I believe the term Giallo - meaning yellow - refers to the colour of the pulp fiction paper-backs that were very popular in Italy after the war. And I think the movie's original title was Six Women For The Killer - a nicely provocative title you have there Mister Bava! This murder mystery set mainly at a Fashion house is an engaging and early body count horror. Obviously influenced by Les Diaboliques (it's the same plot!) Where the film really scores is in Bava's excellent and unflinching direction. He handles its hum-drum story with aplomb - even the Police line up scene, which is somewhat comical, is interesting.
The masked killer, who was to become so ubiquitous in these movies, actually looks a little like Rorschac in Watchmen! The film is also Hitchockian in a rather splendid way - the handbag sequence, in which the diary of a murdered girl that points to the killer's identity is pinched is great stuff - Alfred would have been very pleased to have done that scene himself.
There are a few moments of nastiness; - particularly the scene where the killer forces a model's face onto a red hot furnace - but time has reduced their shock value: we see far worse today in movies! Hugely influential, then, if not particularly original, well worth a viewing.
The masked killer, who was to become so ubiquitous in these movies, actually looks a little like Rorschac in Watchmen! The film is also Hitchockian in a rather splendid way - the handbag sequence, in which the diary of a murdered girl that points to the killer's identity is pinched is great stuff - Alfred would have been very pleased to have done that scene himself.
There are a few moments of nastiness; - particularly the scene where the killer forces a model's face onto a red hot furnace - but time has reduced their shock value: we see far worse today in movies! Hugely influential, then, if not particularly original, well worth a viewing.