Il mascalzone

...an extremely lairy and tasty piece of work in which Richard Burton gave one of his best, most lip-smackingly gruesome performances...

...sometimes a seemingly unprepossessing genre film comes along that has finer qualities than you would expect. Such is the case here.

...Fairbrass and Russo (...) make you want to stay invested in their respective characters, even when it’s obvious that their stories cannot end well.

Burton is truly creepy in a fascinating in-depth performance...