Director: Aldo Lado
Writers: Francesco Barilli, Massimo D'Avak
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Starring: George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero, Peter Chatel, Piero Vida, Jose Quaglio, Alessandro Haber, Nicoletta Elmi
More info: IMDb
Plot: A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) start investigating, and soon find they are in way over their head. Meanwhile, the body-count keeps rising as the killer now starts butchering all those who find out too much...
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
Sweet! George Lazenby starring in a Giallo (thriller) from '72! Oh, wait, his voice was dubbed by someone else. Damn it! It's still a good flick. Thanks to Ennio Morricone's unsettling main theme, this high body count whodunit set in Venice with a fine cast is more enjoyable than a lot of this genre that I've seen. It's not a genre I'm fond of only because of the high rate of bad to mediocre films. I'm getting picky with the ones I watch these days. Anything with Lazenby is going to get shown in the Scorethefilm house. Like a good Giallo, you get knifings, black gloves and nudity. You also get a long list of suspects that get killed off one by one so you keep adjusting who you think the killer is until it's whittled down to a tight short list. Don't look for greatness but you'll find a worthy entry into the genre. Great score. It's going to take a while to shake that reverb theme out of my noggin.
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