For episode 33 we venture once again into the realms of
Euro-Crime to see how the criminal side of life lives. In this case we have a
mad killer haunted by Germany 's
Nazi past running around Berlin
shooting people. His modus operandi is a strange one as it involves always
attacking couples and centers on a particular hatred of the female each time. Bizarre!
THE CRIMES OF PETIOT was Paul Naschy's second collaboration
with director Jose Luis Madrid. Their two films together were both of the crime
story type and centered on deranged killers making eager over thinkers like
your humble podcasters wonder about the shared themes that drive some men's
art. Could the sublimated desire to act upon dark urges to both reflect the
harsh actions of the recent past and repudiate the hideous history of the
Second World War simultaneously have caused the growing trend of overly violent
movies? Could the creeping misogyny of films that focus on duplicitous women
have something to do with the emergent women's rights movement of the 1970s? Or
could it just be that killing pretty girls and splashing blood around the
screen was a surefire way to get an exploitation film into theaters? I think we
all know the answer, huh?
Join us as we march our way scene by scene through this very
hard to find film. Have we discovered another little known masterpiece or
something further down the scale? For those that want to avoid spoilers we
start ruining the reveal at about the 1:33 (one hour and thirty-three minute)
mark and finish that kind of talk by the 1:50 (one hour and fifty minute) mark.
Make your listening choices accordingly. And please drop us a line at
naschycast@gmail.com to let us know your thoughts on the show, Naschy, Spanish
Cinema or any other subject that comes to mind. And I'm trying out a new
download service for those of you that grab the MP3 directly instead of from
iTunes or streaming through Stitcher. The link below will (hopefully) take you
to DropBox but if it doesn't work please let me know.
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