Marco Castellini
•A mad killer massacres two little girls; a boy with mental problems is accused of the horrible crime, but one of the policemen in charge of the investigation is not at all convinced of his guilt. The murders of young boys continue, and the detective, with the help of his enterprising son, sets out again on the trail of the mad killer. An anonymous thriller-horror born in the wake of the enormous international success of “Silence of the Lambs” (have you read the title…) but which, compared to Demme’s masterpiece, doesn’t even have the right to be compared. After the good initial sequence (the one with the murder of the two little girls), the film inexorably loses its way, crippled by a discontinuous rhythm and, above all, by little credible characters; starting with the “detective” boy whom you will learn to hate after his first lines, ending with the religious fanatic mad killer, a “macchietta” character who, instead of inspiring terror, barely manages to make you smile. The advice is obvious: avoid it.
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