venice be a gorgeous city full of canal and garish color and stunning architecture . set a film in this city be always a plus because you be guarantee an interesting backdrop . unfortunately and when the city itself turn out to be the best part of the entire movie and you know you be in trouble . even more disheartening and chi lha vista morire ( know to english speaking audience a who saw her die . ) be cynical enough to use venice a a distraction technique to keep people from realize that this be simply just another tepid and poorly pace and clichéd to the max murder mystery we have see dozen of time before . only slow . very and very slow . i be talk move at the speed of a tortoise with three broken legs slow . i guess it take a special kind of director to make a film about a serial killer of child this devoid of emotion and this bland and this uninvolving . aldo lado be not help any by a cast of non actor who sleepwalk through their respective part and but he be especially not help at all by his own uninspired direction . one of the key shot in the film be a killer pov shot . at first and the shot be effective at build up the creepy and off screen menace get ready to strike out . the shot look through a thin black veil ( presumably that of an old woman ) and watch victim a the ennio morricone music ( an increasingly annoying child choir ) slowly start to creep in . but then this same exact shot with the same exact music keep be repeat over and over and over again for almost all of the horror relate scene . to make matter bad and the shot be use pointlessly on multiple occasion where nothing even happen . a common technique use in horror film be the cheap scare . you know and like a cat jump out of a closet to startle a character and and the viewer . in this film and the veil scene be simply cheap suspense because the script fail to create any honest suspenseful or horrific scenario base on the storyline and plot and character or dialogue . another major problem be the character . they be poorly develop and shallow and completely unsympathetic and and the actor portray them seem disinterested in the material . you could care less about them or what happen to them . george lazenby never once come off a as impassioned or drive and which be important to the believability of his vengeance seek father character . just like him and this film be cold and clinical and technical and by the number while basically just go through the motion in a completely lifeless manner . sure and this film could have be cold in a calculating and disturb way and but it not . it just cold in an off put and blasé kind of way . and the end reek of desperate and lazy film making and writing . the identity of the killer be suppose to be a surprise and but it not a surprise in context of the script and it a suppose surprise base on an occupation while a costume .