Killer Without a Face (1968) follows a young architect who arrives at a secluded castle to oversee its renovation for a noble family. As he observes the strange behavior of the castle’s mentally unstable owner and those living within the estate, a suspicious death and further murders deepen the mystery surrounding the property. This Italian horror thriller blends gothic atmosphere, psychological instability, and isolated-location murder intrigue.
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This very obscure thriller starts off on a promising note with a stylishly executed stalk and kill sequence, complete with subjective camerawork, as well as an unusual credits sequence with the actors’ faces superimposed next to the names of the characters they are playing, but it soon becomes bogged down in talk, talk and more talk. The setting and moody black-and-white cinematography ensure a few atmospheric moments, but on the whole Killer Without a Face is deserving of the obscurity it has attained.
Troy Howarth, So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, Volume 1, 1963-1973 (Midnight Marquee Press, 2015)
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