GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Micransix Crappy film

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Red-Barracuda Aldo Lado is surely one of the most under-rated Italian directors of the 70's. He seems to be relatively forgotten, while several lesser contemporaries get a lot more attention. But whatever the case, Lado was responsible for three excellent horror/thrillers in the mid-70's. There was the nasty revenge thriller Night Train Murders and a couple of gialli - the Prague-set Short Night of the Glass Dolls and the Venice-set Who Saw Her Die? All films were very distinct from one and other and all had considerable style to burn.Who Saw Her Die? is the one which follows the classic style formula of the giallo most closely. In it a serial killer is on the prowl in Venice. Like Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, this one used the crumbling streets of that famous ancient city to great creepy effect. It begins, however, in the French Alps with a nicely atmospheric prologue in which a young child is killed by a black-veiled killer in the snowy expanses. This villain is a very good one and is presented throughout the movie in a very sinister manner indeed, with close-up shots of their shoes as they menacingly advance toward their victims and shots of their obscured veiled face. Additionally this character is accompanied by an absolutely rivetingly creepy Ennio Morricone theme which is a controlled cacophony of a children's choir over a steady beat. It's one of his most memorable individual bits of music and that's saying a lot considering the sheer volume and quality of Il Maestro's output. The cast is solid with George Lazenby appearing in his first starring role following his solitary turn as James Bond in the under-valued On Her Majesty's Secret Service; while he is ably supported by genre regular's such as Anita Strindberg (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail) and Adolfo Celi (Danger: Diabolik).As far as I am concerned, this is an excellent giallo by one of the most reliable Italian directors from the period. It works well as a pretty intriguing mystery, while it delivers the requisite vicarious thrills too. And most importantly it presents these things with a healthy slice of style and verve. Well worth seeing…!

Vomitron_G Gripping giallo with slightly more disturbing themes than we're used to. Mainly because little girls are being killed here, as well as there seem to be decadent sex-sessions going on amongst a group of selected adults. Apart from the opening scene, this movie takes place in Venice, but doesn't exactly extol this romantic city. Director Aldo Lado prefers to portray a city in decay, showing us several rundown buildings where some of the chase scenes take place and a sleazy cinema-theatre as well as drawing out some perverted characters. The sometimes sloppy editing and grainy cinematography help in giving this movie a raw feeling. Ennio Morricone's score is pretty haunting. The main theme has a children's choir singing creepy chantings. Though that theme is over-used more than a bit too much, it never misses its effect. There was just one disappointment, though: this was the third time in a giallo-row that I guessed, very early on in the movie, who the killer was... Oh well, it's still a decent and disturbing giallo. Certainly worth it if you're a fan of the genre.

Leonard Smalls: The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse All in all, "Who Saw Her Die?" is a very well-done giallo, but those of us who have seen more than a few of these kind of films can pretty much see the ending from five miles away. I don't want to rag on it too much; the soundtrack is fairly decent, the acting is okay, the story makes sense and the script is well-penned. It just fails to shock us or to make us think.A psychopath randomly offs a young, red-haired girl in the 60's. Fast forward to the 70's, it happens again. The murders are tied together. The neglecting, mournful father tries to find the killer and is successful in the end. Not much else really happens. It turns out to be a typical Hitchcockesque twist that will have you nodding your head, saying to yourself 'gee I didn't see that coming...' I'd recommend at least a dozen giallos before this one. Check out "The House With Laughing Windows" for a magnificent example of the genre.4 out of 10, kids.

Woodyanders Successful sculptor Franco Serpiere (a solid performance by 007 oneshot George Lazenby, who looks gaunt and worn) and his adorable daughter Roberta (sweetly played by cute redhead Nicoletta Elmi of "Bay of Blood" and "Deep Red") are spending some quality time together in scenic Venice, Italy. Roberta gets brutally killed by a lethal vicious lunatic. Franco finds himself in considerable danger when he investigates her savage murder. Director Aldo ("Night Train Murders") Lado, who also co-wrote the engrossingly dark and complex script, relates the intricate story at a slow, but steady pace, expertly creating a creepy, edgy, yet elegant tone and staging the murder set pieces with impressively grisly and stylish aplomb. Ennio Morricone's supremely eerie and unnerving score makes especially effective use of a ghostly angelic children's choir. Franco Di Giacomo's beautifully crisp and polished cinematography offers plenty of sumptuously smooth gliding tracking shots and evokes Venice in a strikingly misty, breathtaking and atmospheric way. The uniformly fine acting from a sturdy cast qualifies as another major asset, with especially praiseworthy work by Lazenby, Elmi, Adolfo Celi (the Bond villain in "Thunderball") as friendly art gallery owner Serafian, Anita Strindberg as Franco's concerned estranged wife Elizabeth, and Rosemarie Lindt as Franco's lusty lover Gabriella. Excellent zinger of a shocking surprise twist ending, too.