The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 17, 1977, Page Page 16, Image 16
'Autopsy'
not worth
Kv TOM "Kl?" ('KVI)K
( iiini'cock Staff Writer
"Autopsy." rated II (possibly lor
ridiculous) is an Italian lilm,
dubbed in Knj lisli vc y poorly; at
one point the n .id priest says "no"
without even opening his n.outh).
Tin' liliii features such in
'( ('national stars as Minisy I*ari!
ft a'xi I'.any Primero, and is
di( < ?*'vd by somebody named
Armando (rispino.
'1 be opening cuts revolve around
I llC I III I ll< < ?1 SlllCIUe. A lllilll DIOWS
Limscll up, another puts a baggie
ivcr I lis head and jumps into a
river, a nude girl slits her wrists,
and a i an shoots himself in I ho
lies i Willi a sill) machine gun after
1 e !.as w iped out his entire family.
'11 e .iction then moves to the
n.eigne "here an obese nude
female. slabbed several limes, is
beinn earted into a room lull of
stiffs 'including the actors) being
dissected and played with by a
crew <>l :i aniacal county coroners.
Till ACTION I OM SES (.11
Sini'tua. ;i young blonde on in'ership
down al "slab <. iIy"
:-tudyirg u?";desand trying to find
lit vliat motivates one lo Kill
"iiosoll Her main problem is
'inding a dead person willing lo he
ii.'.^rviewcd.
Ob\i??usly lhe action is loo in
lense for Simona. ,i.> six* looks at
the corpses and imagines them
coming after her.
In ;i clever interchange between
doctor and intern, slit is told, "You
'.ught lo go holm , yt u look dead on
\our feet." One sex n.aniac
disguised ;is ; mortician attempts
'o seduce her with he romantic
line; "Hry, I wains Wave me cold.
Iiow'd\a like some arm i out?"
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I>ater on in the film, he tries to rape
her, and she stabs him many,
many times with a fork to which he
responds, "Don't worry, I'll never
do that again!"
The main plot rambles around a
redhead from Pennsylvania < it
was hysterical when her voice said
"I'm from Pennsylvania," and her
lips said "Gobble-dee, n.ungamacaroni!")
whose apparent
suicide has Simona, her boyfriend
and the redhead's brother <lhe
mad priest) baffled.
tiif, hi:i..\tio\siiii> that
DKVKl-Ol'S between Simona and
hor hovfripnri is intnrrslinf* H<> is
a photographer, and every lime we
see him in action, lie is in I he same
spot on lop of I he same building.
According lo him, il lakes more
patience to photograph stone than
corpses, but " hey both hold still
for you, that's for sure! '
Every time they come close lo
making love, Simona envisions a
cadaver on top of her and stops the
action. The boyfriend's thoughts
on the matter: "Boy! I didn't
know things were this messed up!"
As the story tries to develop, we
are confused by apparent suicide
after apparent suicide, and the
emerging of several ridiculous and
meaningless characters. Kvery
lime Simona is alone, I he director
tries to scare us with silly
background music, which consists
of moaning women. It is ineffective,
and the viewer knows
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"Autopsy" is a farce. It does not
build to a climax; rather, it falls
like a wet noodle.
Pnrhnnc (tin l\nel tiMitr I onm
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marize "Autopsy" is to quote the
taxi driver as he dropped a frenetic
Simona at her apartment. "Hey
lady, you forgot your change! Hoy,
snmo nonnlp nu?ht;i l;ikn ;in :im.
bulance, not a taxi!!" This film
should have been taken by am
bulance directly to the movie
morgue and deposited.
"Al'TOPSY" KKI'KKSKNTS a
slice of life which is definitely not.
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a seemingly endless line of "underground"
films which exploit
violence and sex. To pay money lo
see a film like "Autopsy" would he
a grave mistake. It's not even good
I rash!
Perhaps the highlight of the show
was "Half-Empty Saddles," ;i
Woody Woodpecker cartoon which
preceeded . "Autopsy." Set in
Forsaken, Arizona, (he plot involves
Woody locating some loot
and being accosted by a huge
bearded thug, reminiscent of
Brutus from ihe old 1'opeye cartoons.
For about five minutes Woody
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uiu|ja iv.i ge iicuv^ iiujciu* mi iiic
bad guy's feet and head, and
ultimately dupes him into riding
out of town on a wooden horse. The
plot of the cartoon was simple, and
was carried out quite nicely.
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