The Laughing Woman aka Femina Ridens (1969)
One of the weirdest, wildest, and most gorgeous-looking sleazy movies we’ve ever seen, this very 1969 Italian film will be a good wakeup call for anyone who thinks 50 Shades of Grey kicked off that whole scene.
The film is about a woman (Dagmar Lassander, above) who goes undercover in the lair of a possible serial killer who delights in degrading his victims.
It’s all so sleazy you can’t believe you’re watching it, but then there’s a twist! It’s actually… a romance? The film is very worth watching for set design that evokes the sleek, chic futurism of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, which came out two years later.
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