By Stephen Pytak 

     If Dario Argento and Hugh Hefner collaborated 
on a slasher picture, it might turn out like this.
     Also titled "Erotic Blue," this cool giallo is a 
murder mystery, like Argento's "Bird With the Crystal 
Plummage (1970)," but there are more lesbians, sex 
groupies and strippers in the mix.
     If you're not a fan of Italian giallo films, but like 
"Friday the 13th" style slasher films, I really 
encourage you to check this one out. If nothing else, 
the voluptuous Edwige Fenech will keep you 
interested.
     Anchor Bay released this along with three other 
Italian slasher films as part of "The Giallo 
Collection." I'm really glad they did. I'm a big fan of 
these films and wasn't sure how many of them were 
out there. 
     If you think Argento and Fulci are the only 
filmmakers worth a damn in Italy, think again. 
Anchor Bay is introducing us to more of them and if 
there are any more good slasher flicks from Italy, I 
hope the distributor has the guts to put them on disc.
     From what I've read, "The Case of the Bloody 
Iris" has been called the most erotic of the four films 
in this Anchor Bay set and the weakest. Well, if this is 
the weakest, then I can't wait to see the other three. I 
thought "Bloody Iris" was bloody great.  
     I started the disc just before midnight on 
Saturday, told my wife I was only going to watch 10 
minutes of it and ended up watching all 94.
     The film is about a man in black, like the ones we 
see in Argento's films and not unlike the one in 
"Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)." 
He's bumping off some high class ladies, all of which 
live in an apartment building. He's killing them in 
elevators and bathtubs. 
     He targets a model, "Jennifer (Fenech)," who's 
got more to worry about than the killer. She's got an 
ex-husband stalking her and a lesbian neighbor 
who's got the hots for her. 
     The final showdown takes place in a stairwell, a 
deep stairwell. When you have a stairwell, you know 
someone's going down it. I'm not going to say who. 
But I will say the fall was very believable.