- Year
- 1971
- Country
- Spain · Italy
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Director
- Luciano Ercoli
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Death Stalks on High Heels
Death Walks on High Heels
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
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
Filed alongside
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