DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER

A mad doctor, who tries to bring the dead back to life, manages to resurrect a woman who died in childbirth, who then avenges her own death by killing the entire family of her lover... First film by the late Joe D'Amato (who, for the first and only time in his long career, signs the film with his given name Aristide Massaccesi) who debuts with a good giallo - horror that, despite some apparent inconsistencies and numerous dark passages, unfolds pleasantly through a chain of bloody crimes and various atrocities until the "strange" and disturbing ending. The protagonists (including the great Klaus Kinski) certainly give a hand to the debuting Massaccesi, who already directs this film with discreet technique and security. A film definitely worth discovering.