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Otherwise known as “The Magician” or “Macchie Solari” (“Sunspots”),
this is a review of the uncut version of the film which clocks in at 100
minutes, as opposed to the 85 minute cut.
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“People have been knocking themselves off like flies.”
Thrust into the boiling hot, blinding white light of the sun – as solar flares
erupt and moans of sexual ecstasy call out – Armando Crispino's giallo gets off
to a fast-paced and violent start. A rash of suicides plague the beautiful city
of Rome as it bakes in the August sun – a woman slits her wrists, a man wraps a
bag over his head before diving into a river, another blows himself up in his
petrol-drenched car, and a father shoots himself to death after slaughtering
his own children.
“It seems sweet to die in August.” There is a
blood-soaked madness spreading through the populace, and the morgue is
jam-packed with mutilated cadavers – but is every single one of these apparent
suicides what they appear to be? Might this be the ideal time for a killer to
strike and hide their devious deeds under the guise of suicide?
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