And YES, I saw those terrible "Schizoid" posters when i was Googling poster art for this piece. It makes it look so much like it's all about killer bats! Audiences must have been so disappointed. I only remember when the film was released as "Lizard"...I wonder when and in what markets it became "Schizoid" (It's like how I can only remember that Julie Andrews disaster "Star!" when it came out; i don't recall when they released it as "Those Were the Happy Times"- terrible title!) Since posting this I've seen clips of Florinda Bolkan here and there, and she really is a stunning-looking woman. Such an interesting face that camera seems to love. I think your comparing her to Laura Antonelli (who seemed to be in everything when I was growing up, always as an object of desire) is very apt. Klein MC, Gorb SN. Epidermis architecture and material properties of the skin of four snake species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2012; 9:3140-3155

It's gory, it's thrilling, it's creepy and it's moody. It absolutely captures the early 70's psychedelic 'thing' without being cheesy. It's basically a psychological study of a woman who seems deeply troubled but, then again, may just be delusional. Until the end, we really have no idea which is the case, but when we find out, we're surprised. The plot is genius. Zangerl R. The turtle shell. In: Gans C, Bellairs DA, Parsons TA, editors. Biology of the Reptilia, Morphology A. Vol. 1. London: Academic Press; 1969. pp. 311-340I wanted to say that A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin arrived. I watched. I loved. I think it’s probably Fulci’s best film. While even something such as Zombie has its outlandishly enjoyable moments, Fulci has a greater consideration in Lizard of color and composition, with a couple of really terrific set pieces. Plus, his customary zoom shots also seem to serve a greater purpose here. Dr. Lucio Fulci's Day for Night (32:10, HD) – This rare video interview with Fulci (conducted sometime before his death in 1996) was conducted/directed by Antonietta De Lillo. The maestro, who is seated in a wheelchair, but still quite lively, talks and talks and talks about his childhood, his education, his musical talents, his early films, and his success in spaghetti westerns, gialli, and, of course, horror films. There are some brief clips included as well, though they are artfully projected against a wall in pink monochrome for some reason. Although "Le orme" (Footsteps) is not really a giallo, it is a rare gem, with great cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.

On the surface, Fulci’s pathologizing of his female protagonist is nothing groundbreaking; gialli remain notorious for putting women through the ringer, fetishizing the female form along with the violence so often perpetrated against it. However, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin is notable in how it subverts these themes while also indulging in them; it’s self-aware of men’s fear of autonomous female desire and imbues the male characters’ limited perspectives of Carol with irony. Maybe it’s because of this that Fulci’s film still holds up so well over 50 years after its release, operating under the genre’s twisty whodunnit structure to reflect different levels of queer shame and angst. Snakes are carnivorous reptiles with highly mobile jaws, which enable them to swallow prey much larger than they are. They are legless (some species retain a pelvic girdle) and have an elongated body, this means that paired organs appear one in front of other and they only have one functional lung. Some species have venom, used primarily to kill prey. Their skin is covered in scales and snakes are not slimy [ 2]. Lizards are quadrupedal squamates, except some legless, snake-like-bodied species. Often, they are territorial and have many antipredator strategies, such as camouflage, venom, reflex bleeding, and the ability to destroy and then regenerate their tails after destruction. They are covered in overlapping keratin scales, enabling them to live in the driest deserts on the earth [ 3, 4]. Carol Hammond is having bizarre recurring dreams which she is going to a psychiatrist to find the meaning of. In her subsequent later dreams she finds herself killing her promiscuous nubile neighbor.when the aforementioned neighbor is then found murdered in real life with Carol's penknife found at the scene she becomes a prime suspect. Shriek Show dropped the ball with this one somewhat. With the shorter American "Schizord" version getting a better transfer, while the original Italian version is relegated to the second disc. It doesn't look as good and is in full-screen. It's great to own this at all, but I was somewhat disheartened. That being said, this is one of Fulci's best, if somewhat dated, Giallos It keeps you guessing, and is never boring. Yet another early 70's giallo with one of those cryptic zoophilic titles. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin is a very fine example of this most Italian of exploitation sub-genres and is possibly the best film that Lucio Fulci ever made. It’s no secret that in the 2020s, increased visibility of the LGBTQ+ community coupled with widespread right-wing radicalization and partisan wedge issues have yielded rampant re-stigmatization of queer and trans people in both the U.S. and U.K. Maybe it’s because of this that the first two acts of Fulci’s film still feel so fresh. Oddly enough however, the film’s late invalidation of her victimhood doesn’t negate these truths so much as it shines light on other, simultaneous ones. The men ’s patronizing view of Carol as a delicate damsel is its own issue, but it also speaks to a greater social tendency to automatically and insidiously grant white women the illusion of innocence—something the script (from Fulci, Josè Luis Martinez Molla, Andrè Tranchè and Roberto Gianviti) deviously subverts.

It then turns out that Julia has been murdered. Inspector Corvin (Stanley Baker) is in charge of this investigation. Carol is freaked out by the news, as the evidence points to her dream and her being the prime suspect. There's a lot more to this story that will draw everyone in as some people have things to hide and it begs the question, who did kill Julia?