Renato Romano

An inspector investigates the case of a mad scientist, who creates a monster that breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.

In this deliriously bizarre thriller, a scientist conducting experiments at his high-tech farm to breed headless, boneless chickens, is caught in a disastrous love triangle!

After witnessing the attempted murder of a Rome art gallery owner, an American writer and his girlfriend investigate as they’re trailed by the killer.

A man, whose wife was attacked by the Half-Moon Killer, works with the police to hunt down the murderer before he claims his seventh victim.

After police make him a suspect in a murder investigation, a journalist tries to track down the actual killer, who's been targeting people around him.

One of several 'animal-in-the-title' cash-ins released in the wake of Dario Argento's box-office smash The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire is a gloriously excessive giallo that boasts a rogues gallery of perverse characters; violent, fetishized murders, and one of the genre's most nonsensical, red-herring laden plots (which sees almost every incidental character hinted at potentially being the killer). Set in Dublin (a rather surprising giallo setting), Iguana opens audaciously with an acid-throwing, razor-wielding maniac brutally slaying a woman in her own home. The victim's mangled corpse is discovered in a limousine owned by Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky (Anton Diffring, Where Eagles Dare) and a police investigation is launched, but when the murdering continues and the ambassador claims diplomatic immunity, tough ex-cop John Norton (Luigi Pistilli, A Bay of Blood) is brought in to find the killer... Benefitting from a sumptuous score by Stelvio Cipriani (Nightmare City, Death Walks on High Heels) and exuberant supporting performances from Valentina Cortese (The Possessed, Thieves' Highway) and Dagmar Lassander (The Frightened Woman, The Black Cat), The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire is a luridly over-the-top latter-day entry in the filmography of acclaimed director Riccardo Freda (Caltiki - The Immortal Monster, Murder Obsession).