Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
George Hilton | ... | Inspector Luca Peretti | |
Salvo Randone | ... | Chief Marò | |
William Berger | ... | Giorgio Canavese | |
Marilù Tolo | ... | Dr. Anna Borgese | |
Manuel Zarzo | ... | Brigadier Bozzi (as Manolo Zarzo) | |
Patty Shepard | ... | Paola Rossi, the teacher | |
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Piero Lulli | ... | Alessandro Moroni |
Helga Liné | ... | Mrs. Paradisi | |
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Tullio Valli | ... | Oliviero Moroni |
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Dante Maggio | ... | Mattia Guardapelle |
Dana Ghia | ... | Eleonora Moroni | |
Alfredo Mayo | ... | Beniamino | |
Mónica Randall | ... | Carla Moroni | |
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Corrado Gaipa | ... | Head of Insurance Company |
Lara Wendel | ... | Stefania Moroni (as Daniela Rachele Barnes) |
Following a mysterious decapitation (via mechanical digger) of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case. Slowly more people are found dead... a man supposedly commits suicide, a women is strangled, another attacked in her flat... but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder. Can Peretti find the murderer, if his major clue is a little girls drawing??? Written by Andrew Lines <peter_lines@lineone.net>
"My Dear Killer" is another fun and decent entry in the Italian Giallo thrillers genre and begins interestingly enough with a man standing at a eerie lake and then meets his end with a gloriously twisted tractor accident/murder, and straight away lets the viewer know what's in store for the rest of the movie.
The plot is very interesting for starters as we get the main character a detective trying to solve this crime, which then leads him to a kidnapping case from before where the child and father were both murdered. Then along the way of course everybody who was involved meets some sort of sticky end, which was another aspect that excited and interested me, especially the girl who gets attacked with a buzzsaw, which was both terrifying and well done.
Okay there are some bad points, like for starters the pacing was rather slow at times and some of the characters didn't quite stand out, I couldn't tell some of them apart and there weren't enough colourful characters to fully ingage in. But what saves things are the delightful twists and turns round every corner, and especially loved the scene at the end where the detective gathers round the last remaining suspects in a Agatha Christie kinda way, about the reveal the identity of the killer, which was delightful, especially when the lights go out and then someone screams.
All in all a fairly entertaining addition to the Giallo genre, but not one of the best ones though, but still decent enough.