Who Saw Her Die?

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Who Saw Her Die?

#1 Post by domino harvey » Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:22 pm

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Former Bond star George Lazenby (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Man from Hong Kong) headlines this classic giallo directed by Aldo Lado (Short Night of Glass Dolls, Night Train Murders) ¬–as compelling for its haunting atmosphere, twists and turns as for its parallels with another great Venetian horror/thriller – Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now.

Sculptor Franco Serpieri (Lazenby) welcomes Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi, Deep Red) – his young daughter from a failed marriage – to Venice, unaware that a disturbed child-killer is stalking the city’s canals. When Roberta’s body is found floating face-down in the river, the lives of Franco and his estranged wife Elizabeth (Anita Strindberg, The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail) are ripped asunder. Desperate for vengeance, Franco turns detective in a bid to track down his daughter’s killer, and in the process unearths shocking evidence of depravity and corruption which implicates some of the most respected figures in Venetian society.

Released at the height of the giallo boom, this gripping mystery thriller boasts some of the most iconic names associated with the genre on both sides of the camera. Co-starring Dominique Boschero (The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire) and Adolfo Celi (Thunderball), and featuring one of the all-time greatest scores from maestro Ennio Morricone (What Have You Done to Solange?), Who Saw Her Die? thrills anew in its high definition debut.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• Brand new 2K restoration of the full-length Italian version of the film from the original 35mm camera negative

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation

• Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio

• Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits

• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack

• New audio commentary by author and critic Travis Crawford

• I Saw Her Die, a new video interview with director Aldo Lado

• Nicoletta, Child of Darkness, a new video interview with actress Nicoletta Elmi

• Once Upon a Time in Venice, a new video interview with co-writer Francesco Barilli

• Giallo in Venice, a new video interview with author and critic Michael Mackenzie

• Original Italian and English theatrical trailers

• Poster and fotobusta gallery

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love


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Re: Who Saw Her Die?

#3 Post by Banasa » Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:49 pm

Looking at the poster in that link above, does the guy holding the knife have an extra finger?

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Re: Who Saw Her Die?

#4 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:40 pm

And here's the trailer. Who Saw Her Die? is an excellent film and its relative obscurity I can only put down to the way that it is very similar to Don't Look Now, which came out the following year and perhaps overwhelmed this film in its wake. In its themes of parental guilt in the wake of the death of their daughter leading to a kind of recklessly dangerous searching for answers, and its general 'creepy Venice' vibe, it really runs the Roeg film a very close second.

Its probably George Lazenby's best role, and I remember we talked on the horror thread a while back about Nicoletta Elmi, who plays the daughter and had a number of great child roles during this period:
This might also be the best time to praise Nicoletta Elmi, who plays Lazenby's murdered daughter in this film - after a brief appearance as one of the girls in Death In Venice (overlooked by Bogarde in favour of Tadzio!) she had quite a few important roles as a child actress in 70s Italian horror cinema, from A Bay of Blood, Baron Blood and Footprints through to Deep Red and one of the creepy mute children in Flesh For Frankenstein. Plus one of the Italian films inspired by The Exorcist, The Night Child. One of her final roles was all grown up as the usher in Demons.

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Re: Who Saw Her Die?

#5 Post by dwk » Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:18 am

The Travis Crawford commentary has been dropped and replaced by a commentary by Troy Howarth

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