Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) Reviews

(BluR) Harsh, big plot, effectist but strong (the killing of Florinda is great), undertones, sexy Bouchet is innocent but seems other way, gialla in the supertitious country...

A singular and explosive work in Fulci's filmo. Giallo atypical, disconcerting and striking. With an inevitably cult cast.

Filmed in 1972 about several murders of young boys in a small remote village. Showing the first part of the killer is of course his hands, poking needles into what seem like voodoo dolls of certain kids with horrifying music and faint screaming of each child in the background. That scene sets the grounds for an interesting and most violent near future. Lucio Fulci has this marvelous way of setting a sexual encounter in each of his films that sticks with you as one of the scenes you’ll never forget from that specific film. That, and of course, a brutal death scene that makes you cringe as it is set into your mind forever. With the town up in arms and a man in custody, all shit has hit the fan and the public wants blood from the man they believe killed the boy who has been missing for so long. After a second body turns up, there is a pattern of a murderous actions by someone other than who they believe. Desperate to find answers, the cops rush and question who they can before the town gets out of control and another young boys is found murdered.