The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 Dir. Mario Bava Nora Davis (Letícia Román), a young American visiting her ailing aunt in Rome, witnesses a vicious murder in a deserted piazza after dark. She cannot convince anyone that what she saw was not a dream. She eventually discovers a box of newspaper clippings about a series of gruesome killings in the local area dubbed the ‘Alphabet Murders’. Fearing she is next on the killer's list, she decides to try and track down the malicious culprit with the help of the dashing Dr. Bassi (John Saxon). Can they find the killer before they too become victims? Mario Bava was a director who not only wielded a great mastery over gothic horror traditions in films such as Black Sunday , Kill Baby Kill and Black Sabbath , he also cut a formidable swathe through the contemporary thriller genre too. With films such as Bay of Blood , Blood and Black Lace and The Girl Who Knew Too Much - a work generally considered to be the first ever giallo film - Bava placed his edgy stories f...