Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
Giallo films often start with a woman being murdered. This starts with a young girl being murdered, accompanied with a beautiful yet eerie Morricone score sets the tone for this film. It is more sombre and less focused in violence, while still keeping the genres narrative formula and aesthetics. I am really starting to like these films for how they are very similar yet different, like with spaghetti westerns. That the plot end up where you expect it to, where the killers motive comes from “something that happened in the past” isn’t the interesting part, it is how this film handles it and does the same thing a little bit different than the others. And instead of murdering 20 year olds, the victims are here 10 year old girls - that makes it a very different experience.
Rating: 3.5