Short Night of Glass Dolls

A giallo narrated by a man everyone believes is dead. A journalist's corpse lies on a slab in Prague, fully conscious inside a paralysed body, piecing together in flashback how he got there and what happened to his vanished lover.

Aldo Lado builds real dread out of that premise, and the conspiracy the journalist uncovers is stranger and more political than the usual jealous-relative reveal. Morricone provides an unusually mournful score.

Unusual, chilly and unsettling. One of the great overlooked gialli.