Tango 2001 (1973) User Reviews

Crazy foreign flick

[Skint111 · 6/10 · 4 March 2004]

This is essentially an old-fashioned, Tales Of The Unexpected type drama made a little bit special by the way its done, ie quite seedy, gaudy looking, fairly kinky. It is very Seventiesish and very continental, with all of the leading actresses disrobing at some point or other. The film's strange twists are all quite enjoyable in a weird sort of way, especially the last two. It's the sort of film which will never be made again, and it's worth tracking down, although that could be quite a task. It received a limited video release many years ago and would surely now be ripe for a DVD rerelease. A film with a title as great as this one's certainly deserves some attention.

Naughty

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 17 June 2020]

As I started watching this movie, I thought, "This is the exact kind of movie Mondo Macabro would put out." Which makes sense, because it was volume one in their Greek Collection.

The Tango Club is where the swinging characters of this movie spend their tome. There's Rosita (Dorothy Moore, who is one other movie, another Greek giallo Death Kiss), who uses drugs and her womanly wiles to get Joanna (Erika Raffael, Four Dimensions of Greta) into bed. Stathis (Lakis Komninos, using the boring Western name Larry Daniels) reacts to this as no man before or since has. He flips out and beats both of them, killing Rosita. Things are just starting, trust me.

Meanwhile, rich voyeur Joachim is filming the killer while he brings home other women from the club. And then there's Joachim, who was impotent until he discovered the dead body of Rosita and now, he's in love.

We covered Dangerous Cargo, another Kostas Karagiannis movie, a few weeks ago. Needless to say, this movie makes that one look tame by comparison. Drugs, fuzzy psychedelic music, rampant nudity, sex, murder, gratuitous dance numbers and all manner of perversion, including romantic fantasies between the living and the dead abound. Yep, this one has something for every member of the family.

'Tango of Perversion' finally proved to be a giddy foray into murderous, Mediterranean-set decadence!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 9/10 · 23 January 2014]

An absolutely atypical example of exhilarating, Jess-Franco-esque titillation from sun- splashed Greece. Able Director, Kostas Karagiannis doesn't appear to be a sleazoid neophyte, as he corals his feisty, and not to mention nubile cast with great aplomb, and gets on with the sordid matters at hand with admirable alacrity! This especially lurid narrative concerns the exploitative, and overtly libidinous orbits of one especially Greek male animal, Stathis; a tall, handsome, and brooding manipulator, who finds little trouble oozing his way into the innumerable confines of many a young ladies undergarments, and yet sharing the similarly frustrating fate of many a conniving, psychologically shallow Lothario, he also seems emotionally unable to keep hold of these most beauteous of fleshly gifts, having been only temporarily bestowed upon him by his prosaic erotic, game-play! This wonderfully pulpy tale of arch, self-serving sexual machinations is handled well by, Karagiannis, and I found myself wholly absorbed, not only by the splendorous generosity of exposed nubile flesh, but by the fascinating perversity of these uncommonly seedy, amoral characters, all of whom spiral inexorably into a gloriously angst-laden, Giallo-esque vortex of fervid sex and hysterical, bloody violence! I must admit that my initial, pre-viewing interest was somewhat perfunctory, but merest seconds into the preternaturally funky, hep-cat title sequence my initial fears were demonstratively allayed, as the triumphantly titillating, sordidly satisfying,'Tango of Perversion' finally proved to be a giddy foray into murderous, Mediterranean-set decadence!

Bit predictable but good fun

[christopher-underwood · 8/10 · 31 March 2014]

Very watchable, although I was slightly confused at first, as my copy was seemingly Greek with English subtitles but everyone was speaking Spanish. It turns out this must be a Spanish dub because it is certainly Greek. Very much borderline giallo, it is nevertheless, fast moving and most colourful with some wonderful costumes. Lakis Komninos is fine as the lead rogue and the girls are good, in and out of their costumes, just the supposed hero, played by Vagelis Voulgaridis who plays it just too pathetically, for my taste. Excellent soundtrack, sex and death (not always in that order), some fun dance sequences (didn't notice any 'tango' though) and drugs and voyeurism a plenty. Bit predictable but good fun all the same.