Fulci was invited to join the project originally as a supervisor, but brought in his own story for Touch of Death which began filming on 22 June 1988.

Cannibal psychopath Lester Parson regularly abducts and mutilates women, eating specific cuts and disposing of the rest in his backyard to his pigs.

Playing dead for a few seconds, Maggie rises when Parson's back is turned and makes another dash for the front door, but is rounded up and punched unconscious.

Furious and exhausted, the killer shoves her head into an oven and switches it on, leaving her slumped with her flesh slowly melting off her face.

Catching up with him on a stretch of country road, Parson puts his foot on the gas pedal and pursues the terrified man, eventually crunching him under the vehicle.

When more TV announcements give further descriptions of the killer, Parson is forced to change his image again by dyeing his black hair brown and wearing tinted eyeglasses.

Sitting at home, Parson responds to an unlikely invitation to "come on over" from Virginia, a similarly bored, lonely, wealthy, but younger woman than his previous victims, when she dials his phone number by accident.

[3] The film was part of a series titled I maestri del thriller that was aimed directly at television and home video release.

[3] Producer Carlo Alberto Alfieri presented the project to Luciano Martino who rejected it, and later made a deal with August Caminito's Scena International.

[3] Caminito's company then contacted Distribuzione Alpha Cinematographica and Cine Duck and sold television rights to the series to Reteitalia.

[4] The other films in the series included Giovanni Simonelli's Hansel e Gretel, Leandro Lucchetti's Bloody Psycho, Andrea Bianchi's Massacre, Enzo Milioni's Luna di sangue, Mario Bianchi's Non avere paura della zia Marta, Umberto Lenzi's Le porte dell'inferno and Fulci's Sodoma's Ghost.