La strana storia di Olga O (1995) The Strange Story of Olga O.avi

By the nineties, the Giallo subgenre had almost completely dried up, and only a handful were released in this time; The Strange Story of Olga O being one of them. The film takes a lot of influence from it´s seventies counterparts, and director Antonio Bonifacio has just about succeeded in making the film work something like a tribute to the earlier films. The Strange Story of Olga O features a number of Giallo staples; things such as a black gloved killer, a razor blade and a black leather-clad biker to name a few; but somehow, the film doesn´t manage to come together as a ´proper´ Giallo. The story was written by Giallo ace Ernesto Gastaldi, and takes influence more from the ´slower´ side of Giallo (films like Short Night of the Glass Dolls and Orgasmo) and features a distressed former dancer at its centre, who as you would expect is called Olga. She is tortured by a dream in which she finds her mother covered in blood and shoots her father in the face. It later transpires that her father committed suicide and Olga blames herself for it. Her past continues to haunt her when she moves back to her old town; and that isn´t the only thing haunting her, as she begins to receive threatening phone calls...