George Lazenby, in a career-defining departure from his role as James Bond 007 (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), delivers a powerful, gutsy performance in Aldo Lado‘s chillingly disturbing giallo masterpiece, WHO SAW HER DIE?

Lazenby portrays Franco Serpieri, a sculptor recently separated from his wife (Anita Strindberg). He invites their young daughter, Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi), to spend time with him in an autumnal Venice. As father and daughter joyfully make up for lost time exploring the city, their idyllic bonding is shattered when Roberta becomes the target of a dangerous child-killer lurking in the city’s foggy canals. Consumed by grief and driven by a thirst for justice, a tormented Franco embarks on his own investigation, uncovering vicious depravity in the highest echelons of Venetian society controlled by a Machiavellian art-dealer Adolfo Celi (Largo in 007’s Thunderball).

Bearing striking and uncanny similarities to Nicolas Roeg’s later film, Don’t Look Now, Lado’s WHO SAW HER DIE? delves into a father’s haunting guilt within a spellbinding giallo mystery. Enhanced by Ennio Morricone‘s eerie score and Franco Di Giacomo’s (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)  evocative cinematography, now properly revealed in this definitive 2K-restored version, it showcases the giallo genre at its most chilling and captivating.

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When Franco (in a career-best performance by George Lazenby) loses his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer he sets off on an unnerving journey of retribution that will bring him to the very edge of his sanity and quite possibly his life too.

Director Aldo Lado (Night Train Murders) brings us the thrilling, stylish, atmospheric and perverted giallo, WHO SAW HER DIE. This haunting film, full of twists and turns will keep you enthralled until the very end. Boasting some of the most iconic names of genre, this film is not to be missed.

The mists that wreathe the eerie city of Venice become the hunting ground for a faceless child killer. This sinister figure is seemingly unstoppable in this taut and brilliant thriller, Who Saw Her Die?

A young red-head is murdered in Megeve by an ominous figure dressed all in black. Four years later, we meet the sculptor Franco (in a career-best performance by George Lazenby) when his daughter Roberta visits him in Venice. After leaving her to play one afternoon, the same terrifying black figure re-appears and Roberta goes missing. She is found face-down, dead in the dark and cold canals of Venice. After losing his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer, he sets off on an unnerving journey of guilt and retribution. This journey will bring him to the very edge of his sanity and quite possibly his life too.  

A truly compelling and gripping thriller, rigid with a tense and atmospheric style, this film bears an uncanny resemblance to the classic Don’t Look Now. Although, Who Saw Her Die? was actually made the year before. 

The film boasts both Franco Di Giacomo’s (Il Postino) starkly evocative cinematography and a chilling score by Ennio Morricone. Who Saw Her Die? haunts the mind long after viewing it.

Shamless Films brings back to life this influential, hidden gem. A chilling giallo set against the misty backdrop of Venice. Available on DVD.

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