Pop art explodes in an orgy of gaslighting, funkadelic disco sounds and unfortunate body suits in Romolo Guerrieri's 1968 treat The Sweet Body of Deborah/Il dolce corpo di Deborah.

CW: gendered violence, suicide, gaslighting.

Copyright © 2021 David Thomas and Jon Dear

Availability on disc and streaming: Blu-ray.com
(the various German blu-ray releases contain the Italian track with English subtitles but no English dub)

More information:
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films: Volume 1 1963-1973 by Troy Howarth

La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

Italian Horrors: Cannibals, Zombies, Strange Vices and Guilty Pleasures! edited by Allan Bryce

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