'Watch Me When I Kill' (1977) - Antonio Bido.

Versatile Giallo iconoclast, Antonio Bido's stylishly mounted, fear-flocked 1970s thrillers have quite rightly been avidly reappraised as they have become more readily available on lovingly restored HD editions. Bido's sinisterly sleek, black-gloved aria to grisly, long-simmering revenge is perhaps his Gialli that owes the most to 'The Bird With The Crystal Plumage'. This mayhemic mélange of amateur sleuthing is groovily galvanized by Trans Europa Express's progressive, doomily pulsing, bass-loaded Goblin-esque score. Our reluctant, decidedly macho, cigar-chomping sleuth (Corrado Pani) must decode a shrill, doom-auguring recording of unsettling dissonance before the frenzied killer gruesomely dispatches another victim!

Like his slickly horror-hatching contemporaries, Bido has an sharp eye for a seductive leading lady and sinuous actress/dancer (Paula Tedesco) pleasurably engages our sympathies and libido as she fatefully enters the demoniacal vortex of the sadistic maniac. The killer's twisted modus operandi and darkly obfuscated mystery elements are vividly conceived, giving ardent thriller/Giallo fans a fabulous feast of frightful possibilities as the increasingly frenzied stalker closes in on our delectably distressed damsel. Bido's engaging phantasmagoria is stylishly manifested, displaying a dazzling flair for deliriously delivered death alongside its more esoteric qualities. 

Bido's compellingly creepy, excitingly executed giallo still delivers the goods, wending its circuitous way to a macabre and rewardingly hysterical conclusion. 'Watch me When I Kill' contains all the headier ingredients that make vintage Italian genre cinema so wickedly captivating. Their uniquely memorable scores, delicious fashions, beauteous locations, sultry heroines, hyperbolic kills, and a singularly sensual passion for bespoke bloodshed remains unrivalled to this very day! Maestro, Antonio Bido is a first class act, not only have his finely wrought thrillers stood the test of time, his mesmeric murder fest 'Watch Me When I Kill' is infinitely more intriguing than the many prosaic, identikill, overtly forensic, copycat slashers of today!