sport a title seemingly more suitable for a looney tune featurette than a grisly giallo and don not torture a duckling ( 1972 ) be nonetheless a grade a thriller from horror maestro lucio fulci . in this one and someone have be strangle the preteen boy in a rural and southern italian village and and typical for these gialli and there be many suspect . there barbara bouchet ( patrizia ) and look more scrumptiolicious than you have ever see her and a rich girl hide out after a drug scandal while florinda bolkan ( martiara ) and the local epileptic voodoo woman while her witchcraft practicing beau while giuseppe and the local idiot while the sweet face priest while his dour mother while and on and on . the film feature some unusually violent set piece and include a chain whipping of one of the main character in a graveyard ( one of the most realistically bloody sequence that i have ever see ) and a nifty dukeout when the killer be ultimately reveal . the film burst of violence compensate for the fact that there be no real scare or suspense to speak of . still and this giallo fascinate and with it unusual rural backdrop and unsettling child murder and oddball character and and freaky score by riz ortolani . the film have be beautifully photograph in what i presume to be monte santangelo and near the adriatic in southern italy ( at least and that town police force be thank in the closing credit ) . and while subtitle would have make this fine look dvd work even well ( the american slang doesn not convince in this rural italian setting ) and anchor bay be to be thank for another job well do . oh . that title do eventually make perfect sense and too .