Foxy Lady (1992) User Reviews

Debora Capriglio is truly Voluptuous & Very Sexy in this very low budget Italian offering

[med_1978 · 3/10 · 12 November 2007]

I had seen this movie 10+ years ago. I remembered it essentially for the smouldering sensuality of its female lead Deborah Caprioglio.I recently spotted Spiando Marina on video under it English title Foxy Lady and purchased it. I was not too disappointed as I hadn't remembered the acting or story being that great. Debora was utterly captivating as the seductive beauty who ensnares our hero in her sexual web and he falls madly for her charms. Steve Bond plays a hit-man who is also a disgraced Miami cop who was involved in bribery and suspended, he gives evidence and various criminals go down. In retribution for this his wife and kid are killed and he blames himself and turns to drink. He is sent on a job to kill a man whose identity he does not at first know, once he meets Ms Caproglio and falls for her the targets identity turns out to be her lover a vicious drug dealer. If this story sounds a bit familiar it is, there have been many movies with similar story lines and most were much better than this film. The flashback sequences from the hit-man's past are poorly placed which detracts from the pace and continuity of the current story. The acting is bad from all involved and the direction is not great either. I only recommend this film if you would like to check out Ms Caprioglio and her amazing figure, she is worth it but only if you can get this film very cheap.

I give this 3.5 out of ten only for Ms Caprioglio

erotic sleaze and a table for two

[dopefishie · 3/10 · 7 January 2022]

The "action sequences" are pretty darn bad.

This film is all about the erotic sexy time between the two leads. There is some minor stuff in here about Steve Bond being a hitman and suffering from PTSD and being on a redemption arc. But the film doesn't really find any of that too interesting so it delivers a bunch of sex instead.

Smile of the Fox

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 17 June 2023]

Also known as Foxy Lady and Spiando Marina (Spying Marina), this is a movie about Mark (Steve Bond, Picasso Trigger), a hitman who was once a cop until the death of his wife and son. The only thing that keeps him connected to humanity is his obsession with the sex worker who lives next door, Marina (Debora Caprioglio, who was the star of Tinto Brass' Paprika).

Then she loses a snake in his apartment and ends up in his bed playing with it. I guess that's the kind of meet cute you get in a giallo or an erotic thriller, which this is closer to. And Mark, well, he was a bad cop on the take to organized crime and that's why his wife and child had to die.

Of course, these two escaping their lives is going to be impossible. All they'll ever get are the stolen moments, quick bursts of physical passion and then violence is going to make its way in-between their story.

That said, I wish I could report that this was the same kind of film that Martino effortlessly created back in the 1972. You can blame Steve Bond for being a hangdog void from which no charisma can be unleashed. Perhaps it's the music by Luigi Ceccarelli, which is hilariously from some other movie - or it seems that way - and not what we're currently watching. Or you could blame the script by Martino and Piero Regnoli (who also wrote Voices from Beyond and Demonia for Fulci as well as Malombra, Sword of the Barbarians, Burial Ground and Patrick Still Lives. Or you can perhaps find fault in Martino's skills. Maybe he felt the same way, as he used the name George Raminto for this.

That said, you can't blame Debora Caprioglio. Not to be one of those dudes that leeringly wants to talk to you more about scream queens or Hammer girls, but if you're a lover of women - or can appreciate the female form - she just might convince you that there is a Grand Designer to all of our world. Also: she dated Kalus Kinski when he was in his sixties and she was 18. Also also: In this movie it feels like she's at war with clothes and hates them to the point that she should never be in them.

This was shot by Giancarlo Ferrando, who has endured filming some of the roughest entries in filmdom, including Troll 2, Devil Fish, A Bear Named Arthur (the only movie Martino said that he ever lost money on) and Detective School Dropouts. But you know me. I kind of love all of those movies.

Hot and sexy

[Paynebyname · 7/10 · 19 January 2006]

Deborah Caprioglio is one sexy mumma but some of her other films like Paprika were a little tongue in cheek with any pretence of a sexy scene killed off by intrusive cheesy music.

I first saw this film about 12 years and it remained in my mind for a long time due to it's unbelievably sexy content both in the style (voyeuristic elements) and the raw sexual attraction of the lead ie Deborah.

It's a softcore production but I prefer these. More emphasis is placed on generating an erotic tone and the naturally voluptuous figure of Ms Caprioglio just smolders through the screen.

The DVD is only in Italian, which I don't speak, so I can't comment on the story but it's a well made production and definitely worth buying if you are a fan of Deborah.

A good low-budget movie

[glevedacier · 7/10 · 10 August 2017]

It was the first time I watched this film. I can understand it left a mark on people due to the feeling of intensity the directing manages to build in the film. Steve Bond (or Shlomo Goldberg) seems convincing enough to me, amid the cheap light and image quality, as the camera work is not so rarely vivid and powerful. The sensuality switches from heat and cold, embracing both evenly deeply. The actress shines with that fragile and perverse innocence, dear to the 80s and 90s that failed to survive the rise of the macho heroin, whose sensuality is expressed into male features like combat abilities, rather than through her femininity. That femininity she expresses feels like a caress on the cheek. This kind of movies produced during that generation, despite their quality, seem to have kept their ability to portray feelings with a depth that can be as unsettling as it is charming. This Z-series movie is one of those kinds you'll remember.