Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) is a Dario Argento giallo you can watch online on iFILM. Roberto Tobias, a rock drummer, keeps catching the same stranger trailing him through Rome.

One night Roberto corners the man, and the scuffle ends with a knife and a dead body. A masked figure photographs the whole thing. From then on someone picks off his friends one by one and plants evidence pointing straight at him. The cops shrug, the paranoia mounts, and the only clue is a faint image burned onto a victim's retina. Michael Brandon plays the rattled drummer, with Mimsy Farmer and a rare straight turn from Bud Spencer.

This was the film that closed Argento's so-called Animal Trilogy, following The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and The Cat o' Nine Tails. Ennio Morricone supplied the score, and the gimmick about a killer's face imprinted on a dead eye is pure 1971 junk science, played with a totally straight face. If you like your thrillers Italian, stylish and a little unhinged, this one delivers. Stream Four Flies on Grey Velvet online on iFILM.