TORSO (1973)

A little boy sees his friend fall off a cliff because a little girl asks him to get her doll so, naturally, he grows up to become a serial killer who kills both men and women and compares them to dolls.  You can probably tell by that description you're not dealing with a film that makes much logical sense but as far as giallo flicks go this isn't the worst you could sit through.  It moves along well enough even if director Sergio Martino is never anywhere near as stylish as a Dario Argento or Mario Bava.  Certain scenes are well shot though and there's plenty of nice use of the Italian countryside.  Speaking of nice scenery I think this film is probably most memorable to me for the abundance of naked females on display including a nudie hippie dance/orgy scene which was nice.  You would, with a name like TORSO, think this film would be packed with gore which I guess for the time it was made it is.  You get a head smashed by a  car, bloody eye gouging of a dead body, hacking up of dead bodies but most of the actual killing is done by strangling with a scarf so nothing very splattery there.  Watch it anyway though for some proto-slasher, stylized, bare-assed fun if that's your thing and it should be unless your a boring person.