloria and calls her over to touch his tooter, which I've got to say she declines with a patience that would be unheard of these days.You see, Gloria used to be a model and worked for a magazine owned by ex-friend Sasha, but these days she's branched out on her own, with a magazine called Pussycat. The thing is, someone has it in for her, as we see the screen start to flash red and blue, and a killer appears, hallucinating that Kelly has a face composed entirely of an eyeball. Kelly shortly gets a pitchfork through her midriff and Gloria receives some pictures in the post of a dead Kelly, with a Gloria photo backdrop.So, it's Giallo time, rather than slasher time. Loads of suspects, loads of red herrings, and let's be honest, loads and loads and loads of boobs. Another model, Sabrina, gets stung to death by bees (and the killer sees her with the head of a bee) and Gloria receives more pictures in the post. At this time there's a great scene at the Cinecitta where Gloria bumps into ex-boyfriend George Eastman (she walks past some extras from a zombie film on the way there!) and the two of them hit it off, leading Eastman to have sex with her in a Jacuzzi, the jammy get. In slow motion. The thing is, George isn't exactly telling the truth of what he's doing, seemingly called her from Greece even though we can see the Coliseum in the background.There's a lot of this going on in Delerium. Just about every character has something ambiguous going on from Sasha to George to Roberto etc, and although Bava keeps the body count light, it leaves still a lot of suspects as the film draws to a close, while Gloria and cop Lino Salemme try and figure out what's going on. The Roman locations are great (including a scene in the Cimitri Verano) and Bava's made everything extremely stylish. It's kind of lacking the cheese department, but more than makes up for it with the crazy visuals. I thought I had the killer pegged at one point, but then changed my mind, then changed my mind again even though it turned out I was right. That's the sign of a good giallo there.I think Bava does a lot better with the giallo here than he did in Blade in the Dark (although that's worth a watch too), and although this is probably not a film you'd watch with your missus, it's definitely one to seek out.

ferbs54 Lamberto Bava followed up his nonsensical splatterfests "Demons" and "Demons 2" with the far less sanguine but infinitely more coherent giallo thriller "Delirium" (1987), aka "Photos of Gioia." In this one, voluMptuous Serena Grandi plays Gloria, publisher of a men's nudie mag called "Pussycat" (a character possibly based on Christie Hefner, who had assumed the helm at "Playboy" five years earlier), whose models have lately started to be gruesomely done away with by a serial killer. Many suspects abound, including Gloria's personal assistant (played by giallo vet Daria Nicolodi), her gay photographer, the wheelchair-bound Peeping Tom across the way, her duplicitous ex-lover (George Eastman), and a lesbian publishing rival (portrayed by Capucine, in one of her last roles). As far as those murders go, they are a fairly tame lot (for the viewer, that is!), employing a pitchfork, bumblebees (the bee attacks in the 1967 British film "The Deadly Bees" were much more hideous) and the usual slashings. We get to see some very interesting POV shots through the killer's eyes, and regard the victims as having eyeball and bee heads! Yes, this killer is one sick puppy, and his/her motivations, when ultimately revealed, are pretty friggin' twisted. Don't even try to guess, is my advice; just sit back and enjoy Serena's toothsome presence (the gal looks great in a soaking-wet negligee!), several genuinely suspenseful sequences (the one with the killer stalking Gloria through a department store is particularly good), the sumptuous sets, and Bava's often-flashy directorial touches. "Delirium" is not a top-drawer giallo, but it is well put together (like its star!), entertaining and often gripping. Nice work, Lamberto; papa Mario would have been proud!

slayrrr666 "Delirium: Photo of Gioia" is an incredibly fun and enjoyable later-era giallo.**SPOILERS**Retired from the business, former model Gioia, (Serena Grandi) decides to concentrate more on her new men's magazine with her assistant Evelyn, (Daria Nicolodi) and photography brother Tony, (Vanni Corbellini) which becomes a big success. When one of her models turns up dead one day in a photograph posed in front of one of her past layouts, Inspector Corsi, (Lino Salemme) is assigned to the case, and as she tries to get on with her life, the more the incidents start repeating themselves. Convinced she's the next target, she tries to find the killer before she and the rest of her friends are killed as well, leading to a shocking revelation that none of them expected.The Good News: There was a lot of good stuff to this one. One of it's better elements is that, like all good giallos, there's moments where it's weird for no sake other than being so. None is more obvious than the early kills, which are just plain odd and incredibly weird. One attack features a model wearing their normal outfit, but when it turns to the killer's POV, the head disappears and a singular gigantic eyeball takes it's place, while the entire background changes to a red-filtered look for the duration until the final blow, where the red-filters come off and the it disappears into the regular face, a really bizarre image at the very least. A later one, where the same murder-vision occurs again, only to change into a gigantic bee-mask instead. It fits in with the kill method, but the fact that it makes for a completely bizarre and weird image on it's own is another great plus, which makes them so great. The killer's tactic with the photographs and the dead bodies is another strange tactic, and one that definitely works a lot more due to it's rather unique and original concept. The photo-shoots also count here, which are quite unusual and work for getting several great pluses into the film. The first one is pretty much an extended excuse to get a ton of nudity into the proceedings, while the second one is simply incredible, featuring one of the better parts of the film. The nudity is present again,, but the fact that it goes off into horror film territory, with the mummies and the fog working in great opportunity to allow for some rather fun moments in here, which is what makes it stand out quite nicely. The whole scene is just fantastic, and along with the length and aftermath, they're both great scenes. The rest of the film's sleaze and nudity here are just as much fun, which is quite nice as the lead who provides just about all of the nudity is provided by the one best qualified to do so, and that's a fantastic quality to have. Plus, it also needs the sleaze to come in from the incest theme brought aboard at the very end, which is definitely unexpected and makes the scenes all the better and dirtier when combined with the elements that are brought into the film before, all added together make for an incredibly sleazy scene that is a great touch to the film. Other bits of nudity, including several other sex scenes, a couple undressing scenes or just moments where they walk around nude or topless, and the film is really packed with nudity. There's also some really nice elements here from the horror aspect, which is really nice. From the first two kills being just absolutely-standard giallo kills that have to be seen to be believed along with the fun revelation of the killer's identity, this one has some really great moments to come from the horror side. The last plus about that is the chase through the department store, which has a lot going for it. With the different elements presented throughout the lengthy battle, with everything from jumps, stalking and more crammed into it, make it one of the best aspects of the film. These here are all that's right with the film.The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong with this one. One of it's problems is that there's hardly any on-screen blood or gore in here, which is a pretty big factor here. Rather than actually featuring something worthwhile after the opening entries, it devolves into aftermath that isn't exactly all too graphic at all or are killed in completely non-violent ways, effectively neutering whatever chance it had to be bloody from the start. Add into that the incredibly low body count, which is less than half-a-dozen and there's not really a lot that can be done with that much to give a lot anyway, so the kills are pretty much doomed from the start. The only other area it fails here is the pretty slow middle segment, where hardly anything happens. It develops a romance angle that goes nowhere, it spends hardly any time on the killings or investigation or features barely any scares at all, making it just drag on. The nudity does help, but that's about it as the rest isn't that exciting at all and does some really damage to this section. These here are the film's only real flaws.The Final Verdict: Even though it's not that violent, there's still enough to enjoy elsewhere from this one that it still lands quite easily in the enjoyable side. Give this one a shot if you're into giallos, a fan of the creative side or the cast or into European horror, while those who aren't should heed caution.Rated UR/R: Nudity, Violence and some Language