Professor Riccardo Rossi (Donald O'Brien), a staunch opposer of divorce, comes home to find his sexy wife Elisa (Malisa Longo) in the sack with her lover (who hot-foots it away before he can shoot them). Since he doesn't agree with legal separation, the prof drugs his adulterous wife instead, sticks her in a sack, and dumps her body in a lake (divorce bad, murder OK!).
Now footloose and fancy-free, Riccardo hooks up with hot hooker Eva (Erika Blanc) and even makes a successful pass at his attractive niece Barbara (Maria D'Incoronato), but finds himself plagued by visions of his dead wife, menaced by a bearded stranger in a car, and threatened by mysterious phone calls. Is he being haunted by Elisa, or is his wife somehow still alive and seeking revenge?
After the initial murder, Erotic Games of a Respectable Family loses a lot of its momentum, Prof Rossi's visions becoming rather repetitive and tedious, but director Francesco Degli Espinosa sees fit to include a reasonable amount of nudity from his lovely actresses, and makes perseverance worthwhile with a wonderfully bonkers ending, which features several preposterous twists in quick succession, leaving the film on a high. It's all incredibly silly, but one has to admire the sheer audacity of the final act.
6/10.
Now footloose and fancy-free, Riccardo hooks up with hot hooker Eva (Erika Blanc) and even makes a successful pass at his attractive niece Barbara (Maria D'Incoronato), but finds himself plagued by visions of his dead wife, menaced by a bearded stranger in a car, and threatened by mysterious phone calls. Is he being haunted by Elisa, or is his wife somehow still alive and seeking revenge?
After the initial murder, Erotic Games of a Respectable Family loses a lot of its momentum, Prof Rossi's visions becoming rather repetitive and tedious, but director Francesco Degli Espinosa sees fit to include a reasonable amount of nudity from his lovely actresses, and makes perseverance worthwhile with a wonderfully bonkers ending, which features several preposterous twists in quick succession, leaving the film on a high. It's all incredibly silly, but one has to admire the sheer audacity of the final act.
6/10.