A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

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• The film's central metaphor of a 'lizard'—a creature that sheds its skin—symbolizes Carol's repressed desires and societal constraints, with the murder reflecting her subconscious rebellion against patriarchal expectations (e.g., her politician father's control).

• Some critics interpret the LSD orgies as a critique of 1960s hedonism, suggesting Fulci used the drug's hallucinatory effects to expose the dark underbelly of countercultural liberation, where pleasure and violence intertwine.

• The blurred line between dream and reality may be a commentary on the unreliability of perception, particularly in the context of trauma or mental illness, prefiguring later psychological horror like 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990).

• The neighbor's murder could represent Carol's internalized misogyny, with the victim embodying the 'ideal woman' she feels pressured to emulate—a theory supported by the film's frequent close-ups of Carol's tormented expressions.

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.