The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

This is a well structured, fast paced Italian Giallo movie with a decent running-time. It is one of the more mild mannered siblings from this genre, but guessing who the murderer was proved challenging up until the very last minute. Sergio Martino simply knows his craft. (07/11/2019)

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. (02/16/2021)

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

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. (11/19/2018)