7. The Frightened Woman (1969)
Directed by the snappily titled Piero Shivazappa, The Frightened Woman (Femina Riddens) was a pretty obscure little title until that lover of all things great and Italian, Shameless Screen Entertainment, rescued it from floundering as a nonentity. And boy are we glad that they did! Gorgeous journalist Dagmar Lassander (another outstanding Giallo-starring beauty) is captured by Phillipe Leroy and subjected to all sorts of torture and degradation. She finds out that she is not the only one to have received this fate and that Leroy's intentions are ultimately murderous. However, as the trailer advertises - this little kitty has teeth.. Fabulously groovy in a late 1960s kind of way, The Frightened Woman shakes the whole film up with its strident feminist ending. It features some amazing set pieces like Phillipe Leroy striding out of a feature comprised of a pair of women's thighs. He does of course exit from the vagina which has teeth! Dagmar Lassander does a sexy dance whilst clad in nothing but skimpy bandages. The atmosphere is so surreal and kinky, I urge lovers of the bizarre to check this one out.