SMILE BEFORE DEATH

After spending years away at boarding school, teenager Nancy (Jenny Tamburi, THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR) returns home to reconcile with her estranged mother, only to learn that she recently died in an apparent suicide. Nancy quickly suspects her cash-strapped stepfather Marco (Silvan Tranquilli, THE BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY) and his mistress Gianna (Rosalba Neri, THE FRENCH SEX MURDERS) of having murdered the wealthy matriarch, but the truth is even more shocking, and all three soon find themselves embroiled in a complex web of double and triple crosses in which nothing—and nobody—are quite what they seem. Filled with familicide, Oedipal lust, and convoluted, conspiracy-heavy plotting, Silvio Amado’S SMILE BEFORE DEATH is a prime example of the giallo at its most depraved and decadent.