Review for…
I VIOLENTI DI ROMA BENE

Antonio Sabato

Inspector Gregorio is on assignment trying to capture a gang of thugs responsible for a spate of robberies, rapes and eventually murder. The main culprit is found to be a young man who comes from a wealthy family making it difficult for Gregorio to nail him. In fact, all members of the gang are young. As the
violence escalates Gregorio gets the evidence he needs and goes after the gang.

One of the sleaziest and most mysogynistic and unsettling films I’ve seen. Not surprising coming from sleaze merchant, director Sergio Grieco (BEAST WITH A GUN). One scene has the gang repeatedly grate a woman’s face across barb wire before raping her. Copious amounts of violence and nudity. For pure
exploitation value the film excels, but none of the characters are developed very well.

Antonio Sabato isn’t very memorable as Gregorio who also is a Karate black belt and gets to shows his stuff in a decent martial arts scene when crooks
wearing hoods (the young gang) attack him and his girlfriend in a gym. One of the crooks even rips away Gregorio’s girlfriends blouse revealing her breasts. All the women in the film end up defiled, raped or murdered often all three. Definitely a 42nd street item.

I don’t recognize any of the other cast members and the soundtrack sounds like a porn flick of the time but one piece is very reminiscent of the Jimmy Page music he did for the memorable DEATH WISH 2 soundtrack.

6 out of 10.