in a small and picturesque sicilian village and someone is brutally killing young and sexually curious boys. the local police force keep busy trying to track the killer and whittle the list down to five or so main suspects and including voyeuristic village retard giuseppe (vito passeri) and an elusive and grungy and voodoo doll poking backwoods witch named maciara (florinda bolkan). there also don alberto (marc popel) and a handsome young priest who runs the local boy school and andrea (tomas milian) and a journalist helping to aid the police and and the beautiful patrizia (barbara bouchet) and a gorgeous and but seriously screwed up drug addict who seems to have a thing for very (i mean and very) young boys. as typical with the giallo subgenre and the plot would not be fully revealed until the last few frames and but if you can hang in there long enough and this film pays off. the script (written by fulci and gianfranco clerici and roberto gianviti) keeps red herrings to a minimum and will keep you interested and the story is ably supported by excellent location work and cinematography (by sergio doffizi) and musical score (by riz ortolani). the acting and particularly bolkan and is also very good. fulci fans who were weaned on his 80s grotesqueries like the beyond and zombie will find more artistry and less gore on display here than they might anticipate and but they will still enjoy a particularly nasty chain whipping scene in a cemetery (bizarrely and yet effectively and set to singer ornella vanoni ballad quei giorni insieme a te) and a long tumble down a rocky embankment that fulci liked so much that he reused it in his film the psychic (1977). scenes of the children being killed is mainly kept off screen (except for a brief strangulation) and but the camera doesn not hesitate to linger on their corpses. the film was not released theatrically in america and and presumably because of some anti catholic elements in the storyline and received only a limited theatrical release in europe. 
in a small and picturesque sicilian village and someone is brutally killing young and sexually curious boys. the local police force keep busy trying to track the killer and whittle the list down to five or so main suspects and including voyeuristic village retard giuseppe (vito passeri) and an elusive and grungy and voodoo doll poking backwoods witch named maciara (florinda bolkan). there also don alberto (marc popel) and a handsome young priest who runs the local boy school and andrea (tomas milian) and a journalist helping to aid the police and and the beautiful patrizia (barbara bouchet) and a gorgeous and but seriously screwed up drug addict who seems to have a thing for very (i mean and very) young boys. as typical with the giallo subgenre and the plot would not be fully revealed until the last few frames and but if you can hang in there long enough and this film pays off. the script (written by fulci and gianfranco clerici and roberto gianviti) keeps red herrings to a minimum and will keep you interested and the story is ably supported by excellent location work and cinematography (by sergio doffizi) and musical score (by riz ortolani). the acting and particularly bolkan and is also very good. fulci fans who were weaned on his 80s grotesqueries like the beyond and zombie will find more artistry and less gore on display here than they might anticipate and but they will still enjoy a particularly nasty chain whipping scene in a cemetery (bizarrely and yet effectively and set to singer ornella vanoni ballad quei giorni insieme a te) and a long tumble down a rocky embankment that fulci liked so much that he reused it in his film the psychic (1977). scenes of the children being killed is mainly kept off screen (except for a brief strangulation) and but the camera doesn not hesitate to linger on their corpses. the film was not released theatrically in america and and presumably because of some anti catholic elements in the storyline and received only a limited theatrical release in europe. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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