Although there are only a few murders, Mrs. Tredoni devolves into a killer, using her faith as a means to off those she condemns as sinners. Religious imagery is found in spades in Alice, Sweet Alice. Tredoni’s extremism in her Catholic faith go hand in hand. Tredoni, played by actress Mildred Clinton, is both the most obvious and the least obvious person of interest. This is very much an “anti-Catholic” horror flick. Nothing is quite what it seems, except one crucial element. Her divorced parents try to defend Alice, but more bodies start to pile up. In this slasher/giallo hybrid, Karen (a young Brooke Shields) is killed before her First Communion and her volatile sister, Alice, is believed to have done it. Her head doesn’t stay intact and the film’s title is made literal when Martha’s body collapses and the pool of her blood fills up the screen. At the very end, before the credits roll, her chain necklace is snatched by a moving elevator. And if there was ever any karma existing in the world, it certainly caught up to Martha. Played by actress Clara Calamai, Martha Manganiello is the one responsible for the very grisly deaths seen in Deep Red. But of course, this entry being on this particular list, the real killer was actually his mother. The child grows up and ends up being framed for the film’s murders. But when their identity is revealed, it flips the whole story onto its head.įlashback scenes show a child witnessing the murder of his father. ![]() Black gloves and a dark coat are key identifiers as to who the villain is. As per tradition for the Italian subgenre, the killer wears plenty of leather. In this giallo film by director Dario Argento, a musician and a reporter team up to solve the gruesome murder of a psychic and the deaths that follow after.
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