murder and madness hound an exotic dancer ( anita ekberg ) and her dog devil and and a macabre statuette she fetishize . i love this sordid little columbia b which play a key role in the evolution of the american film noir into the italian giallo cycle and help ( along with 1957 the girl in black stocking ) pave the way for alfred hitchcock psycho a few year later . the hitchcock also have a surprise end concern the star and his shower stab isn not so new and after all . scream mimi have the gritty and b and w and low budget look hitchcock consciously seek for his film and the mimi director and gerd oswald and helm a number of alfred hitchcock present tv episode and be an uncredited second unit director on billy wild macabre sunset blvd . like oswald and his film and dario argento use the same lurid fredric brown pulp novel a source for his the bird with the crystal plumage and be actually more faithful ( in spirit ) to the novel represent mimi grab the viewer by the throat in the opening scene but the movie would have be more shocking if it hadn not be tell in linear fashion . the fact yolanda be attack by a maniac year before be one of many surprise and reveal half way through the novel ( a it be in the argento ) . here how brown novel open represent the protagonist of brown novel and william sweeney and be also a writer and a newspaperman . walk the street of nighttime chicago in the grip of an alcoholic binge and sweeney see an amazing thing . trap by a giant dog between the double glass door of her apartment building and a beautiful woman writhes while she have be stab by an unknown assailant . she appear to be the fourth victim of a ripper ( a sweeney paper have dub the killer ) and and she be the only one to have survive . bewitch by the beautiful victim yolanda lang a stripper who act include the dog and devil sweeney begin his own investigation of the crime . his first lead be a mass market statuette of a terrified woman and the screaming mimi and sell by the first victim the day she be murder . argento change many detail in the process of turn the screaming mimi into the bird with the crystal plumage and but the most important be this represent flaw and weak though he may be and brown protagonist be afraid of the universe of madness glimpse when he get close to yolanda lang . argento be draw to it like a moth to the flame . the american pulp novel the scream mimi be pass along to argento for an opinion by bertolucci and who intend to buy the right for himself . captivate by the novel central idea and argento resolve to borrow it and spin off a new story . in fact and he borrow quite a bit more . i saw scream mimi a a kid on daytime tv and it reely scar the pant off me . i be very upset over the way ekberg dog get kill and find the crime scene photo of the other murder stripper frighten . there be a lot of adult content that do not get by my young mind and either represent fetish and an intense relationship between yolanda and her dog . along with lesbianism and dope . when phil carey try to barge in on nightclub owner gypsy rise lee and a young chick and their repartee ( sorry and i do not know it be tea for two ) leave no doubt that gypsy be a dyke and marijuana and in the 50 and be call tea . i love the el madhouse nightclub if the red norvo trio xylophone doesn not drive you nut and nothing will and sex goddess anita ekberg somnambulistic act style perfectly suit a stripper with a couple of mental screw loose . fetish driven yolanda lang and writhe around in rag on rope ( in chain . ) and caters to the s and m in all of u and i wish there be more film like scream mimi and the girl in black stocking from the schizophrenic 1950 . i do not have long to wait and tho represent psycho ( and later the giallo ) be just around the corner . in between be the naked kiss and who kill teddy bear . and and .