At least this Lamberto Bava film has a unique premise: A detective discovers that a serial killer's murders are all connected by the late husband of a beautiful widow. After all, his organs have been transplanted into each dead body!

That said - there is a great scene where the killer eviscerates a schoolteacher victim in front of her class of blind students, spraying one of them with plasma. If only the rest of the film lived up to its premise like this scene!

That said, there are plenty of Italian exploitation faves in this one.

Polish actress Joanna Pacula was in Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis (it's an early comic book film, based on a Dark Horse comic) and Gorky Park. She plays the lead, Tracy and in real life, once dated Roman Polanski.

Tomas Arana - who is on The New Pope these days - is better known to our readers for appearing in The Church, He and Pacula were also in Tombstone together.

Look out! There's Gianni Garko, who is beloved here for his work in movies like Devilfish, The Psychic, four of the five legit Sartana films (If You Meet Sartana...Pray for Your Death; I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death; Have a Good Funeral, My Friend...Sartana Will Pay and Light the Fuse...Sartana Is Coming),Encounters In the Deep and Star Odyssey. There's Erika Blanc (Kill, Baby... Kill!, The George Hilton-starring Sartana's Here...Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse)! And Giovanni Lombardo Radice, always a great scumbag in movies like The House on the Edge of the Park and its sequel where he was the main focus, Stagefright, Bob the literal pervert in City of the Living Dead, Cannibal Ferox and Phantom of Death.

Jasmine Maimone, who was in Demons, Demons 6: De Profundis and Paganini Horror was the original choice for the lead, but she retired before this bloody mess could be made.

Body Puzzle is something of an atypical giallo in so far as that the face of the killer is seen from the outset. The rest, as they say, is business as usual, with director Lamberto Bava delivering a convoluted murder mystery with a beautiful woman in peril (Joanna Pacula),a tough cop trying to crack the case (Tomas Arana),and several elaborately staged, mean-spirited murders.

Pacula plays widow Tracy, who begins to receive gruesome gifts from a serial killer: body parts from his victims. As the murderer goes about his business, police detective Michele (Arana) tries to figure out the motive for the slayings, thereby leading him to uncover the killer's identity. It all gets a little tough to follow at times, but Bava's stylish direction and the grisly death scenes ensure a good time for giallo fans.

Gory highlights include the vicious murder of a pastry store owner (who loses his ear) and the chopping off of a woman's hand in a toilet cubicle, but the most ingenious killing has to be that of a teacher in a classroom full of blind children, the psycho committing his crime as the kids happily listen to a recording of 'Peter and the Wolf'. Fans of italian horror will also get a kick out of seeing genre favourite Giovanni Lombardo Radice as camp stable owner Morangi, who supplies Michele with a vital clue.

Very decent horror/thriller, not quite falling into the 'giallo' category as few of the classic ingredients are present, except perhaps plot holes and inefficient policemen, but let us not be churlish. This is a grisly tale with more than a few twists and killings. It is more what happens after the kills that is particularly grisly and then we have various bits being sent to the leading lady. Joanna Pacula plays throughout the movie a heroine in peril and pretty well too. Stylishinteriors at the start remind one of A Blade In The Dark and whilst this is not as consistent as that film it is nonetheless a decent ride.