Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
- police
- psychopath
- homicide
- child murder
- forest
- murder
- reporter
- whodunit
- orphan
- church
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Florinda Bolkan
Maciara
Barbara Bouchet
Patrizia
Tomas Milian
Andrea Martelli
Irene Papas
Dona Aurelia Avallone
- Marc Porel — Don Alberto Avallone
- Georges Wilson — Francesco
- Antonello Campodifiori — Police Lieutenant
- Ugo D'Alessio — Captain Modesti
- Virgilio Gazzolo — Police Commissioner
- Vito Passeri — Giuseppe Barra
- Rosalia Maggio — Mrs. Spriano - Michele's Mother
- Andrea Aureli — Mr. Lo Cascio, Bruno's Father
- Franco Balducci — Mr. Spriano, Michele's Father
- John Bartha — Policeman (uncredited)
- Duilio Cruciani — Mario (uncredited)
- Directed
- Lucio Fulci
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 422 ratings
- Studio
- Medusa Produzione
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