La Queue du scorpion

Un giallo bien structuré, d’une durée bien tapée et joliment fluide. Il se pose néanmoins comme un représentant relativement modéré et moins extrême que les autres films du genre, généralement bien sanglants. Cela dit, il était difficile de deviner l’identité de l’assassin jusque dans les dernières minutes. Sergio Martino savait s’y prendre ! (11/07/2019)

The Italian film The Case of the Scorpion's Tail is everything pleasant you can imagine when it comes to the giallo genre. The film lacks greater explicitness and more openness in some scenes, but it has a very good story, good characters, both written and acted, and the script is definitely worth devoting full attention to. Italian giallo, if you haven't seen it all already, will never get old. (19/11/2018)

Thanks to Martino I developed a taste for Giallo. Thanks for this one, too! 85%. (23/02/2010)

Yes, it's quite naive at times (a hallmark of early Giallo pieces), but great satisfaction otherwise. Martino cleverly plays with the viewer, the reveal of the bad guy was – at least for me – surprising, there are plenty of murders and they don't need to be spectacularly stylized, the early killing of one of the characters is unexpected just like in Psycho (which is a tribute) and the ending in the bay is also quite suspenseful. It's definitely better than anything from the overrated Argento of the time, whose stupid scripting twists gave me headaches. But I am gradually coming to like the early work of Sergio Martino. (16/02/2021)