If you liked this:
You'll LOVE "La casa dalle finestre che ridono" (1975) D. Pupi Avati
I was reminded of this movie, which I saw in my British and Italian Horror class, when I heard the news that the Pope had excommunicated the Mafia. La Casa is a somewhat non-traditional giallo, a 20s/30s period production that takes place in in a rural community rather than in the fashion/tourist/modernist worlds that we're accustomed to in Bava and Argento. Further, the film seems to touch upon social issues within its small, insular, and secretive southern (italian) town (like the southern-feeling New England town in Let's Scare Jessica To Death) where the protagonist feels estranged, and that is controlled by a tiny mayor and cabal dressed in gangsterish 30's garb. Are they the Black Hand? I have to revisit it but here's a completely different take on the movie in an article from Bright Lights Film Journal that focuses on the image of St. Sebastian revealed through the restoration of a religious artifact. (btw--this is the same job that lands Donald Sutherland in Venice in Don't Look Now...)
The italian trailer:
The subtitled trailer has this ugly frame:
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