In his first film as writer/director, Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, DEEP RED, TWO
EVIL EYES) single-handedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the
filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as ‘The Italian Hitchcock’.
Sam, an American writer in Rome, witnesses a murder attempt on the wife of the
owner of an art gallery by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather
gloves. The woman survives, and the police say that she is the first surviving
victim of a notorious serial killer. But when they fail to make any progress
with the case, Sam decides to investigate on his own, turning up several clues
that point in the direction of just one possible suspect – assuming that he
really knows who he's looking for…
