 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1972 Italian giallo film Who saw her die and when I watched this I watched it on the Blu-ray put out by aero video Looks good. It's a good clean looking version and this is a pretty good film I didn't know what to expect with a lot of the giallo films I'm seeing for the first time like this one. I kind of go in just expecting I'll enjoy it enough because I haven't come across that many giallo films that I've been like I hate that so It I expect a certain degree of happiness with the film But with this one it went a little bit higher for me and I really really did enjoy it I think it's a well-done film and yeah excited to talk about it here So like I said from 1972 who saw her die was directed by Aldo Lotto Who also did short night of glass dolls, which I like a lot So he now has two giallo films. I've seen that I really enjoyed I also have a review for short short night of glass dolls on my channel that you can check out in addition to an entire playlist of just a bunch of giallo reviews I think this is my 49th review giallo review to add to that. So just saying He also did the humanoid circle of fear and dark Friday just to name a few of the horror-ish films This was written by Francesco Burri li who also did sacrifice Hotel fear and the perfume of the lady in black, which I also have a review for on my channel you can check that out and Massimo Diavac who wrote scripts for dark purpose the labyrinth of sex so sweet so perverse Which I also have a review for on my channel and sacrifice This stars as you may know or not know George Lazenby as Franco the main character now may some people may say oh George Lazenby He was a bond Very short-lived, but he was James Bond for one film and that was on her Majesty's Secret Service I'm a huge James Bond fan by the way I have almost every James Bond film back of my collection over here. It's even further over, but Yeah, love it. So when I saw Lazenby was in this I was like oh a bond. How cool Lazenby was also in such stuff as eyes of the beholder the evil inside me in Gettysburg just named some of the bigger ones The score by this is by Aenea Moricone Who if you know Jialo and you're familiar with the music Aenea Moricone does the best of the best score wise I think he did a really good job on this one the only thing is that That main theme song the one that mainly comes up when someone is going to get killed or someone is potentially going to get killed Really gets annoying kind of fast in my opinion Especially when it's on the main menu of the Blu-ray and they just keep playing that song on loop If you just let it go it will drive you freaking insane But I think the song is very well constructed and does exactly what it's supposed to do Which is kind of build up tension build up an unsettling feeling Because it is a very unsettling song with kind of like the kids singing that's done on like an echo loop It sounds messed up Very much so so he did a good job with that. This film was also titled the child Which I think who saw her die is a better title than the child. So I'm glad to call it that instead It's kind of an odd choice to start the film with no music or anything Showing this kind of snowy ski resort town, which is where it takes place, but I Don't know what the purpose of that was like I Understand that you're showing like a beautiful setting and maybe that was kind of the main purpose of opening it that way But to have no music at all just felt like a really really odd choice to me I don't know why It didn't look super realistic But the murder of Nicole the very first murder that happens with the girl who was sledding and then gets grabbed by the veiled Killer and then is beaten in the head with a rock It doesn't look it because the the kill didn't look that realistic But it is a brutal kill if you really consider what's going on there within the story that is really really Pretty disturbing and brutal. So it is a good way to kind of set up the film in my opinion Interesting idea to show the killer's POV through that black pattern veil now The other thing that consider though is that it's not always Just the killer's POV through that veil because when the body of Nicole is then found You see that veil as well So they use it a little bit extra, but I think it's mainly meant to kind of Signify the killer's point of view and I like that touch. I really do You know shooting the camera right through that veil very very cool and the pattern is Very discernible so that whenever you see it your you know, your mind goes right back to okay This is the veil the killer was wearing Also interesting to show the cold case file for Nicole's murder during the opening credits I thought that was a really interesting way to do opening credits I've not seen any other films at least not from this time period do that as they're just kind of flipping the pages of The cold case file Very cool very great way to start things and I think it sets it up to show you This is a cold case at this point where we're taking the story to start from Introduction of an early red herring with Philip who are Philippe who says he cut his face while he was fencing He shows up to talk to Franco and Kuman in the very beginning and he's got that very discernible red mark on his face and he was like, oh I was fencing this morning and I just got Just got nicked. So that's obviously supposed to be there to Implant itself into the mind of the audience to make them a bit suspicious of him immediately Because the murder had literally just happened So you're looking for suspects in a sense and it seems very suspicious that they would point that out and focus on It so much, but that's what they do with yellow Obviously, they like to throw out a lot of red herrings and they do throw out a good amount in this Also a red herring is Kuman who acts like an unbelievable creep when he's at Franco's place and Roberta is there and she's looking at photos of her mother with the projector And he's just like ogling the photos of her mother Elizabeth, but then also like Interacting with her in a very creepy way if you know what I mean And I guarantee that that's just put in there as a way to kind of cast suspicion on him as well Red herring once again. So yeah, I think it works because I was immediately like there is something not right with this guy now they don't Excuse me, they don't revisit any sort of activity like that or any personality traits like that for Kuman It's just a one-time thing. So I guarantee it wasn't really supposed to be like a part of his character personality It was just supposed to be red herring for the most part The echoing children singing when shot. Yeah, sorry. I already talked about this It does bear repeating though very unsettling music with the kids singing and it's just like on repeat Um, so Franco just leaves his kid unsupervised so he can bone Gabriela who really doesn't show up again in the film At least not in any sort of meaningful way You just know that there's a setup for Roberto's demise at this point because Why else would they be making a point of showing him? You know going to have sex unless there's something important about his relationship with Roberta or I'm sorry Gabriela Which there isn't and obviously there's not anything all that important about his relationship with her Roberta his own daughter because he just leaves her like that, which is weird But yeah, you do see it coming especially when you know, you're watching a giallo film here because That's kind of how these setups are for the most part is just here it comes a unaccompanied minor Although she was around her friends, so she should have been fine for a little bit You got to love the transition from the killer work walking up to Roberta to the hanging meat Obviously kind of a statement of her being killed and her becoming dead meat without actually showing it happening So that it really is an interesting way to kind of do that to Not have to show the brutality of it But give you the idea of the brutality of it that she has been reduced to a to meet to a corpse So I think that was it worked it worked. It worked well It's pretty creepy when you see all the people staring blank and emotionless at Roberta's floating body when her body is found I don't know what the reasoning for that was but I think maybe it could have been some sort of Some sort of indicator of kind of house how Emotionless and blank society is when things like this actually happen and how they're kind of like cold to it I don't know if that was intentional or not But you know, maybe there was something there it would just seem like a weird creepy moment though Just all those people stay standing there staring at a dead body with like no emotion whatsoever Just like oh, there it is dead body Cool to see glass blowing featured in this film That's just a little side note for me personally because I think glass blowing is an amazing fascinating art and When you have just kind of like interesting little things thrown into Jallofilms, which happens a lot I thought this was a really cool kind of interesting a little bit to throw in there That's when Franco goes to talk to the father of the girl who he finds out was murdered In the same town kind of in the same way He's a glass blower, so I just like that. I think Franco messed up when he starts out Outwardly accusing I'm gonna mess up this this name Bonnet bonnet uti bonnet uti the guy with the glasses and all the birds He immediately just starts like talking about him as a child molester and Accusing him and getting pretty aggressive about it. I mean, obviously he was there to try and get information on the previous murder But That's not the way to come it's someone if you're trying to get information You know obviously at that point for the audience It seems like he's potentially a suspect probably for Franco as well at that point But if he was really looking to just like get the information he would have gone about it a much more You know even keel way to try and pull that info out But he really had a wall put up immediately when he started coming at him so aggressively like that But you know he was distraught all that stuff. It makes sense. He lashing out They did fake me out with the maid cleaning the bathroom scene when Elizabeth is by herself Well, we think by herself, but then Kuman shows up when Elizabeth is by herself in that apartment at least initially and then You think that they're kind of setting up because that they're the gloved hands and the water's being run And she's kind of creeping around the house trying to figure out what's going on and then all of a sudden Oh, no, it's just the maid and she was just gonna clean the bathroom. They got me on that one I really thought Elizabeth was about to get killed at that point It did it definitely felt like a typical kind of setup for the killer to kill someone So good job on that. They got me on that one because there are plenty of Jala films where that's the same type of setup And here we go Jenevra telling Franco she needs to tell him something, but she she'd tell him that night Instead of right then sealed her fate As you know, if you've seen enough giallo if someone says that they have information But they can't say it right then and they'll tell later. They're dead. They will be dead very soon Every giallo film I've ever seen cannot think of any Exceptions to it every time someone says I have information, but I'll tell you later They're getting it for sure. And that's what happens to Jenevra How was Jenevra killed in a theater filled with people though? That's one of the big things the fact that the killer comes in and strangles her to death I question why there was so much blood coming out of her mouth, but I mean it looked good Sits behind her when they're they even show there are tons of people in that theater just sits behind her chokes her to death I don't understand how that happened. That's a very Unrealistic thing to throw in the film, but hey, it's giallo. Joe does a lot of that type of stuff It's fine But I have to point it out. I love the way they shot the stabbing of Bonnie Ote The guy with the birds again and the glasses Really great way that they shot that how they show They showed like the camera close-up of the gloved hand picking the knife up and then kind of like following as the glove Hand has the knife and then all the way to like the stabbing and then like the close-up and the further back of the actual stabbing Great intense scene. I think it adds so much to it and the way they blend the music into it as well Great intense scene. I really enjoyed that one It slightly does heart harken back to the scenes with the pigeons in the beginning too though Because if you notice in the beginning of the film, they showed twice all these pigeons kind of like flying around and swirling around a guy who I think was Feeding them. I'm not a hundred percent sure but the fact that all the birds are out after Bonnie Ote Sorry messed up his name again How his All his birds were out after he was killed and it's just a cool scene where it's like the shot from further out of his dead Body laying there with the birds just kind of flying all around and that harkens back I think to those pigeon moments, which is very interesting Just a good kind of like visual callback in my opinion The camera work in the abandoned building when Franco's being followed is particularly amazing That camera work looks really really cool Especially when they first show that kind of longer shot of Franco kind of like walking through it just looks so cool And frames things really really well Especially the shot from above that pans up. It's like shooting from above showing Franco walking and then he's being followed by someone and then it pans up and you see that seraph Seraphion. Yeah, Seraphion is standing on the level above him like looking down watching just such cool camera work It's so engaging. It's so good in general the camera work cinematography directing in this film really really good in my opinion loved it I Did François watches what amounts to porn videos with his mother in it? When he was showing that to Franco, I mean I understand he was kind of watching those to get clues To kind of solve what happened to his mother who the killer was but at the same time like he doesn't need to watch him numerous times He can also just set it up and let Franco watch it because he's literally like watching porn With his mother in it. So just another another weird thing in a giola film not surprising I like how Seraphion's body is slowly revealed by the door creaking open and Him kind of stabbed to the door That was when Franco was sneaking into that house and then all of a sudden the door behind him just kind of like creaks open and Seraphion's like hanging from the door because he's been stabbed through cool reveal for the body really enjoyed that The frantic camera movements when Elizabeth is being pursued helps increase the tense moments That's something that gets used a lot especially in these giola films where you know The killer's coming after someone and they do a lot of kind of like rough movements with the camera I think that kind of helps to translate the Intensity of the moment and and the mood and what's going on there And it just really just increased in the intensity for for the audience. So it works Man father James went down in a blaze of glory if you get the joke When he gets set on fire and then goes flying out the window, I don't understand why they kept Like re-showing him falling a certain amount It did get a little repetitive and weird But then the moment where like he finally falls all the way and that's just kind of like thud And you're just like yep burning body. That was cool moment. I enjoyed that The ending with Cuman saying father James was an imposter Could be a way to deflect backlash Akin to what Luchio Fulci's don't torture and duckling ended up generating This is just a speculation on my part or it could have been a statement about false religious figures Because obviously father James was the killer in this situation But then that tacked on thing at the end where Cuman's like, oh, they said that father James was an imposter He wasn't even a priest. I don't I'm wondering if the reasoning for that was to say You never really know who you're following from a religious figure standpoint And they could be a total false prophet because obviously father James was very involved in that church and very involved in the community Or if it was a situation where Aldolotto just kind of wanted that thrown in there or one of the script writers in order to deflect The ire that it would draw from people like the film by Fulci don't torture a duckling did who who had a killer Priest in it and got a lot of flak a lot of flak for that So I don't know if that was their way to do it to be like Oh, you might be pissed off right now because it was father James But guess what here's our way out of it. It wasn't that he wasn't actually a religious figure. He was an imposter So I don't know you can let me know your thoughts in the comments. Just a speculation on my part Nice directing and cinematography lots of interesting panning shots That's one of the things with a lot of the Jala films of this time period the Italian ones is that they Typically have very engaging camera work and that includes a lot of very interesting panning shots Very interesting ways of moving with characters around characters shooting through objects to Show characters and there's a lot of that great camera work in this They cover a lot of ground in the city and they use buildings to frame shots in very interesting ways This is another thing that I find in Jala films a lot that I love is really good use of the cityscape and the architecture And it's beautiful. It's fascinating and it's beautiful and whenever they're kind of using the structure of the building like they do a good amount in this film, but most Probably the best example being like I was talking about that abandoned building that Franco walks into like they literally use The structure to like frame the shot of Franco walking in it Just very very interesting very cool looking and I always love that in Jala films So that's all I have to say about who saw her die. Like I said, I enjoyed this one It's not the best, but it is good. So out of five stars with half stars in play I'm gonna give it a very solid three and a half star rating I enjoyed this one would love to hear your thoughts on it though. Go ahead and put it in the comments Love it hate it in the middle Or just if you want to talk about Jala in general also do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button if you're not already Rescribed subscribed if you are already. Thank you very much. It helps motivate me to keep going. 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