Don't Torture a Duckling

Don't Torture a Duckling

A classic tale of the perverse from director Lucio Fulci.

1972105 min7.3 / 10

A bleak, socially conscious giallo that uses child murder and mob hysteria to indict superstition, prejudice, and the persecution of outsiders in an insular community.

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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