We have some movie release news today with the release of a 70s chiller starring 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?.Â
Lazenby portrays Franco Serpieri, a sculptor who 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 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.
Special Features
Interview of Director Aldo Lado – ‘Ring a Ring o’Rosie’
Interview of Producer Enzo Doria – ‘The Quest for Money’
Interview of writer Francesco Barilli – ‘To Live and Die in Venice’
Aldo Lado Q&A courtesy of the ‘Abertoir International Horror Film Festival’
Original English soundtrack with additional English SDH
Alternative Italian audio track with new English subtitles
New encode in Full HD 1080P from 2K-Restored full-length original negative
All region
Who Saw Her Die? is available region-free and uncut on Blu-ray and digital on-demand on 26 August from Shameless Films
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
