Powerful

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It's a painfully sad but inevitable conclusion to acknowledge that, just like with some great animal species, some of the greatest genres in cinema are threatened with extinction… The Italian Giallo, a sub genre of horror that was immensely popular from the mid-60's until the early 80's, has literally died out and practically every attempt to revive the genre results in sore disappointment. Pierfrancesco Campanella, writer/director of "Bad Inclination" has obviously watched and learned a lot of classic gialli from masters like Sergio Martino, Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. It almost seems like he noted down all the typical and recurring themes and trademarks from the greatest gialli ever made and processed them into his own screenplay. The film features a black-gloved killer with a rather unusual murder weapon, beautiful scantily dressed women getting stabbed to death and convoluted plot twists. So yes, "Bad Inclination" features the ingredients of a genuine giallo, but sadly it ended up being a tasteless and dissatisfying horror stew. The plot is incoherent and ramshackle, most of the acting performances are atrocious (though admittedly I might be influenced by the downright god-awful dubbing) and – worst of all – Campanella doesn't succeed in generating that typical giallo atmosphere of sleaze and morbidity. "Bad Inclination" takes place in a Roman apartment complex full of flamboyant inhabitants. When one of the female tenants is found brutally stabbed to death with a metal set square (!), most of the residents are petrified but a few other ones immediately see it as a unique opportunity to get rid of their own personal problems. Soon after, two more bodies are found massacred with set squares, but the investigating police officer isn't convinced they're looking for just one killer. Since the apartment building homes a formerly successful singer and an ageing artist, the case also received a lot of media attention and puts extra pressure on the police's shoulders. The gimmick of using a set square as a murder weapon is presumably the most ingenious element about the whole film. The murders are gruesomely illustrated, but not really that shocking and they are too few! The nudity, albeit welcome especially when provided by the beautiful Elisabetta Cavallotti, is gratuitous and totally unnecessary. Nevertheless my respect to the director for being able to cast Florinda Bolkan in the role of vicious painter. Bolkan was the star in two of Lucio Fulci's greatest films, "Don't Torture a Duckling" and "Lizard in a Woman's Skin" and also appeared in other highly memorable Italian films like "Flavia: The Heretic", "Footprints on the Moon" and "Last House on the Beach". There's also a small cameo for an even bigger Italian star, namely Franco Nero, but it's totally insignificant and irrelevant to the plot.

I have to say, for once I am glad I came on IMDb and read some comments before I watched a film. After seeing the incredibly low rating on here, I was not expecting much at all from "Bad Inclination." This film is a total must see for giallo fans. I was impressed by the awesome setting and mood that was established right from the get go. Starring Florinda Bolkin of "Lizard in a Woman's Skin," "Bad Inclination" weaves a nice little web of bizarre love and murder mystery, leaving the viewer enchanted and excited to see how it will turn out.While it is not on par with some of the older giallos, this one should not be tossed aside! But I will warn you: the dubbing is HORRENDOUS in this one. It's like they used translation dot com for some of the lines, they make no sense at all. I bet in Italian with subtitles this movie would be a million times better. Ending could have been a bit better though.For fans of Sergio Martino, old Argento and Lucio Fulci.7 out of 10, kids.

Any attempt to re-create a 1970's giallo in 2003 (after the once great Italian exolitation film industry had gone pretty much belly-up) was probably somewhat doomed to failure. This isn't a total failure, however. It is certainly better than the last major attempt to revive the giallo (1996's "Fatal Frames"), and even better than some of Dario Argento's latter-day efforts (it's better than "The Card Player" if worse than "Sleepless" and "Do You Like Hitchcock?"). A sexy young teacher is killed in a high-rise apartment building using an architect's triangle. Not only aren't the other tenants too disturbed by it (as in the deliciously absurd 70's giallo "Case of the Bloody Irises", they even use it as an occasion for practical jokes), but several of them hit on the idea of committing copycat murders--to get rid of black-mailing maids, unfaithful lesbian girlfriends, etc. Naturally, this leaves the police, and the female detective who is the lead investigator, baffled. Unfortunately, it also creates a situation where the viewer knows more than the protagonist and is waiting around impatiently for her to catch up. The movie then tries to make up for this by going in the exact opposite direction with an infuriatingly ambiguous ending. Thus an initially clever plot is decidedly fumbled.The style is OK albeit slavishly copied from earlier, better gialli. The movie does feature some of the old familiar giallo actors including Franco "The Fifth Cord" Nero, Florinda "A Woman in Lizard's Skin" Bolkan, and Eva "Tenebre" Robbins. Bolkan is pretty good as violence-obsessed painter, as is Robbins as a lesbian actress given to walking her cat(!)around on a leash. Nero is more wasted as a former detective turned ranting street preacher/prophet. The biggest problem though is the godawful English dubbing (none of the actors dubs his or her own voice even though Nero at least, is perfectly fluent in English). It's not that gialli have ever been famous for their sophisticated dialogue or naturalistic acting style, but NO movie deserves this kind of sh*tty dubbing job.Intentionally or not, the gory special effects are up to about the 1970's level and seem pretty laughable by today's standards. They do get the nudity level right at least--this is not a tame Hollywood thriller aimed at suburban teenagers where you don't get anything more than under-dressed (and underaged) American TV idols, but neither is it an "erotic thriller" where slow-motion softcore sex scenes by silicone-enhanced "actresses" bring everything to a complete stand-still every five minutes. Not that there's no silicone or surgical enhancement on display--the most attractive actress seen in the altogether here was actually born a man! (See if you can guess which one). This is also not to say that I would necessarily recommend this, especially to non-giallo completists, but it's not THAT bad.

A feeble, terrible try to renew the Italian giallo tradition, this one is one of the worst Italian movies of all time. The plot is really poor, the acting is abysmal, the death scenes are repetitive and not particularly well executed, the sex scenes are cut before they really start. It features a couple of old Italian giallo stars from the Seventies, like Florinda Bolkan (Non si sevizia un paperino, A lizard with woman skin, both by the great Fulci), and Eva Robbins (Dario Argento's Tenebre), also a cameo by Franco Nero (giornata nera per l'ariete, and the immortal character of the spaghetti-western genre, Django). It is not worth your time