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| director       = [[Demofilo Fidani]]
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| screenplay     = {{plainlist|* Demofilo Fidani
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| story          = Demofilo Fidani<ref name="archiv">{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=SW8301|title=A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (1972)|language=Italian|work=Archivio del cinema Italiano|accessdate=July 31, 2023|archive-date=July 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731145936/http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=SW8301|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| starring       = [[Paola Senatore]]
| cinematography = [[Aldo Giordani]]<ref name="cinematografo" />
| editing        = Piera Bruni<ref name="cinematografo" />
| music          = [[Coriolano Gori]]<ref name="cinematografo" />
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'''''A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...'''''  ({{lit|A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services...}}) is a 1972 Italian ''[[giallo]]'' film directed by [[Demofilo Fidani]].
 
== Plot ==
Cristina is working as a [[Call girl|call-girl.]] Her clients are mysteriously and brutally murdered one after another.

== Cast ==
* [[Paola Senatore]] as Cristina Graziani
* Simonetta Vitelli (credited as Simone Blondell) as Paola<ref name="cinematografo">{{Citation |title=A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... |url=https://www.cinematografo.it/film/aaa-massaggiatrice-bella-presenza-offresi-f2uudqek |access-date=July 31, 2023 |language=it |work=Cinematograf.it |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419205053/https://www.cinematografo.it/film/aaa-massaggiatrice-bella-presenza-offresi-f2uudqek |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Production==
The Italian [[film historian]] and [[Film criticism|critic]] Roberto Curti described ''A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...'' as being part of a minor wave of low-budget ''[[giallo]]'' films in second run and third-run venues.{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=224}}

The film"s script was written by director [[Demofilo Fidani]] and his wife Mila Vitelli.{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=226}} Unlike most of Fidani's films (predominantly [[Spaghetti Western|Westerns]]) in which he is credited under an English alias, the director is credited by his (real) Italian name.{{sfn|Bruschini}}

== Genre ==
The Italian database Cinematografo defines the film's [[Genre#Subgenre|subgenre]] as [[erotic thriller]].<ref name="cinematografo" /> The film contains elements of [[Horror film|horror]]{{sfn|Palmerini|Mistretta|1996|p=171}} and [[Slasher film|slasher]].{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=224}}

==Release==
''A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...'' was released in 1972.{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=225}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=9}} At the time of its release in France the same year, the film's version and its title (''Caresses à domicile'') were noted as "very daring",<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gomarasca |first1=Manlio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzPMCQAAQBAJ&dq=Caresses+%C3%A0+domicile+Fidani&pg=PA12 |title=La piccola cineteca degli orrori: Tutti i FILM che i fratelli Lumière non avrebbero mai voluto vedere |last2=Pulici |first2=Davide |date=2013-07-24 |publisher=Bureau |isbn=978-88-586-5486-6 |language=it}}</ref> the film being presented as a mere "[[erotic film]]" by'' La Revue du cinéma''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UA8IAQAAMAAJ&q=Caresses+%C3%A0+domicile+Fidani |title=La Revue du cinéma: image et son |date=1974 |publisher=Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente. |language=fr}}</ref> or a "[[Pornographic film|porn]] third-rate production" by ''Écran'''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hm8HAQAAIAAJ&q=Caresses+%C3%A0+domicile+Fidani |title=Ecran |date=1974 |publisher=Editions de l'Atlante. |language=fr}}</ref>

==Reception==
From retrospective reviews, Roberto Curti described the film as containing elements of Demofilo Fidani's typical style, specifically Western-type [[Revolver|revolvers]] and [[Villain|villains]] falling in [[slow motion]] in "unlikely acrobatic manners."{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=225}} Antonio Bruschini, of the Italian genre magazine ''Nocturno'', found the ending of the film and the culprit predictable but noted that ''A.A.A. Massaggiatrice'' reflected the [[Dario Argento|Argentinean]] atmosphere of the period.{{sfn|Bruschini}}

== References ==
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===Sources===
* {{cite web|url=https://www.nocturno.it/movie/aaa-massaggiatrice-bella-presenza-offresi/|title=AAA Masseuse beautiful presence offered|last=Bruschini|first=Antonio|accessdate=July 31, 2023|work=Nocturno}}
*{{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Giallo in Film and Television|year=2022|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-8248-8}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Palmerini |first1=Luca M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RAUIAQAAMAAJ&q=Slasher+A.A.A.+Massaggiatrice+bella+presenza+offresi |title=Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-horrors as Seen Through the Eyes of Their Protagonists |last2=Mistretta |first2=Gaetano |date=1996 |publisher=Fantasma Books |isbn=978-0-9634982-7-4 |language=en}}

[[Category:1972 films]]
[[Category:Giallo films]]
[[Category:1970s erotic thriller films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Demofilo Fidani]]
[[Category:Films scored by Lallo Gori]]

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