La Gabbia (The Trap) is based on a story called L'Occhio, which was written by filmmaker Francesco Barilli (The Perfume of the Lady In Black, Hotel Fear), who was trying to direct the movie himself. He couldn't get producers to pay for the film unless Shelley Winters was in the lead. He sold the idea to Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, who also made Identikit.
The screenplay was written by Concha Hombria, Roberto Leoni and Alberto Silvestri, along with Lucio Fulci, who didn't direct as he was coming back from hepatitis.
Barilli is quoted in Troy Howarth's Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films as saying, "Lets' talk frankly here, that movie sucks..." Fulci used profanity when asked about Griffi, who he felt stole his chance to direct this movie. He ended up directing The Devil's Honey, which is pretty much what this movie could have been.
That said, this does have an Ennio Morricone score, so that helps.
Michael Parker (Tony Musante) is an American in Italy who is dating Hélène (Florinda Bolkan). 15 years ago, he dated Marie (Laura Antonelli), who has finally found him again. Amazingly, she's his girlfriend's landlady. What are the chances? He thinks they can just have a quick affair, but she won't let him go. In fact, she puts him in a cage. And to make things even weirder, her daughter Jacqueline (Blanca Marsillach) soon falls in love with him.
When Hélène returns, she can no longer find him. She's used to him wandering from woman to woman, but he always comes back. As for Marie, Michael once taught her the ways of love and then left. She never found a man who satisfied her in the same way and now, she refuses to even let him go to the bathroom outside of her sight. Also: Jacqueline could be his daughter.
Made in the brief time before giallo would become the erotic thriller, this has Michael being held so close to his girlfriend, finally paying for his years of seducing women and leaving them alone. Of course, I would rather have seen what Fulci had done with this movie. Or Barilli, come to think of it.
The screenplay was written by Concha Hombria, Roberto Leoni and Alberto Silvestri, along with Lucio Fulci, who didn't direct as he was coming back from hepatitis.
Barilli is quoted in Troy Howarth's Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films as saying, "Lets' talk frankly here, that movie sucks..." Fulci used profanity when asked about Griffi, who he felt stole his chance to direct this movie. He ended up directing The Devil's Honey, which is pretty much what this movie could have been.
That said, this does have an Ennio Morricone score, so that helps.
Michael Parker (Tony Musante) is an American in Italy who is dating Hélène (Florinda Bolkan). 15 years ago, he dated Marie (Laura Antonelli), who has finally found him again. Amazingly, she's his girlfriend's landlady. What are the chances? He thinks they can just have a quick affair, but she won't let him go. In fact, she puts him in a cage. And to make things even weirder, her daughter Jacqueline (Blanca Marsillach) soon falls in love with him.
When Hélène returns, she can no longer find him. She's used to him wandering from woman to woman, but he always comes back. As for Marie, Michael once taught her the ways of love and then left. She never found a man who satisfied her in the same way and now, she refuses to even let him go to the bathroom outside of her sight. Also: Jacqueline could be his daughter.
Made in the brief time before giallo would become the erotic thriller, this has Michael being held so close to his girlfriend, finally paying for his years of seducing women and leaving them alone. Of course, I would rather have seen what Fulci had done with this movie. Or Barilli, come to think of it.