FilmRPsychological Slasher

Autopsy1975

Name: Autopsy
Genre: Psychological, Slasher
Released: 1975-01-18
Rating: 5.9

“It'll take you... apart!”

Directed by Armando Crispino

5.9

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IMDb 5.8TMDB 6.0

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Year

1975

Runtime

100 min

The premise

A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another supposed suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.

Horror Vault's take

In sun-scorched Rome, a young pathologist becomes dangerously fixated on a rash of deaths officially dismissed as heat-induced suicides — a fixation that turns deeply personal when someone close to her father turns up dead under suspiciously similar circumstances. Partnering with a grief-driven priest, she digs beneath the clinical surface of her work to expose what she believes is a calculated killer hiding in plain sight. This Italian giallo-tinged thriller blurs the line between professional detachment and personal peril as Simona edges ever closer to a killer who may already know she's looking. Stylish and slow-burning, it's a product of 1970s European genre filmmaking at its most atmospheric.

Content: Graphic Depictions Of Corpses And Autopsy Procedures, Violent Death Scenes, Sexual Content, Disturbing Imagery