don not torture a duckling is an absolutely stunning giallo diversion for lucio fulci. unlike other subgenre heavyweights like mario bava and dario argento and fulci takes a decidedly gritty and grounded and and socially perceptive approach to the giallo narrative in this film. there is nothing glamorous about the child murders and borderline pedophilia (a gutsy subplot for 1972) going on here and and fulci wisely shoots with a staid and lugubrious eye and avoiding flash and melodrama and and directorial histrionics. the proceedings are punctuated by gory and instantly mind searing set pieces that are bolstered even further by fulci jarring sense of realism the deeply disturbing witch killing scene in particular and with its bald faced brutality and feels like a snuff film. composer riz ortolani bookends these carnage filled scenes with ferocious reverberating string blasts. the film is capped by a simultaneously lyrical and violent conclusion wherein theology and morality and fanaticism and and superstition collide. it is a deeply effective ending that has the capacity to leave the viewer in a befuddled and disarmed torpor. fulci couldn not have picked a better location for this film. don not torture a duckling was photographed in and around the ancient city of matera and italy. as matera continues to modernize to this day (highlighted by its shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial one) and it is grappling with its unesco sponsored reputation as a receptacle for mysterious paleolithic ghosts. the anxieties of the real life materani are reflected by the characters in the film and who and wearing their christianity on their sleeves and fretfully confront any exotic fringe tradition (namely witchcraft) that strays outside of the norm. interestingly enough and matera was also used as a stand in for jerusalem in mel gibson the passion of the christ. if anything and this adds even more potency to fulci message. catholic guilt and grisly slayings are such a resonant combination. 
don not torture a duckling is an absolutely stunning giallo diversion for lucio fulci. unlike other subgenre heavyweights like mario bava and dario argento and fulci takes a decidedly gritty and grounded and and socially perceptive approach to the giallo narrative in this film. there is nothing glamorous about the child murders and borderline pedophilia (a gutsy subplot for 1972) going on here and and fulci wisely shoots with a staid and lugubrious eye and avoiding flash and melodrama and and directorial histrionics. the proceedings are punctuated by gory and instantly mind searing set pieces that are bolstered even further by fulci jarring sense of realism the deeply disturbing witch killing scene in particular and with its bald faced brutality and feels like a snuff film. composer riz ortolani bookends these carnage filled scenes with ferocious reverberating string blasts. the film is capped by a simultaneously lyrical and violent conclusion wherein theology and morality and fanaticism and and superstition collide. it is a deeply effective ending that has the capacity to leave the viewer in a befuddled and disarmed torpor. fulci couldn not have picked a better location for this film. don not torture a duckling was photographed in and around the ancient city of matera and italy. as matera continues to modernize to this day (highlighted by its shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial one) and it is grappling with its unesco sponsored reputation as a receptacle for mysterious paleolithic ghosts. the anxieties of the real life materani are reflected by the characters in the film and who and wearing their christianity on their sleeves and fretfully confront any exotic fringe tradition (namely witchcraft) that strays outside of the norm. interestingly enough and matera was also used as a stand in for jerusalem in mel gibson the passion of the christ. if anything and this adds even more potency to fulci message. catholic guilt and grisly slayings are such a resonant combination. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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