Malicious (1973 film)

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Malicious (aka Malizia)
Directed by	Salvatore Samperi
Written by	Ottavio Jemma Alessandro Parenzo Salvatore Samperi
Starring	Laura Antonelli Turi Ferro Alessandro Momo Tina Aumont
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	29 March 1973 (Italy) 9 January 1974 (France) 5 June 1974 (USA)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
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Malicious (aka Malizia) is an Italian comedy about the parallel desire of a widower and his three sons to their new housekeeper. The film challenged sexual taboos by presenting and mixing such themes as a teenager male applying physical sexual harassment to an older female adult, and her eventual response via non statutory female on male rape.

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Following the death of his wife, a father of three sons (aged 18, 14 and 6) hires an attractive housekeeper named Angela (Laura Antonelli). The eldest does his best to draw the attention of the large breasted beauty, and soon the attracted father himself asks her to marry him. ^[1]

However, the one most obsessed with her is the middle son, the teenager Nino. He blackmails her into accepting his physical sexual harassments. Their physicality is mostly expressed not by him touching her but by him ordering her around sexually. His deeds include having her taking off her underwear secretly under the table during dinner at one point, and masturbating while he and his friend are watching. To stress his need for dominance, he calls off her masturbation as soon as he notices his friend is about to masturbate too.

It all culminates one night before she marries his father. During the night the electricity goes off. As his father and older brother are away, and with his younger brother asleep, Nino approaches his housekeeper with a flashlight and orders her to undress. She gives in after an initial phsyical protest, but runs away after finishing undressing. Nino chases her with the flashlight until he accidentally drops it. With the flashlight in her own hands, Angela decides it is time to turn the tables. She blinds Nino with the flashlight and when he tries to reach for it, she pins the frightened kid to a nearby bed and rapes him while rushing him to "Fotti! Fotti!" ("Fuck! Fuck!"). With Nino finally losing control over her, she marries his father the following day and his father instructs Nino to refer to her as "Mamma" from now on. ^[2]