While I find Lucio Fulci to be a bit over-rated by fans of Eurotrash cinema in general he is, at least, a director who left his mark on cinema and made some quite memorable entries into the horror genre. This not very stylish giallo deals with a bunch of children being murdered which is some pretty sordid subject matter. It might have been a bit more shocking though if all the kids in this weren't such repulsive perverts. I mean the ugly little weirdos main interests seem to be prostitutes and smoking from what we are shown. Not that this is any reason to murder them but exactly how bad are we supposed to feel when they end up strangled to death by an unknown assailant? The kid-killing does take place mostly off-screen. Fulci, as is usual for him, saves all the hardcore violence for his female characters. A particularly rough scene of Florinda Balkan as an insane witchy character being beaten to near death with chains by the local vigilantes might be tough for many to sit through. The standout scene for me happens at the climax though where we see one of the worst looking dummies(or in this case probably a mannequin!) fall off a cliff and sparks fly out of it's head as it falls down and hits some rocks. It makes whatever slow bits there are here worthwhile.
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