Death Walks on High Heels
Death Walks on High Heels is a 1971 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Luciano Ercoli, running 105 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Director
- Luciano Ercoli
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Death Stalks on High Heels
Defined in the glossary: Giallo
Ercoli's best. Structurally cleverer than most of the cycle.
Luciano Ercoli's giallo is cleverer about structure than most of the cycle. A Parisian showgirl whose jewel-thief father is murdered flees to England, and the film pulls off a mid-point shift that reorders what you thought you were watching.
It is stylish, twisty and a little colder than the Martino films, with Nieves Navarro (billed as Susan Scott) carrying it. The plotting actually holds together on a second viewing, which in this genre is close to a miracle.
For anyone who wants a giallo where the mystery is the point.
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Written about
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
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