Watch Me When I Kill (1977)

People are voting emotionally.

Absolutely Brilliant!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Another enjoyable entry into the Italian giallo genre, although this veers more towards 'solid' than spectacular. The locations are less arresting than usual in these films, but there is a fine conveyance of squalor and run-down industrial landscapes which, when located within the rolling landscapes, provides a particularly stark backdrop to the gloomy events.I think the word 'gloomy' covers things really. There are no real standout characters; no Edwidge Fenechs of Rosalba Neris, or even a stubbornly chauvinistic male hero to hiss at. We have instead, nice Lukas, played by Corrado Pani, who attempts to investigate the dark goings on.Paola Tedesco plays Mara, a young dancer, who witnesses the murder of a local pharmacist. A string of killings then take place, all nicely staged. 'Watch me When I Kill' is a decent rather than engrossing giallo that only occasionally captures the sinister atmosphere of others of its type.

Good Cinematography and Music. The Story, Acting, Dubbing, Pace, etc, not so good.As I was watching this, I thought, OK, this is not very good, but the cinematography and music was good, so I was thinking about 5 stars, then 4, and when the ending unfolded it clearly was a 3 star movie, only for the camera work and music.The actors are just there, no charisma. The best was probably the main female. The boyfriend, zero charisma, zero. Who is this guy, the girls boyfriend, what does he do, he's got all the time in the world and becomes and amateur detective. There's a scene when this guy calls the girl and tells her that the neighbor died. He says it like a matter of fact, like he's reporting to his newspaper editor about a story. No shock, that hey the guy I just traveled to another town to meet was killed before I got here. NONSENSE! All the other actors are just as bland or worse than this character. Just crap. The dubbing didn't help either.The beginning was interesting, with the pharmacist (decent acting) getting killed. It goes down hill from here. Something about revenge against Nazi concentration kills and revenge. The girl is a dancer, but we never get to see any skin. The boyfriend, as mentioned, takes it upon himself to solve the crime. Real macho. This actor had zero charisma. Maybe they were thinking he was like a Charles Bronson type. I don't know. I did not work. We have bunch of characters and actors, poorly written, and poorly acted. We get the revelation in the last 10 minutes, where the judge's family was killed, and wanted to scare the victims, and his surviving son goes further and kills them.Best part, when the father realizes that the son was the killer and wanted to kill more, he shoots his son. Then off camera shoots himself in the head and he crashes his head on the desk with a bullet to the head. And the movie ends. The best, that it ENDS.3 stars for Cinematography and Music. There were no actors in this movie. There was no Screenwriter for this movie. There was no direction for this movie.Some reviewer mentioned that the movie was as good as Goblin (from Suspiria, I assume). I do not agree at all. The music in this movie was good, not something I would go and buy the cd for. The Goblin music in Suspria and Dawn of the Dead is garbage.Also, I would rather watch this movie 10 more times than watch Suspira again. Suspiria is a truly amateur film, garbage in all aspects, story, acting, dubbing, cinematography, music, editing, etc. And what is completely incomprehensible is that so many people love this pile of garbage. Argento must have spent most of his film budget on publicity. I have seen Four Flies and Plumage. These are almost as bad as Suspiria. Argento has a cult following, maybe they are all part of the same witch cult in Suspiria. I suggest fans of Argento go join that idiot ballet school in Germany and meet up with that witch.

As a huge fan of Italian Gialli, I am rarely disappointed when seeing a particular Giallo for the first time, but I regret to say that this was the case with Antonio Bido's "Il Gatto Dagli Occhi Di Giada" aka. "Watch Me When I Kill" / "The Cat With The Jade Eyes" (1977). Maybe it was that I expected too much, because a fellow Giallo-buff had recommended this film to me as particularly great. However, I really didn't see a lot of qualities to make this film particularly recommendable, other than a brilliant score, some grisly murders, nice settings and an elegant (but in no way outstanding) photography. As opposed to most Gialli (even many of the weaker ones) "Watch Me When I Kill" isn't terribly suspenseful, I regret to say that it even gets boring throughout the middle parts. It isn't style that is the problem here. The film does feature the Genre-typical murders from the killer's perspective, and they are very well-made. The film is quite beautifully shot in nice locations in Rome. And, as stated above, the utterly fantastic score is doubtlessly the film's greatest aspect. However, none of the characters are likable or even interesting, and that makes it very hard to care about whether they're killed or not. When a pharmacist is murdered by an unknown killer, a young dancer (Paola Tedesco) hears the killer's voice. Soon thereafter, she is also being stalked by the culprit, at which point her detective boyfriend (Corrado Pani) begins to investigate... The murders are grisly, but, especially for a late 70s Giallo, not very gory, and the film doesn't feature any sleaze. The mystery is not predictable, but, apart from some genuinely creepy moments, the film still isn't very suspenseful. I would not say that "Watch Me When I Kill" is a bad film as such, but, as far as I am concerned, it is a weak one by the usually high standards of the wonderful Italian Giallo. It has its redeeming qualities, the greatest of which is doubtlessly the brilliant score. However, I do not understand how some people can compare this to Gialli by Argento or Sergio Martino. I haven't seen Bido's other Giallo, "Solamente Nero" (1978) so far, but I do expect it to be better than this one. "Watch Me When I Kill" is worth watching for my fellow Giallo-fans, but, in my humble opinion, it's in no way very memorable or recommendable.

I rented this movie and was sadly disappointed. First the print of the DVD was very bad. Okay, so that's not the filmmaker's fault. Fine. Next, the characters were boring and not interesting at all! Usually in a giallo, there are sleazy and/or interesting people. Not here. Secondly, the murders were boring and lacked style. The one thing I will say is that perhaps if I saw a better print of the movie I would have had a better experience. Also, the "raspy voice" of the killer in the beginning was effective. And the whole revelation was pretty plausible for a giallo. Just wait for Blue Underground or someone to put out a better copy.