The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)

Original title

Solamente nero

Directed by

Antonio Bido

Genre

thriller film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

18

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A professor goes back to his coastal Italian hometown. Soon after he arrives, a woman is strangled in a way that matches an old unsolved murder of a young girl. More killings of people considered sinners happen around the village.

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What happens

The Blood Stained Shadow (Italian: Solamente nero, lit. 'Only Blackness') is an Italian giallo film co-written and directed by Antonio Bido. The film follows a professor who returns to his home in a coastline Italian village where a woman is strangled. The strangulation closely resembles the decades-old unsolved murder of a young girl in the village and is followed by the murders of various "sinners" throughout the town. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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