Storyline

In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, Monica Ranieri, a couple of days before returning home. Inspector Morosini, who is in charge of investigating the three previous murderers of the serial-killer, asks for help to Dalmas and takes his passport. Dalmas decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and to help the police in the investigation. The killer threatens Dalmas and Julia by phone and the police overhears a strange noise in the tape. Soon the serial killer stalks Julia and Damas. Who might be the killer?

Plot Keywords

serial killer, twist ending, stabbed to death, giallo, italy, stabbed in the back, girlfriend, mysterious stranger, mysterious villain, human monster, villain, body count, butcher, butchery, serial murder, carabinieri, police officer, dead woman with eyes open, sadistic psychopath, crime scene

Short Review

It is as though The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is interrogating the different functions performed by graphic portrayals of murder (much like this film itself), and facing viewers with their own cathartic, and possibly dangerous, fears and desires.

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