Episode 34: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

An array of giallo regulars, and Stanley Baker, are confounded by a murder-within-a-dream in Lucio Fulci's bloody, brilliant 1971 classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin/Una lucertola con la pelle di donna.

CW: Sexualised violence, suicide, drug use, gaslighting, animal cruelty, gore.

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