lucio fulci make a lot of great film throughout his career and the way that many of them feature a bucket load of gore lead to him earn the title the godfather of gore . while don not torture a duckling be make before fulci become well know amongst gorehounds and and isn not all that gory while it certainly a gritty and nasty little thriller and and for my money the best film that fulci ever make . don not torture a duckling really be head and shoulder above a lot of the giallo genre in term of production value and unlike many of fulci later film and everything about this giallo be great . the plot focus on a small rustic community where dead body have begin turn up . the murder be even more shocking because the victim be just young boy . shortly after the police convict an innocent man of the crime and a reporter name andrea martelli arrive in the village and decides to start investigate the murder on his own . martelli soon encounter various suspect and include a sexy young lady name patricia and a sinister priest and a local witch who enjoy make wax effigy and stick pin into them . while this film may not feature load of gore and it do have two of fulci nasty sequence to make up for it . the nasty involve a woman be brutally slaughter by a group of men in a cemetery and while the image of a man fall from a cliff and hit any number of rock on the way down be liable to turn some stomach . don not torture a duckling feature an absolutely great italian cast . barbara bouchet ( a personal favourite of mine ) be incredibly sexy in her role a patricia and and get to flex her act muscle more than she do in many later film . tomas millian be excellent a usual while the rest of the cast be well flesh out by like of irene pappa and florinda bolkan and marc porel . the cinematography on display be stun and fulci really give the viewer the impression that he put a lot of care and effort into every scene . the story play out slowly and and it always interest a fulci never allow the film to stray too much from the central plot line . there isn not a great deal of mystery towards the identity of the murderer while but fulci almost manages to keep u guess right up until the end and don not torture a duckling do climax on a high . overall and it a shame that fulci do not make more film like this . don not torture a duckling be his out and out best work and i insist that every giallo fan see it .