Come Play with Me (1968)
Directed by Salvatore Samperi
Genres - Drama, Culture & Society |
Sub-Genres - Erotic Drama |
Run Time - 94 min. |
Countries - Italy |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Grazie Zia is better known by its English-language title Thank You, Aunt. As an act of defiance against a world he never fit into, 17-year-old Alvise (Lou Castel) has willed himself into a state of psychosomatic paralysis. From the vantage point of his wheelchair, Alvise cruelly manipulates all those around him. The only one who seems to resist his tyranny is his gorgeous aunt Lea (Lisa Gastoni). Hopelessly in love with Lea, Alvise determines to "conquer" her as well. Her response to his insidious mind games is hardly what Alvise expects, but it's certainly what the audience has been clamoring for since Reel One. To call Grazie Zia kinky would be putting it mildly. The film was also released as Come Play With Me.
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mind-control, seduction, aunt, desire, doctor/nurse, estate, frustration, game, handicap, harassment, impotence [lack of power], injection, lover, maniac, manipulation, mind, mind-games, nephew, nurturing, paralysis, problems, psychiatry, sexual, sexual-frustration, tension, torment, victim, visit, wheelchair, youth, release
