'Only Blackness') Italian giallo film co-written and directed by Antonio Bido.The film follows a professor returning to his home of a coastline Italian village, where a woman is strangled like a young girl who was murdered years ago, before sinners in the town start dying as well.
Years later, college professor Stefano returns home from Venice to visit his brother Don Paolo, a priest who has been ranting against the immoral people in his village...a group of ne'er-do-wells including a gambler, a pedophilic count, a fake medium, and an illegal abortionist.
It resembles the strangulation murder from years before, and at the scene, Stefano has flashbacks from his childhood that give him dizzy spells, but the memories are incomplete.
on Paolo receives threatening typewritten messages, which show pictures and documents pertaining to the unsolved murder of the girl.
Don Paolo continues receiving threats, from a skinned goat's head in his pulpit to the wire of his large crucifix cut to nearly crush him to death.
The abortionist, Elizabeth Nardi, hides an invalid, challenged son in her home who she primarily supports.
Paolo voices his remorse for all his done, and when he hallucinates all the people he's killed, he rushes to the bell tower despite Stefano's pleas and commits suicide by jumping out.
[1] Curti found the film less original than Watch Me When I Kill but that it had better than average acting and a good score from Stelvio Cipriani.