When I stumbled upon the 1982 Italian horror mystery movie "Assassinio Al Cimitero Etrusco" (aka "The Scorpion With Two Tails") by random chance here in 2024, I opted to watch it since it was a movie that I hadn't ever heard about, much less actually seen.
Writers Ernesto Gastaldi, Dardano Sacchetti, Mara Maryl and Jacques Leitienne put together a script and storyline that failed to properly entertain me.
The only face on the screen that I was familiar with was actor John Saxon, but he was hardly in the movie at all. The acting performances in the movie were fair, despite the fact that the script was a dumpster fire.
Unfortunately I had the misfortune to sit through an English dubbed version of the movie, which wasn't by choice. I don't enjoy dubbed movies, as I prefer to experience movies in their original language. But I opted to sit through this movie, despite it being dubbed.
I found it quite a struggle to sit through this movie, because it was so insanely slow paced and there wasn't much of anything particularly thrilling or entertaining happening as the movie trotted on and on. Truth be told, I tossed the towel in the ring 63 minutes into the 98 minute runtime, by then I was just bored senseless. And this is not a movie that I will be returning to finish watching, because I just simply didn't care about the characters and found very little entertainment in the storyline.
My rating of director Sergio Martino's 1982 movie "Assassinio Al Cimitero Etrusco" lands on generous a three out of ten stars.
Writers Ernesto Gastaldi, Dardano Sacchetti, Mara Maryl and Jacques Leitienne put together a script and storyline that failed to properly entertain me.
The only face on the screen that I was familiar with was actor John Saxon, but he was hardly in the movie at all. The acting performances in the movie were fair, despite the fact that the script was a dumpster fire.
Unfortunately I had the misfortune to sit through an English dubbed version of the movie, which wasn't by choice. I don't enjoy dubbed movies, as I prefer to experience movies in their original language. But I opted to sit through this movie, despite it being dubbed.
I found it quite a struggle to sit through this movie, because it was so insanely slow paced and there wasn't much of anything particularly thrilling or entertaining happening as the movie trotted on and on. Truth be told, I tossed the towel in the ring 63 minutes into the 98 minute runtime, by then I was just bored senseless. And this is not a movie that I will be returning to finish watching, because I just simply didn't care about the characters and found very little entertainment in the storyline.
My rating of director Sergio Martino's 1982 movie "Assassinio Al Cimitero Etrusco" lands on generous a three out of ten stars.