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1977
Nove ospiti per un delitto
Directed by Ferdinando Baldi
Synopsis
Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past. But when their boats are sabotaged, thus stranding them without any connection to the mainland, it becomes clear that someone is not willing to let old wounds heal, a fact made all the more clear as bodies start to pile up...
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Cast
Arthur Kennedy John Richardson Caroline Laurence Massimo Foschi Loretta Persichetti Sofia Dionisio Dana Ghia Rita Silva Venantino Venantini
DirectorDirector
Ferdinando Baldi
ProducersProducers
Mario Di Nardo Mario Forges Davanzati
WriterWriter
Fabio Pittorru
StoryStory
Fabio Pittorru
EditorEditor
Enzo Micarelli
CinematographyCinematography
Sergio Rubini
Assistant DirectorAsst. Director
Raffaele Errigo
Executive ProducerExec. Producer
Nino Segurini
Camera OperatorCamera Operator
Dante Di Palma
Additional PhotographyAdd. Photography
Ettore Corso
Production DesignProduction Design
Giovanni Licheri
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Loriano Cartesi
Visual EffectsVisual Effects
Mauro Grilli
ComposerComposer
Carlo Savina
SoundSound
Renato Cadueri Pietro Spadoni
MakeupMakeup
Marisa Marconi
HairstylingHairstyling
Lidia Puglia
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Italy
Language
Italian
Alternative Titles
Neun Gäste für den Tod, Un urlo nella notte, Девять гостей для убийства, 血手淫心, 一岛九命
Genres
Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
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12 Jan 1977
Italy
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Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★
And Then There Were None; sleazoid Italian rendition. Wow, these people are really living it up! Sailing, sun bathing, drinking copious amounts of J&B and fucking. Count me in! Oh wait, some mysterious figure starts their killing spree. Never mind, I think I'll pass.
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Review by Sally Jane Black
A beautiful trash novel. What I love about this one, other than the nonsensically obvious twists and the gorgeous location, is the costumes. Some of the things our characters wear here are just these loose, pointlessly see-through, flowing drapes of brightly patterned cloth and I want all of them. For lounging sexily in. You could even murder me, I don't give a fuck, just let me lounge sexily on an island in the middle of nowhere.
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Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★
Solid whodunit/body-count Giallo that reminded me a bit of Mario Bava’s Five Dolls for an August Moon. Could have used a little bit more tension but the guessing game is fun enough. The kills are a bit weak and none of the characters are sympathetic or even relatable. But the location is nice, the nudity is plenty and it's paced well enough. Nine Guests for a Crime is not a classic of lost gem of the genre. But ok Giallo fodder for in-between. Earns its place in the Vinegar Syndrome Forgotten Gialli: Volume Five Box-set.
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Review by 13beersl8r ★★★½
Traditional revenge flick with supernatural overtones where a family of detestable rich crusties pay for their past transgressions with blood and violence. Solid body count and nipples as far as the eye can see. So many nipples. Hurrah for giallo January.
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Review by Ian Kemper ★★★½ 4
When your film starts off with one half of a copulating couple getting shotgun blasted and live buried on a sandy beach, that sets a pretty high bar for the movie's remainder. Not to worry though because 20 years pass and we are treated to an island vacationing family of shitheads and their very horny, very sleezy, very nude spouses. And copious amounts of J&B. And someone killing them off one by one.
A giallo in the 10 Little Indians style of diminishing participants, this one takes producer Mario di Nardo's previous giallo script Five Dolls for an August Moon, strips all the Bava creativity from it, and hires journeyman director Ferdinando Baldi to sleeze it up with more tits,…
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Review by Gentry ★★½
“Tell your husband he’s a huge cuckold, if you don't mind.”
Five Dolls for an August Moon, but way sluttier. It does feel like we’re reaching the bottom of the genre’s barrel, only a few fetid pools left to lap up. Three bitchy couples, alone on an island, picked off one-by-one. Yes, we’ve been here before. In the words of Troy Howarth:
While Bava’s effort, for all its narrative issues, is loaded with directorial touches of an inspired nature, Baldi’s is never more than adequate.
In a fun bit of trivia, the producer of this film, Mario Di Nardo, wrote the original screenplay for Five Dolls, which Bava ended up tossing into the wastepaper basket, opting for improvisation over strict…
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Review by Gentry ★★★½
“There’s logic in this madness.”
The film is part of the subgenre of "desert island gialli," typified by the likes of Five Dolls for an August Moon or Top Sensation, but it also taps into the Gothic horror genre in some respects as well. The horror elements do not manifest themselves by way of shadowy atmosphere, however, but in the concept of a family united by a shameful secret that is threatening to destroy them.
— Troy Howarth, So Deadly, So Perverse Vol. 2I was wrong about this one, it's great. Quite possibly the bitchiest giallo ever made. Nice to see Arthur Kennedy was a good sport about the Lacoste sponsorship (and if you listen to the English dub,…
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Review by Slig001 ★★★½
Nine Guests for a Crime is a Giallo loosely based on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and shares a lot in common with Mario Bava's Five Dolls for an August Moon (which was also loosely based on Christie's classic story). I never really liked August Moon and I'm pleased to say that this film is a lot better. The film basically follows a bunch of people on an island who eventually end up getting picked off one by one. The first third of the film is basically a soft core porn flick and we watch various characters having affairs with each. It kicks up a gear in the second third, before the plot thickens towards the end and…
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Review by AnonymousAndy ★★★ 9
"Tell your husband he's a huge cuckold, if you don't mind."
Come out to the coast! We'll get together, have some sex on the beach, have a few J&Bs...
A whodunit where you don't care who done it just so long as you get to see everyone stabbed to death and/or burned to a crisp, Nine Guests for a Crime is another serviceable entry in the Forgotten Gialli series and -- as of this writing -- is also the last. It's also yet another whiskey-soaked spin on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, offering up large doses of soap opera drama to fill the spaces between clothes being dropped and throats being slashed.
Like taking a vacation with the most unpleasant…
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Review by Jay H ★★★½
Good giallo from the Vinegar Syndrome Forgotten Gialli Vol 5 set. This one is nice because it kinda plays like Bava’s Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) with a group of attractive people stuck on an island and getting killed off one by one (well, I suppose it’s an homage to Agatha Christie as well ;).
Lots of fun machinations involving an incident in the past but the mystery is the weakest when the viewer reaches the point and knows what’s going on. Still a good ride to see it play out plus amusing to watch all the infidelity between family members.
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Review by The Great Owl ★★★★
A wealthy patriarch, played by Arthur Kennedy, arrives at a remote Mediterranean island with his young wife and his sister, along with his three sons and their wives. The stage is set for a rather unpleasant vacation, because these nine people all bitterly resent one another and make no effort to disguise their extramarital excursions with their in-laws. Unfortunately for these sordid souls, there will be no escape from this setting, because they will soon meet bloody demises, one by one, at the hands of an unknown assailant.
Since the 1977 Italian giallo, Nine Guests for a Crime (Nove ospiti per un delitto), directed by Ferdinando Baldi, is clearly based on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel, And Then There Were None,…
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Review by Corey ★★★
moderately sleazy, hilariously sexy, and comfortably coastal—about the same framework as the rest of these unknown gialli, where the mood is as bubbly as it is frenetic, and the body count piles-on in heaps of nonchalant murder. love the look of this one, and how it doesn’t seem too concerned about how binding it’s mystery is or isn’t—it’s just about the good ol’ vibrations. solid climax, and while the film lacks a deep stain of red and malevolence with finesse, it entertains no less.