27. La casa dalle finestre che ridono (The House with the Laughing Windows)

Pupi Avati, 1976

This is very much a slow-burn movie, in that nothing of any real consequence occurs until about 20 minutes from the end. This isn't much of a problem, though, because a) when things do start to happen, it's a doozy and b) there's enough atmosphere and tension in the early phase that it's still reasonably gripping, even though nothing is happening. It's generally classified as giallo, which I would quibble with, a little - of course, defining giallo is like defining film noir. Everyone's going to disagree with everyone else about it anyway.

6.5/10