Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

Director
Lucio Fulci

Main cast
Florinda Bolkan; Barbara Bouchet; Tomás Milián; Irene Papas; Marc Porel

Genres
Horror

Description
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.


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