Writer: Ernesto Gastaldi
Release Year: 1974
Italian Title: Milano Odia: La Polizia Non Può Sparare
Not nearly human, but delightfully beastly
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren’t making him all that much money, so he figures to hit it big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man. Piece of cake, or so it seems, but as to be expected, things don’t go down all that smoothly.
Even if you’re only just slightly interested in cult-cinema of the golden 60′s-70′s period, you know that whatever trend the Italian directors took on; they did it better. Whether it was horror, westerns or – as in this case – crime thriller, the Italians always surpassed the standards of any other major film-producing country and delivered politically incorrect but hugely entertaining & genre defining movies. One of the few (brilliant) directors active in all different fields was Umberto Lenzi, whose brutally entertaining ‘Almost Human’ is a truly terrific and ultra-violent classic.
