The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Its mixing of psychological horror and sexploitation with strikingly angular, chiaroscuro cinematography led Bava’s fourth feature to be deemed, retroactively, as the birth of giallo. More deliberately, the film is a creative riff on Alfred Hitchcock, with Letícia Román as Nora, the sole witness to a murder, who seeks out evidence with Dr Bassi (John Saxon) after the authorities refuse to believe her. Partly reshot for its English release as The Evil Eye, this more tonally consistent Italian version remains a major work in Bava’s career and in the wider horror canon. With Valentina Cortese.