Don’t Torture a Duckling

Year: 1972

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Lucio Fulci

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Lucio Fulci’s unsettling thriller follows a hard‑boiled reporter and a sexually liberated young woman as they investigate a string of brutal child murders in a secluded southern Italian village, where ancient superstitions and a deep mistrust of outsiders dominate daily life. Their probing draws them into a nightmarish web of folk beliefs and hidden secrets that threaten anyone who dares to uncover the truth.

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