A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Directed by Sergio Martino
psychopath
swamp
murder
serial killer
slasher
whodunit
prostitution
maniac
Rank
#32 in 1973·#4070 overall
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Cast
Suzy Kendall
Jane
Tina Aumont
Daniela Anselmi
Luc Merenda
Roberto
John Richardson
Prof. Franz
Roberto Bisacco
Stefano Vanzi
Ernesto Colli
Gianni Tomasso, the Scarf Vendor
Angela Covello
Katia
Carla Brait
Ursula
Conchita Airoldi
Carol Peterson
Patrizia Adiutori
Florence Heineken
Luciano Bartoli
Motorcycle Guy #1
Giorgio Dolfin
Slim Boy in Village
Crew
Sergio Martino
Director
Sergio Martino
Screenplay
Ernesto Gastaldi
Screenplay
Guido De Angelis
Original Music Composer
Maurizio De Angelis
Original Music Composer
Eugenio Alabiso
Editor
Giancarlo Ferrando
Director of Photography
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Silvio Laurenzi
Costume Design
Sergio Martino
Story
Michele Massimo Tarantini
First Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
106 reviews
Ghost
6.0★ · 09/25/25
I’m just saying if I got strangled by that ugly ass scarf I’m haunting the fucker who killed me
I’m just saying if I got strangled by that ugly ass scarf I’m haunting the fucker who killed me
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John West
8.0★ · 03/08/22
Interracial lesbian couple? Italian villas? Sign me up!
Interracial lesbian couple? Italian villas? Sign me up!
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danny
6.9★ · 09/24/25
hooptober 12 #7death is the best keeper of secrets.
the most final girl of like any giallo (suspiria barely counts as giallo SIT DOWN) and she still doesn't get to really do anything... sigh. at least she got to be smart girl at the beginning. also the first black girl i think i've ever seen in one of these movies?! diversity win! several women of multiple races get dismembered! maybe i've seen too many of this type of movie but the description described a "sex maniac" killing women but like ok he just touched their boobs. like how sex maniac is that relatively. also he hates women because his brother died while trying to convince a girl to show him her panties. yeah man sure that's the logical step
hooptober 12 #7death is the best keeper of secrets.
the most final girl of like any giallo (suspiria barely counts as giallo SIT DOWN) and she still doesn't get to really do anything... sigh. at least she got to be smart girl at the beginning. also the first black girl i think i've ever seen in one of these movies?! diversity win! several women of multiple races get dismembered! maybe i've seen too many of this type of movie but the description described a "sex maniac" killing women but like ok he just touched their boobs. like how sex maniac is that relatively. also he hates women because his brother died while trying to convince a girl to show him her panties. yeah man sure that's the logical step
