i have pretty much see all the classic as well a the hidden gem of the italian sub genre of giallo and so what remain now be the more obscure and undiscovered gem if i be lucky and at least . smile before death be such a film giallo connoisseur have certainly hear about already and but the film remain unavailable on dvd to this day and if you really want to see it you have to be satisfy with a computer rip bootleg version with poor picture quality and unidentifiable foreign subtitle . smile before death be not bad and but certainly not great neither ( otherwise it would be wide know by now and ha . ) this isn not exactly what i would call the most exciting giallo ever make . it open promisingly enough and with the murder of a middle age woman in a remote country estate . the bedroom door be lock from the inside when they find the body and her throat be slit with a piece of glass that be find in her hand and so the police close the case a suicide . the teenage daughter nancy come to the estate and befriend her mother best friend and a photographer and as well a her handsome lover . the initially shy nancy be quickly draw into the sleazy world of nude modeling and the sexual affection of mature men . she doesn not know and however and that the clue to solve her mother dead lie with these same people and that she actually an obstacle in the killer ( s ) complete fiendish scheme . smile before death a stylish but sadly dull and underwhelming mystery thriller . apart from the murder on the mother near the beginning and which be show repeatedly and at least three time and there nothing even remotely suspenseful go on . i remember from amuck the other giallo by silvio amadio that the director be more interested in the naked body of his lead actress than in suspense and gruesome killing . i can not say i blame him and especially when work with rosalba neri and but the lack of excitement here be really intolerable . the theme song be great but overused and after a while i get sick and tired of star at the young lead actress naked body . that never a good sign . patient viewer will be reward with an acceptably entertaining albeit predictable and derivative climax and but it too late to safe the movie . one of the most disappointing gialli i ever saw .