The Psychic
The Psychic is a 1977 film from Italy, directed by Lucio Fulci, running 102 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo.
- Year
- 1977 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Director
- Lucio Fulci
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes · Seven Notes in Black · The Psychic · Death Tolls Seven Times
Defined in the glossary: Giallo
Fulci does a clockwork giallo. A woman's vision of a murder turns out to be her own future.
One of Lucio Fulci's most controlled and least gory films, a precisely engineered giallo about a woman with psychic flashes who has a vision of a murder and slowly realises she is seeing not the past but her own approaching death. The plot works like a clock, every image paying off.
It is a change of pace from Fulci's splatter, closer to Hitchcock than to Zombi 2, and it is clever about how its premonition fits together. Quentin Tarantino borrowed its score for Kill Bill.
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The cycle in depth
- 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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The Fenech giallo distilled to its purest form: models, murders, and no reason to solve any of it.
The House with Laughing Windows
A rural giallo with no gloss and a deep, patient dread. Often voted the best one going.
All the Colors of the Dark
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Who Saw Her Die?
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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
The Martino/Fenech formula, arriving fully formed. Cut and retitled Blade of the Ripper in the US.
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Best title in the genre. Poe adaptation with Edwige Fenech and a black cat.
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
A bridal-couture killer who narrates his own psychosis, and the best ghost gag Bava ever staged.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
A family curse, a killer in a red cloak, and a legend that kills every hundred years.
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
The killer paralyses you first so you feel it. A first-rank giallo nobody name-checks.
Torso
Sleazy for an hour, then a brilliant silent final act.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Fulci does psychedelia. The dog scene got him prosecuted.