 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1977 Italian giallo film watch me when I kill and if there's one thing that I like about giallo films It's that they get into the kills quickly and this film actually does that Doesn't mean that this is like the best or even in my top giallo films But it was okay And I will say with what the end of the film ended up being That made me feel even better about the film than I was feeling going into the ending of it It doesn't get heavy though. That's the crazy thing So I did watch this through giallo realm on YouTube so you can check that out There's a lot of giallo on that YouTube channel This one's directed by Antonio Bito who also directed blue tornado and the blood stain shadow Which I will be doing a review on the blood stain shadow at some point probably soon Written by Bito as well as Roberto Natal Who also who wrote scripts for the Seven Revenges terror creatures from the grave Bloody pit of horror kill baby kill, which is one of my favorites Italian film wise one of my favorites and I think potentially the best Mario Bava film out ever made so the fact that he was involved with that script says a lot and Twisted girls and then Vittorio Chiraldi is also involved with this he wrote diamonds are a man's best friend. She and he and blue nude Who knew this is also known as terror in the lagoon and the vote of death I think that watching me when I kill sounds better, but at the same time does it really tie into the film? Not really, but that's okay So right off the bat Santori the pharmacist assistant is such a creepy dude that I Immediately thought this guy's so creepy this guy's so sketchy so suspicious that he's obviously supposed to be one of the Big red herrings if not the biggest red herring in there and that ends up being a case Although there are a lot of red herring individuals that do get thrown out there I think Dizon ends up being the second big one that kind of shows up here But Santori is obviously the very first one and then they have well I'll talk about that in a little bit the scene with Dizon and Santori, but I'll talk about that Pretty quick kill for Dizon Doesn't look great either Yeah, oh no, I didn't mean Dizon. I meant Bozzy as the other big red herring. Yeah, Dizon's the pharmacist who gets killed early on Real quick kill for Dizon. It didn't look good. It wasn't a really good kill It was kind of quick I like everything leading up to that kill how he was kind of like alone in his pharmacy and kind of like Pacing around there was a good tension to it and then he gets nailed But you know the whack on the head was super fast the blade across the throat looked terrible basically But you know it was the 70s. What do you what do you expect? They introduced a lot of characters very quick But this is actually a very perfect way for them to have the killer get lost in the shovel Which is obviously what exactly what they do I feel like introducing so many characters like kind of rapid fire was definitely their way to Slip Karlo in there real quick. Karlo was with McKellay And they were pitching a script basically and it made me think I was very suspicious of Karlo Because he made some weird comments kind of like something about Mara being like the big star and kind of looks he was giving her and how fixated he was on her I kind of had a feeling that he would end up being the killer Also with like I was saying introducing so many characters real quick and the fact that McKellay and Karlo We're just kind of thrown in there real quick with something that seemed like it didn't really matter at all And then they were gone for a while for a long while So I was thinking back to that and I'm just like it's got to be Karlo And I was right it was Karlo But it also wasn't that simple which is why I like the ending because I did guess ultimately the actual killer but I didn't guess all the motive who could have seen that coming really and the somewhat involvement of Karlo's father the judge who actually doesn't even have a name in this. He's just known on IMDB as judge So yeah The song that starts playing when the killer is moving in on Mara I swear I've heard another giallo films before but it could just be because it's a kind of goblin-esque rip-off And that's probably why it sounds so good, too I mean the score in this in general sounds good and I kind of wish we would have gotten more scores for Italian film and giallo films in particular from the people who did this You with trans Europa Express was the name of that group and it's like two people made it up And I think this was the only film they did a score for actually But like I said, I wish they had been in more because they rip off goblin and it sounds wonderful. I love it This is this does have a good score and I'm I'm happy about that Such a weird shot of Esmeralda looking up at Lucas when they first meet in the hallway at the apartment complex When Esmeralda's with Bozy They keep showing her face like uncomfortably close The first time is when Esmeralda ends up meeting Lucas and obviously Mara's with him But like it's like the super close-up on her face and she like looks up and then when she's in the apartment with Bozy It's then done numerous times, too, and it's just like a weird shot. It's too close I don't know what the point of it was and that kind of goes to another thing with this film in general The directing and cinematography isn't the best like it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination There are you know a few visual flares that get thrown in in there here and there and some good cinematography from time to time But when you when you think about Geolo films and a lot of the Geolo films that have you know Persisted over time and people know about they look really good. There's great directing. There's great cinematography So this one in comparison ends up standing out as not being that great It's not that it's bad. It's just that the other ones are so good They look so great that when this one's closer on the average side, it just kind of in comparison doesn't look so hot So yeah The scene trying to decipher the audio recording. I thought was pretty cool. I'm always looking for some sort of like Interesting scene in a Geolo film that I haven't seen anywhere before Like the one of the ones I did recently I forget which one it was where they had the glass blowing happening like it just seemed like it was something interesting They just throw in there and Geolo's just keep doing that They'll have some sort of scene that like didn't need to be in the film necessarily but they do it because it's kind of interesting and the Going through the audio deciphering what's going on there kind of seemed like that was one of those scenes But it was cool. I liked it. I thought it was interesting and something different I dig the shot of when Elsa Morelta was walking down her hallway, and then you see the shadowy figure leaning against the wall behind her Obviously we end up finding out that that's a coat rack and like a trench coat with a hat on top In the dark, but it looked cool. It looks cool, and I thought it would actually end up being the killer I kind of wished it was but still a good, you know solid fake out that they have going on there As Morelta leaves a message that she needs to talk to Bozy By Geolo rules, she then has to die and as we know she ends up dying and it's in the interesting fashion too much like Bozy Giovanni later He gets an interesting death she gets an even more interesting death in my opinion because she gets her face Just like repeatedly shoved into into Scalding food with the the oven door open I thought he was just gonna like hold her head in the oven and bake the whole head But the fact that it just keeps going in the food I guess works too and that just burned her up and killed her I don't know if that would be the case, but you know if you do it long enough I guess he could have suffocated her too because there was plenty of liquid in that pan just saying With how vague the meeting of Giovanni and Santorri is it makes you believe it's just to drum up suspicion I think that truly was the situation. That's basically a Lot before you end up finding out that Bozy Giovanni is I'll just keep calling him Bozy Bozy is basically a loan shark and that's why he was meeting with Santorri But they show the scene without that context So it truly was there to make it look like something very suspicious is going on So to kind of make you be like look Bozy's very suspicious right now Santorri is very suspicious for now right now It could be either of these guys they could be one of the killers or they could be in league together So I think that works to kind of you know throw the suspicion So the person trying to kill Bozy was going to beat him to death with a wrench through his car This seems like a thin idea the one where Mara's kind of moving the car for Bozy in the parking garage and then all of a sudden the wrench comes out and Starts bashing the windows and she wrecks his car after saying she wouldn't get a scratch on it, which I thought was funny So that was the plan for the killer just like wrench him to death through the car It just seems like a thin plan. It seems like it wouldn't really work And so I think they thought the idea of like the wrench You know messing up the car would look cool and that's probably how they got to that But it just this doesn't seem like a good plan as far as the killer goes. I like how Lucas spots a potential motive and then just makes a very very base assumption immediately that Ferrante would end up being the killer because of his trial and The fact that people who are on the jury are getting killed obviously later We find out that's because the judge was trying to put names to faces to figure out who it was Who sold his family out to the Nazis? Which is a very interesting twist And then the coffee cup where he realizes that Ferrante is not the killer. I don't really I couldn't really follow that It seemed very half-baked where he's gonna like oh no It's not Ferrante because when I was at his place there were two coffee cups and they were sitting like this and his wife Was was grabbing it with her right hand and then somehow that means that he's left-handed. I was like I don't I mean You could point it out to me if I just kind of missed it or didn't pick up on her. I'm being too dense But put it in the comments. I don't I didn't get that that was like a weird thing. I don't know When Mara is looking at costumes at the cabaret to pick out what she's gonna wear in that kind of like adic-y looking place Note that there was a duck painted on the wall behind her I'm thinking this is kind of a nod to Lucio Fulci films Don't torture duckling as well as the New York Ripper which features that exact looking duck Heavily in those films and they have ties to the killers in both those films So I thought that was a cool kind of Easter egg that's thrown in there I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it seems like it probably would be to me just saying Nice misdirection with the killer murdering Paolo instead of Mara in that area where she's looking at the costumes I thought for sure that he was coming for Mara, but he ends up killing Paolo But was that intentional? I don't know because they never talk about what what had happened with Paolo they kind of talk about like Esmerelda and Bozy and Dishon, you know them actually having ties to the whole Nazi situation But they don't talk about Paolo. It kind of seems like maybe he was just an innocent bystander Like maybe he just happened to see Carlo. Oh or actually this just dawned on me It's quite possible that he was mad because Paolo had closeness with Mara because Carlo does talk about Wanting to be with Mara like having interest in Mara to some degree. So Just throwing that out there Bozy's tub strangling scene is pretty drawn out. Although it is shot Well, I do believe I think it goes on too long But I think kind of the quick shots and like the close-ups and the flailing and everything Really does make it seem more violent. So the fact that they were able to bring that through the screen I think does work quite well. I'm a fan of that nice random madman in the rundown building when What's his name? I'm not even referencing him much Lucas I haven't referenced him much When Lucas is going around looking for he was supposed to meet up with someone at that point He goes into his band of building and there's just random madman like speaking gibberish and then laughing at him And then the window falls out of the building and I was just like, okay, just random But it was fun. I like how Lucas just walks right into the sister's place and Starts poking around and nobody stops him eventually someone does say something one of the caretakers I believe but this is when he was poking around trying to get that information he eventually gets about The family being given up to the Nazis who were hiding out there But the fact that you just like walks in there were a lot of people Hanging out in the main room there and they don't say anything to him and then he just starts poking around the house. It's like okay Not a bad twist to have Ferrante show up and appear to be after Mara when he's actually there to keep her safe I do think that was an interesting kind of like quick red herring that goes on there You're like, oh no, it's Ferrante and then you're like, oh no, he's trying to save Mara But then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense why he would be helping Lucas really I guess we're supposed to just believe that from the one scene that Lucas and Ferrante were in together That they became friends all of a sudden friends so much so that Ferrante would just be like You want me to stand outside in the dark and watch over your home so that no one comes after this woman sure It's weird. It's it doesn't it doesn't make sense But that you know, that's Geolo and a lot of Geolo things just happened just because often Wow, the ending was heavy stuff The judge stacking the jury to see the faces of the people who wanted to go after him after his After them for giving up his family to the Nazis. I didn't see that coming. Like I said, it got heavy Like I didn't see that coming. I'm sure nobody who sees this for the first time really sees all that coming But I mean, that's heavy material to throw in there like anytime you introduce Nazis into the situation, especially in a situation like this where it was Nazi sympathizers sympathizers that gave up a family that was then taken away to concentration camps and murdered Because that's what the noises were that Carlo had left on Bosie's Answering machine or no that he had called him with and Bosie had recorded was like the sounds of a concentration camp I think it was like a a train going and then the dobermans at the concentration camp and just That was supposed to jog his memory is like a you know why I'm coming after you type thing So it's heavy It was I wasn't expecting that and that maybe appreciate the film even more because they were willing to go there and Do something more serious when the film didn't seem as serious if that makes sense Depressing ending though the ultimate ending is depressing where when the judge makes the call to shoot his son Carlo And then shoot himself in the head and it's like these are the only two survivors from that whole situation and I guess that the shame that the judge feels from the fact that Carlo Took what he was going to do and try and bring these people to justice through the courts But taken into his own hands and actually murder He just was so shamed by it that he Killed Carlo and then killed himself because well he probably killed himself because one his role in kind of enabling Carlo to a degree and just feeling that guilt but also to Just that the awful feeling of just killing your own son. I mean any I get he just couldn't live with that so Just a pressing what a depressing ending I can't think of a more depressing giallo ending than that right now Although maybe you can so you can put it down in the comments and let me know Like I said really dig the music which wish the trans Europa Express had done more They threw a lot of random suspicious looking guys in this film Which makes the guessing more fun in my opinion like I said I did kind of guess on Carlo But there were times after I had initially seen Carlo where I was like well, maybe this person I will maybe this person in the end I did settle back on Carlo But the fact that you go through that and you're like well, maybe this well, maybe this like that's the whole point You know, you're supposed to second-guess yourself You're supposed to at least for a little bit consider these other characters and that's why there are so many characters in it So many suspicious looking characters as well But if you've ever seen giallo before you know that it's never the characters who seem suspicious That's always the characters in the end who don't really seem suspicious Maybe they get a little bit suspicious here or there but not to any big degree Lots of giallo films have real artistic flair with the directing but not this one that does bear repeating because like I said It stands out. It's just not looking nearly as great as other giallo films But that said I mean I enjoyed it I enjoyed it like I said once the twist happens at the end and the ending how it is How heavy it is how emotional it is how depressing it is made me appreciate it even more and like it even more so Made me upgrade it to a three out of five stars and that is with half stars in play So three out of five stars for watch me when I kill Enjoy it would love to hear from you all your thoughts on watch me when I kill go ahead and put it down in the comments Oh, also something I need to say really quick since this was in 1977. This is significantly past The prime popularity of giallo. I mean the prime giallo kind of died out around 1974 so this is coming like three years after giallo had kind of died out as being popular So it's just kind of interesting to see these ones that came later. I think maybe part of the reason that They felt like they could do this one is because they did have this this interesting Different ending with making it so heavy about the Nazi sympathizers. So Yeah solid stuff, but like I said would love to hear your opinions on this but just any giallo in general as well Do me a quick favor though hit that subscribe button if you haven't already it takes you a second It's totally painless, and it really means a lot to me We're building this nerdy horror community right here, and you're keeping me motivated when you subscribe Truly you are and it shows you appreciate what I'm doing So anyway, do thank you for taking your time to watch this and until next time keep it brutal