Formula for a Murder

Formula for a Murder (Italian: 7. Hyden Park - La casa maledetta/ translation: Seven Hyde Park - The Cursed House) is a 1985 Italian giallo-horror film written and directed by Alberto De Martino (here credited as Martin Herbert).[1][2][3] It starred David Warbeck and Rossano Brazzi. It is one of the only films in which Warbeck played a villain.[4]

Formula for a Murder
Directed byAlberto De Martino
Written byAlberto De Martino
Vincenzo Mannino
Produced byFabrizio De Angelis (as David Colby)
StarringDavid Warbeck
Rossano Brazzi
Christina Nagy
Carroll Blumenberg
CinematographyGianlorenzo Battaglia
Edited byVincenzo Tomassi
Music byFrancesco De Masi
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A handsome teacher named Craig (David Warbeck) marries a wealthy traumatized, wheelchair-bound woman named Joanna (Christina Nagy) who suffers from PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. As a child, she was raped by a psychotic priest and thrown down a flight of stairs. The priest used a doll to lure her to the crime scene.

Her attractive female caretaker Ruth (Carroll Blumenberg) has a lesbian attraction to her and tries to stop the marriage. As if Joanna doesn't have enough problems, her husband only married her to steal her money. He is trying to stop her from donating one-half of her wealth to a church project to which her deceased father committed her while upon his deathbed.

One by one, priests start turning up dead, as the murder plot unfolds. One priest has his throat cut while in a confession booth, another has his head bashed in with a heavy blunt object. Joanna's doctor (Rossano Brazzi) warns her that she has a bad heart and that she shouldnt allow herself to get overly agitated nor too aroused during sex. Joanna begins to experience hallucinations in which she sees a leering priest stalking her while holding a bloody doll in his hands.

Cast
  • David Warbeck as Craig
  • Christina Nagy as Joanna
  • Carroll Blumenberg as Ruth
  • Rossano Brazzi as Dr. Sernich
  • Andrea Bosic as Father Peter
  • Loris Loddi as Father Davis
  • Daniela De Carolis
  • Rodolfo Ruzza
  • Adriana Giuffre[5]

References
  1. Margot Winick (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares. Fantasma Books, 1996. ISBN 0963498274.
  2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
  3. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  4. Luther-Smith, Adrian (1999). Blood and Black Lace: The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies. Stray Cat Publishing Ltd. p. 51
  5. Luther-Smith, Adrian (1999). Blood and Black Lace: The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies. Stray Cat Publishing Ltd. p. 51


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