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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A sleek, sun-drenched giallo built around an expanding investigation, glamorous suspects, nervy stalking, and sharply staged murders—close to Tarantula's mix of procedural momentum and lurid menace.
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Why this pick
It shares the investigation-led giallo structure, mounting dread, and a killer whose violence is tied to a concealed past, with an unusually somber, melancholy atmosphere.
03
Why this pick
For the same combination of fashionable European settings, cryptic murder pattern, threatened heroines, and colourful, dreamlike visual design beneath a whodunit framework.
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Why this pick
A 1971 Italian thriller with a similarly paranoid investigative pull, elegant surfaces, and unsettling implications; its measured pace makes the revelations feel increasingly ominous.
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Why this pick
A foundational match for its amateur investigator, subjective danger, stylized killings, and clue-driven suspense—balancing polished visuals with the uneasy logic of a giallo puzzle.
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01 / THE STORY
A mysterious killer is attacking women associated with a blackmail conspiracy. The deranged murderer, wearing surgical gloves, kills his victims by paralyzing them with a needle and then slicing open their bellies with a knife (in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp or spider wasp). The victims are conscious and can feel the pain, but they are unable to move, resist or scream. One victim (Barbara Bouchet) is wearing a yellow nightie when she is killed, an obvious nod to the ''giallo'' covers of the lurid Italian murder mysteries on which the films were based. It is up to the reluctant Inspector Tellini (Giancarlo Giannini) to find out who the killer is, before he or his girlfriend become the murderer's next target.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Inspector Tellini
Franca Valentino
Anna Tellini
Mario
Psychiatrist
Maid in beauty parlor
Maria Zani
Jenny
