Jane (Edwige Fenech) is a beautiful but nervy young woman, who is suffering from a recurring nightmare where she sees her mother being murdered. This affects her so much that she seeks help from a psychiatrist at the behest of her sister Mary (who also works for the doctor) During her treatment,she bumps into her new next-door neighbour, Jane, and the two women quickly become friends. Jane decides that she knows just what will cheer Mary up-they will both join the local cult of Devil worshippers!!!

Needless to say,this doesnt have the desired effect and Mary is soon having to deal with drinking dogs blood, discovering that her mother was also a member of the cult, and to cap it off she "murders" Jane at her second meeting, with the same long blade she has been seeing in her dreams.

Her husband Richard(George Hilton) is none too pleased with these shenanigans, and sets about getting to the truth behind these bizarre events.Jane is sent to the country to relax,but when she wakes up in the morning the old couple she is staying with are both found dead in the kitchen. The splendidly evil looking Ivan Rassimov plays the cult leader, and Jorge Rigaud plays the shifty psychiatrist. Hilton, Rassimov, and Rigaud have played the red herring in more giallos than Ive had hot dinners,so needless to say various plot twists and Shifting-of-suspicion ploys are soon brought in to play.

As per usual for a Martino film the cinematography is excellent,the devil worshipbeing scenes filmed in typical seventies fuzzy lensed style which really gives you the impression of Fenechs character spiralling out of control.Bruno Nicolais score is as good as ever(he can even be forgiven for over- using his sitar in some of the films more outlandish scenes!!)

When people discuss giallos,the discussion tends to veer towards Dario Argentos output(probably due to the flashy visuals and the splashy gore),but I feel that Martino is definitely his equal in the plotting department,virtually everyone of his giallos being at least a four star film in my book.

Thoroughly recommended.

Version reviewed-German dvd on the Marketing film label(this dvd DOES contain an English soundtrack) under the title Die Farben Der Nacht