The Red Headed Corpse

The Red Headed Corpse is a 1972 Italian-Turkish giallo film. Its original Italian title, La rossa dalla pelle che scotta, translates roughly as “the redhead with burning skin”. The film has also circulated as The Sensuous Doll and Sweet Spirits, and was released in France as La Peau qui brûle and in Spanish-speaking countries as El cadáver asesino. Some sources give the year as 1971. It is in Italian and runs about 82 minutes.

Renzo Russo directed and wrote it. The cast is led by Farley Granger (John Ward), Erika Blanc, Krista Nell, Ivana Novak (Mala) and Venantino Venantini, joined by Fatma Karanfil, Aydın Tezel and Erol Keskin from Turkish cinema; Umberto Di Grazia, Giorgio Dolfin, Filippo Perrone and Eriş Akman are also credited.

Mario Maestrelli produced, Sante Maria Romitelli composed the music and Luciano Trasatti was the cinematographer.