MARIE (Edwige Fenech) is found crucified in a mockery of her earlier “virgin sacrifice” in 5 BAMBOLE PER LA LUNA D’AGOSTO.
LFREDO LEONE REMEMBERS that Mario Bava approached him with a copy of the Hatchet for the Honeymoon script as the filming of Four Times That
Night was coming to a close. This indicates that the picture was still uncompleted at this time, in limbo since the bud- get bottomed out in Paris; it still needed additional footage to wrap it up. Leone had rescued Four Times at the eleventh hour, so it makes sense that Bava would see if he and his New York partners might be interested in salvaging an- other. Leone read the Moncada script (which bore only fleet- ing resemblance to what Bava had actually shot) and “was not impressed,” feeling that the material was “ordinary and unworthy of Bava.” He declined to get involved, but made it clear that he would be more than happy to work with Bava again—when the right project came along.