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A classic tale of the perverse from director Lucio Fulci.
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.
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Don't Torture a Duckling
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Fureur Meurtrière, The Long Night of Exorcism, Не тортуй каченя, O Estranho Segredo do Bosque dos Sonhos, O Estranho Segredo da Floresta dos Sonhos, Don't torture a Duckling, Angustia de silencio, La Longue Nuit de l'exorcisme, Quäle nie ein Kind zum Scherz, Ne zaklasd a kiskacsát!, 别动酷刑, Не измъчвай патока, Nie torturuj kaczuszki, Не катуй каченя, O Segredo do Bosque dos Sonhos, Kauhujen kylä, Muka neviňátek, Муки невинных, マッキラー, Σατανάδες της ακολασίας
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Intense violence and sexual transgression Thrillers and murder mysteries Horror, the undead and monster classics Crime, drugs and gangsters Gory, gruesome, and slasher horror Graphic violence and brutal revenge Twisted dark psychological thriller Intriguing and suspenseful murder mysteries Suspenseful crime thrillers Show All…
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23 May 2000
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29 Sep 1972
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14 Aug 2017
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A wicked rural nightmare. A child killer death spree gialli of the most depressing nature, trading bright light cityscapes for small town paranoia... complete with angry villagers, forensic journalists, witchcraft, a Donald Duck head, Barbara Bouchet, and the most brutal cemetery chain flogging ever as Fulci puts Italian traditionalism and the Catholic Church under a microscope.
This is top tier Fulci as far as I’m concerned, expertly crafted and soundwaved by a perfect Riz Ortolani score. Gets bleaker (and better) every time I watch it.
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Fulci said "hey what's up with Catholic church and all these abused and dead kids? 👁️"
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Yes.... ashamed that I'm just now seeing this. But glad I waited because the Arrow Video 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray is quite lovely.
- New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- The Blood of Innocents, a new video discussion with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
- Every (Wo)man Their Own Hell, a new video essay by critic Kat Ellinger
- Interviews with co-writer/director Lucio Fulci, actor Florinda Bolkan, cinematographer Sergio D Offizi, assistant editor Bruno Micheli and assistant makeup artist Maurizio TraniThe scene in which the vigilantes beat Florinda Bolkan to death (while pop music is playing…
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Fulci paints in muted colors and decrepit landscapes on the verge of modernization, but tells a tale of the ultimate evil rooted in tradition and Catholicism. Has a death scene to rival any other in cinema history.
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We need to talk about Lucio Fulci’s obsession with Donald Duck.
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Another excellent giallo from Lucio Fulci from before his gore-fest days!
This one is about an isolated village where young boys are being murdered and, because it’s a giallo, everybody’s a suspect and nobody’s safe. It had honestly been so long since I watched this that all I could remember was Barbara Bouchet’s swingin’ early 70’s pad and that insanity of an ending. Somehow, I had completely forgotten about all the intense and heavy themes this one deals with head on: small-town skepticism, rural conservatism, religious hypocrisy, pedophelia, witchcraft. All that’s here and yet I managed to only remember that glorious 70’s drenched house up on the hill. I have no idea what that says about me, but there you…
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I always wondered whether the title of this film was one of those fantastically random titles gialli were often blessed with but no, it actually makes sense, kinda! The literal translation of the Italian title, Non si sevizia un paperino, is Don't Torture Donald Duck but the international title has another level of meaning beyond the cruel beheading of a plastic toy.
For a film about child killings, Fulci is remarkably restrained. Most of the murders are tastefully done and happen off-screen, his trademark gore reserved for adult deaths - one particularly gruesome chain flaying and the ending sequence, where you can sense Fulci was thinking 'we really haven't had enough grue in this movie so far - have this!'…
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Don't Torture a Duckling is one of the truly great Giallo films and maybe Lucio Fulci's most accomplished work. This is a confrontational and shocking film; mainly for the fact that the central plot is the murder of young boys. We focus on a small village in rural Italy. Boys are turning up dead and the police are scrambling for answers, limited by the fears and superstitions of the local people. The ensemble cast is great, with Florinda Bolkan standing out in particular. The mystery is constantly intriguing and doesn't ever fall into genre tropes. Fulci instead prefers to explore the characters, situations and themes such as innocence, religion and black magic. It's surprisingly tame in terms of gore; but…
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A village of damnation. A dusty mountain roadside. Cars passing by, oblivious of the ancient rot of human secrets underneath. Neutral countenances on the surface, decayed pasts deep in the caves of the macabre, dancing their tango of death. A whiff of wind – the ashes of human nature blown out of the caves, the frayed particles settling on the graves of the murdered. They were only boys. The bare mountain roadside watching over the funeral ceremony, scouring the faces for any sign of its robbed dust. Church bells ringing, hands folded in prayer, faces smudged by sorrow – or fear? Fear of some other – or themselves? The wind howling on the mountain roadside, the dust of sin…
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Easily one of the top fifteen most disturbing Donald Duck films.
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"Don't Torture a Duckling" is a melodramatic study of people and their individual, rural religiosity, mostly far from offers of identification and sympathy: The movie caresses and plows through the genre foam without relying on superficial, (village) sensuality that would veil the tragedy. It‘s precisely in this certain absence of the usual and the deliberate used visual brutality that Lucio Fulcio finds his unique expression. A fairytale drama in the mountains.
"Fun" fact: Fulci had to go to court cuz of the scene with Patrizia and Michele, but he was able to prove that the scene was shot with a dwarf man.
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