The greatest movie ever made..!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer...We should note that other than the lack of Frank Wolff, this film very much has the same cast as "Death Walks on High Heels". In fact, this was the third collaboration between director Luciano Ercoli and legendary screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi. This makes the similar title appropriate, and even more appropriate still that Arrow Video has decided to bundle the films together."Midnight" draws inspiration from Mario Bava's "Girl Who Knew Too Much" (and both would be precursors to John Carpenter's under-appreciated "Eyes of Laura Mars"). Another scene is clearly an homage to Hitchcock's "Rear Window". Tim Lucas points out that this further makes the case for Ercoli being the Italian Brian DePalma, as DePalma is seen by many as the American successor to Hitchcock.Lucas notes that the film unusually "visually conservative" for a giallo, due very much to Ercoli's preference for script over image. Lucas calls him a "carpenter" in his approach. Indeed, it is interesting to see how Ercoli works compared to, say, Dario Argento, who filled every inch with color. Ercoli, who was above all else concerned with producing, keeps it all very simple, very sparse. this is not to say he is without the clever shot here and there, but it is not the visual feast we might expect.Stuart Galbraith has written that Midnight has "a stronger, less-predictable screenplay and a bit more visual flair" than its companion film, High Heels. I would say he is spot on with this assessment. Although both are great films, and High Heels probably has the better killer and soundtrack, Midnight seems to be overall the stronger of the two and has more complex characters.Arrow Video has blessed the genre community yet again with their Death Walks twice set. As noted in my separate review, "Death Walks on High Heels" is packed with extras, and so is this one! Another very informative Tim Lucas audio commentary really sells it for me, but we also have a brand new interview in which Gastaldi discusses "Death Walks at Midnight" and a career script-writing crime films. Oh, and a visual essay by Michael Mackenzie exploring the distinctive giallo collaborations between director Luciano Ercoli and star Nieves Navarro. Amazing!

This could very well be classified as one of the slowest moving supposed to be good gialli ever made. It is missing most of the essentials of a giallo. Crazy black gloved killer, sex and, or lots of nudity and violence, or at least some 70s psychedelic action and weirdness. It does have an OK plot line, a few good bloody scenes and great music from Gianni Ferrio. Still reminds me of a more modern Sherlock Holmes episode and even has a few comedic elements which is not what I look for in a giallo. The basic plot is about Valentina (Susan Scott) who is stalked by a killer after he finds out that she witnessed a murder while on an experimental drug. The actors/actresses in this movie are boring, the fight scenes are boring, the killings are boring and Valentinas (Susan Scott) attitude during the whole movie is very annoying as she has a very smart mouth and seems to have a bad attitude towards men in general. You just can't help but hope she will be the killers next victim and I was happy to see her get smacked around a little in one scene. It took me two times of trying to watch this movie to finally finish it. The movie is still worth having in your collection if you are a gialli collector and Noshame released a great DVD of it and Death Walks in High Heels which came with a 3rd disc titled THE SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH with music from the great STELVIO CIPRIANI. You should get it if you see it but don't spend too much time and money on it as you will be a bit disappointed if you do.

It would seem that many fans don't consider 'Death Walks at Midnight' to be a good film, and while it's not a first class addition to the Giallo sub-genre; I rather liked it. The film is far less graphic than many Giallo fans will be used to, and there aren't many murders. The first and central murder leads you to believe that this film will feature more bloodshed as the film goes on; but the plot veers off-course often, and the film doesn't always focus on the murder themed plot. The first murder is so striking largely because of the murder weapon used; I've never seen a spiked glove before, and the murder scene is stylishly shot and gives the odd murder weapon a good environment to operate in. The plot is co-scripted by two prominent forces in Italian films; Sergio Corbucci ('Django') and more importantly, Ernesto Gastaldi who has a number of important Giallo classics under his belt, most notably Sergio Martino films such as Your Vice and The Case of the Scorpion's Tail. It follows a woman who tries out an experimental drug and while under its influence, witnesses the aforementioned graphic murder.The plot seems like an all too obvious excuse for a different perspective on the common Giallo theme of someone witnessing a murder, and as it isn't given explanation; it doesn't come off as being very credible. Director Luciano Ercoli makes up for this, however, with a constant stream of odd events and a good eye for striking cinematography, and although the plot soon becomes convoluted and often relies on coincidence; it's always engaging, and there's a lot of good ideas on display. The beautiful Susan Scott (a.k.a. Nieves Navarro), who has worked with Ercoli on films such as Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion and Death Walks on High Heels, heads an interesting cast, and does a good job of holding the film together. The fact that we know who the murderer is from the beginning ensures that there isn't a lot of mystery, but this is made up for by the way that there's always something new lurking just around the corner, and the script does a good job of implementing red herrings into the plot. The final twist can be seen coming a mile off; but the rooftop finale is a treat, and overall I've got to say that there's a lot to like about this not often seen Giallo.

A fashion model agrees to do a shoot in her swank apartment building while high on a powerful new psychedelic drug called "HDS" (why this would make for an interesting fashion shoot is never really adequately explained). While under the influence of the drug she witnesses a brutal murder in an adjoining building. Obviously, the beginning of this film is very similar to "Rear Window" (if you replace a crippled Jimmy Stewart with a sexy Spanish model hopped up on mind-bending drugs that is), but then the film goes off in its own totally unique direction. Even more than your usual giallo this film is pretty much a series of hysterical chase scenes and gory murders with little coherent plot to get in the way.It's not really that good, but it has several things going for it. The first is Nieves Navarro (aka Susan Scott). Navarro was generally considered to be a second-rate Edwige Fenech (and she actually appeared as Fenech's sister in "All the Colors of Darkness"). She actually makes for a spunky, appealing heroine here, spending most of her time fighting off various loutish males including two sexist boyfriends, a guy who picks her up hitch-hiking and demands sex five minutes later, and FOUR different murderous male villains. Strangely though, she keeps her clothes on throughout the film (this is the same actress who in her late 30's was making borderline-hardcore sex films for the notorious Joe D'Amato). The movie also features a very unique murder weapon--a giant spiked metal glove (or "armored fist" as Navarro keeps calling it)which makes mince-meat of the faces of the various female victims (like many gialli this film is a strange mixture of feminism and misogyny). Finally, there is the upbeat score which probably should be in a better movie, but does serve to keep things rolling along. I wouldn't go through the expense and trouble of buying the imported British DVD (like I did), but I guess this is worth watching if you get a chance.