June 6: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is giallo!

My Letterboxd list of Giallo movies is at 498, so I am running out of movies to watch and ones that are easy to find. Instead of diving into the world of erotic thrillers, I sought out Il Ficcanaso (The Nosy One).

Pippo Franco is usually in comedies, and this is really no different. He plays Luciano Persichetti, a man haunted by a killer known as The Guardian Angel. Well, that name doesn’t really give you an idea of how frightening the masked lunatic is.

After getting phone calls from the killer, a dead body is found in his apartment and the cops think he could be the murderer. Also: Pippo’s character is psychic.

Directed by Bruno Corbucci, the man who brought us Miami Supercops, Aladdin, When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong, La casa stregata, The Cop In Blue Jeans and many more, and written by an entire room of people that included Aldo Florio, Mariano Laurenti, Sergio Martino, Raimondo Vianello, Aldo Grimaldi, Sandro Continenza, Corbucci and Franco, this is a comedy giallo that has way too many characters in it, but the girl that the protagonist is in love with, Susanna Luisetti, is played by Edwige Fenech. She realizes that this movie needs some help and has two nude scenes, adding literally every star in the firmament of heaven to the proceedings.

There’s also a scene where Pippo goes to the theater and watches City of the Living Dead! The bad guy also tries to kill him with a sewing machine, kind of like Goldfinger. For an Italian comedy, it’s actually good. I was surprised by this.

You can watch this on YouTube.