PimpinAinttEasy The first time I can say that I really liked a Giallo. Barbara Bouchet must be one of the most beautiful women to be shot on screen. Her slow motion lesbian scene with Rosalba Neri to Teo Usuelli's dreamy background score makes this film worth watching. Another lesbian scene under a waterfall was also terrific. The hunting scene where a paranoid Barbara Bouchet runs around like a scared rabbit was well edited. The plot, suspense and resolutions are all quite banal. But the beautiful women, the excellent score and the locales made me like this film. Farley Granger looked quite creepy i guess.(7.5/10)

Darkling_Zeist While I must admit that it is rather a long time since I initially saw 'Amuck' I can still remember it fondly as being a wondrously trashy example of Sapphic exploitation, starring the impossibly alluring, Rosalba Neri & flaxen-haired minx and all -round giailli ubiquity, Barbara Bouchet, both gloriously indulging in a fine slo-mo sequence of unadulterated Eros in this wildly entertaining schlocker from Silvio Amadio. Amongst all the hyper-lurid, crotch-swelling goings on, Amadio still manages to generate some atypical Gothic atmospherics; assisted greatly no doubt by the wonderfully decadent, crumbling Venetian backdrop. And it would be entirely remiss of me if I forgot to mention Teo Usuelli's sublime euro-lounge, sex-funk soundtrack that adds a suitably decadent, and unctuous veneer to the uber-heady goings on! 'Amuck' is an exemplar of sweaty-palmed euro trash.

Jason-98 A twisted tale of control and seduction involving the lovely Greta (Barbara Bouchet) who is hired by a perverted writer Richard with an even more kinky wife, Rosalba. Greta however has a reason for being there as her friend/former lover Sally who happened to be the previous secretary hired and who has disappeared. On the way to discovering what happened to Sally, Greta has various adventures from being drugged and seduced by the bisexual wife in a wonderfully surreal, slow motion scene to almost getting swallowed up by quicksand whilst being "hunted" in the marshes. Interesting movie to say the least.

david melville A tacky low-budget (un)dress rehearsal for Paul Schrader's sublime The Comfort of Strangers. A couple of jaded swingers live in a crumbling Venetian palazzo. Having little else to do, they lure unwary strangers into their web of kinky games. Alas, any comparison with Schrader's masterwork ends with the plot. Amuck! is one of those sad films that constantly threaten to intrigue us, but never quite do.The heroine of this mess is a pert but stupefyingly dull blonde secretary played by Barbara Bouchet. (She looks like a cross between Jerry Hall and Elaine from Ally McBeal.) Hot on the trail of her vanished best friend, she gets a job with that girl's one-time employers. A voyeuristic American writer (Farley Granger) and his bisexual nympho wife (Rosalba Neri).The key to the mystery is gratingly obvious from the start. The direction is flat and the acting is abysmal, apart from Granger. Incredibly, the camerawork in this film makes even Venice look and drab and stale. No mean feat.Amuck! does offer some surprisingly full-on lesbian lovemaking between Neri and Bouchet. Also a porno home-movie version of Little Red Riding Hood - good for a giggle in the right circles. Unless either of these sets your pulse a-racing, this is one Venice movie you should cross a thousand canals...to avoid.David Melville