Bava does his damndest to make this murder mystery fun and flashy. He almost succeeds but at a certain point the off-screen murders take on a tedious feeling of wash-rinse-repeat. The who-done-it aspect just isn’t interesting enough to keep the viewer fully engaged as all the suspects have the same motive.
There are some enjoyable elements to the film, such as the trashy soap opera tropes involving greed, infidelity, scheming, and backstabbing; literally and figuratively. Bava’s twisted sense of humor…
