A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Una lucertola con la pelle di donna
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Why it matters
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin delivers a delirious plunge into giallo’s wildest, most psychosexual depths — a fever dream where repression and paranoia writhe through every frame.
- Lucio Fulci’s direction explodes with psychedelic visuals and surreal nightmare logic, pushing giallo beyond its usual whodunit into hallucinatory territory.
- Florinda Bolkan commands the screen, embodying a fractured psyche caught between desire and dread with unsettling grace.
- The film’s shock set pieces — especially its infamous LSD orgy sequence — remain a masterclass in blending explicitness with psychological terror.
- If you crave giallo that leans hard into body horror and subconscious chaos rather than straightforward mystery, this is a must-see trip through early ’70s European genre daring.
Director
22 horror films in catalog
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971
Don't Torture a Duckling 1972
The Psychic 1977
Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979
City of the Living Dead 1980
The House by the Cemetery 1981
The Beyond 1981
The Black Cat 1981
The New York Ripper 1982
Manhattan Baby 1982
Conquest 1983
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death 1984
Ænigma 1987
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 1988
Touch of Death 1988
Sodoma's Ghost 1988
The Sweet House of Horrors 1989
The House of Clocks 1989
A Cat in the Brain 1990
Demonia 1990
Voices from Beyond 1991
Door Into Silence 1991
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
14
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
100
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
67
Fun Factor
17
Cerebral
99
Survival
0
