MILANO ODIA: LA POLIZIA NON PUÒ SPARARE
(“Milan Hate: The Police Can’t Shoot”)
Production: Italy, 1974
Director: Umberto Lenzi
US release title: Almost Human
Category: Crime/Violence
Lenzi’s renegade cop (Henry Silva) vs sadistic rapist (Tomas Milian) onslaught comes on the back of Fernando Di Leo’s explosive Milano Calibro 9. It’s not quite as good, but still packs a visceral punch lacking in most Hollywood product of the time. Stand-out scenes include child murder by machine-gun, extended torture, and an enforced homosexual blow-job. In the US it was misleadingly promoted by Joseph Brenner, with a poster featuring horror film iconography. With a brilliant score by Ennio Morricone, Milano Odia was the first in a bone-crunching polizioteschi spree of city-based narratives by Lenzi which continued with the likes of Roma A Mano Armata and Napoli Violenta.
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