Psychotic Saturdays! Six Flicks That Are Crazy In Translation

It is Psychotic Saturdays! Saturday, a perfect time to celebrate the crazy. And crazy has no borders. It is everywhere, in all lands and all peoples. Crazy in any language is still crazy. Here are six foreign films that bring the psycho to life so much so that they gained American cult attention.











1. What Have You Done To Solange? /Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (1972)

A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students takes her out on a boat. They see a knife killing on shore. Other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, and the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them. Directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring
Fabio Testi, Cristina Galbó and Karin Baal.












2.  Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero/ The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (1974)

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother. Directed by Francesco Barilli and starring  Mimsy Farmer, Maurizio Bonuglia and Aldo Valletti.













3. In A Glass Cage/ Tras El Cristal (1987)

 In Spain, the former Nazi doctor Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping off the roof of his manor. However, he survives with the entire body paralyzed and dependable of an iron lung with glass sides. His wife Griselda decides to hire a nurse since she does not bear the situation. Klaus asks Griselda to hire Angelo, a mysterious teenager that appears in their house. Angelo befriends Klaus' daughter Rena and sooner it is shown that Klaus was a pedophile that loved to feel the fear of death in young boys before abusing and killing them. Further, Angelo is a disturbed and totally insane victim of his experiments that intends to follow the insanities described in Klaus' diary and incorporate his personality. Directed by Agusti Villarogna and starring Günter Meisner, David Sust and Marisa Paredes.




4. Tenebre (1982)

 With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable. Directed by Dario Argento and starring Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma and Christian Borromeo.










5. La Polizia Chiede Aiuto (1974)

 Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.Directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli and Mario Adorf.













6. The Psychic/ Sette Note In Nero (1977)

 A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may share the victim's fate. Directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti and Marc Porel.











Now this is six truly twisted flix from dark minds abroad. Enjoy the crazy and revel in the psychotic. Crazy is as crazy speaks no matter what the language or where it is bread. The mental and disturbed is truly translatable and all encompassing. Have a great Psychotic Saturdays! Saturday!