The Case of the Bloody Iris
The Case of the Bloody Iris is a 1972 film from Italy, directed by Giuliano Carnimeo, running 91 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Giuliano Carnimeo
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- The Case of the Bloody Iris
Defined in the glossary: Giallo
The Fenech giallo distilled to its purest form: models, murders, and no reason to solve any of it.
Edwige Fenech and George Hilton, the giallo's most reliable double act, in a body-count mystery set in a glossy Milan high-rise where the tenants keep getting killed. A model moves into an apartment whose last occupant was murdered in it, the neighbours are all suspects and all deviants, and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi throws red herrings faster than anyone can catch them. Nobody here is chasing Argento. The whole ambition is to put Fenech in peril in a nice frock for ninety minutes, and at that it is close to perfect. The plot is nonsense and the film knows it. Bright, silly, sleazy comfort viewing for the cycle's faithful.
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The cycle in depth
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
Filed alongside
All the Colors of the Dark
Satanic paranoia in Swinging London. Edwige Fenech is excellent.
StageFright
A killer in a giant owl mask, a locked theatre, and Soavi announcing himself.
The Psychic
Fulci does a clockwork giallo. A woman's vision of a murder turns out to be her own future.
The House with Laughing Windows
A rural giallo with no gloss and a deep, patient dread. Often voted the best one going.
Who Saw Her Die?
A child is murdered in Venice. A grieving father hunts the killer through the fog.
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
The Martino/Fenech formula, arriving fully formed. Cut and retitled Blade of the Ripper in the US.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
A family curse, a killer in a red cloak, and a legend that kills every hundred years.
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
The killer paralyses you first so you feel it. A first-rank giallo nobody name-checks.
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Best title in the genre. Poe adaptation with Edwige Fenech and a black cat.
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
A bridal-couture killer who narrates his own psychosis, and the best ghost gag Bava ever staged.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Fulci does psychedelia. The dog scene got him prosecuted.
Torso
Sleazy for an hour, then a brilliant silent final act.