The Dark Side of Love (1985)
Director: Salvatore Samperi
Where to get it: CAV
Patrizia hides a very dark secret – her brother Emilio is secretly in love with her. At first she just tries to play with him, confessing her love stories with other men, but fate has other plans for the doomed and incestuous would be lovers…
And we have a weird and erotic film on our hands here with this one, folks! A weird sexual game is played between a brother and a sister from nearly the start of this one. Things begin to grow and grow until we have a full blown flowers in the attic type situation on our hands. And it’s all very erotic and very weird. I guess the best way to put it is it is all very Italian. If you have seen some of the more sexual based Italian movies you’ll know what you are getting yourself into with this one.
I still must mention that the plot is really held together by the performances of our brother and sister duo. As things go from a game to jealous and so on and so forth we really can’t help but notice the good acting that goes into it all. We even have brief moments of this weird jealously taking a very odd and violent turn. These types if films will never be for the masses. Yet they still have their place in cinema and DVD. That being said, I think people who really enjoy these movies will like this one overall. People who don’t dig these as much might just be left feeling uncomfortable.
(6/10)
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