Dir. Lucio Fulci
Starring Florinda Bolkan, Marc Porel, Irene Papas, Tomas Milian, Barbara Bouchet, George Wilson.
After the disappearance of a young boy a small town in remote Southern Italy is thrown into turmoil as, after four days of extensive searching, no sign of the boy can be found. The only clue to the child’s whereabouts comes in the form of a ransom note sent to the village priest Don Alberto (Marc Porel). As the police are going over the details of the note a newspaper reporter, Andrea Martelli (Tomas Milian), notices that there’s something flawed about the ransom demand, specifically that the money being demanded by the would be kidnapper is ridiculously low. The money is sent to the location as per the demand in the note and sure enough Giuseppe, the village idiot, is caught picking up the money. Soon the body of the boy is found and Giuseppe cracks and admits to making the ransom demands but denies killing the boy, saying he merely found the body in the woods. Even though Giuseppe has more or less confessed the chief of the murder investigation starts to have doubts as to whether he actually did murder the boy and soon enough the corpse of another young boy is found…
