Giorni d’amore sul filo di una lama (Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor)

The poster for Giorni d’amore sul filo di una lama looks promising enough, but unfortunately Guiseppe Pellegrini's 1973 giallo fails to deliver any kind of thrills. You get amateurishly staged fights, uninspired gunplay and a bad guy who constantly refers to himself in third person. Sadly you don't care about any characters and there's no suspense to speak of, so there really is very little reason to sit through this film unless you're a giallo completist.

No info on who's responsible for the wonderful poster.

Mania

Renato Polselli's Mania might be impossible to find, but as you can see the poster is around. For those who don't know, Renato Polselli 1973 giallo is like the Holy Grail of the Giallo genre. In the years that I've been trading I've never come across anybody that has claimed to have seen it. No info on the poster artist.

La Morte negli occhi del gatto (Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye)

Antonio Margheriti's second giallo following 1968's Nude...si muore. A Scottish castle with secret passages and a gorilla called James aren't things one necessarily associates with a giallo and La Morte negli occhi del gatto really is a slightly curious mix between Margheriti's beloved gothic horror films and a traditional giallo. At least there's a razor wielding maniac around to liven up the proceedings. Poster art by Piero Iaia

Vita privata di un pubblico accusatore (Violent Blood Bath)

Judge Oscar Bataille's (Fernando Rey) vacation with his young wife Patricia (Marisa Mell) is interrupted when someone starts copying murders where the killer was sentenced to death by Judge Bataille.
Since Vita privata di un pubblico accusatore is directed by Jorge (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) Grau, I had fairly high hopes the first time I saw the film but unfortunately it's fairly uninspired and predictable. Not even the presence of the normally reliable Rey and Mell makes it rise above the average Spanish thriller. Poster art by L. Crovato.

La Casa Della Paura (The Girl in Room 2A)

The beautiful Daniela Giordano (Bava's Four Times That Night) stars alongside Raf Vallone, Karin Schubert and Rosalba Neri (playing a social worker) in William L. Rose's La Casa Della Paura from 1973. It's a low budget affair with a poor script, dodgy special effects and a painfully inappropriate score, but I still find it a quite charming affair and it doesn't outstay its welcome at 82 minutes. The two alternate posters for the film are both by Aller.  

Qualcuno l'ha visto uccidere (The Student Connection)

Dr Roger Mell (Ray Milland), a physician and headmaster of a boarding school, is having an affair with the beautiful Sonja (Sylva Koscina), a married woman. He arranges to have the husband murdered, but is mortified to find out that the hitman killed the husband by blowing up a plane on take-off killing 140 people. In a fit of rage, Dr Mell kills the hitman, but realizes that one of the pupils has witnessed the crime. The only question is who...

Rafael Romero Marchent's Qualcuno l'ha vista uccidere is a slightly different giallo since you know who the killer is from the very beginning. Instead of focusing on finding the killer, we follow Milland as he tries to find and eliminate of the only witness to his crime. A fairly slow-moving giallo, but worth seeing. Milland is good in the lead, the script is by revered giallo director Luciano Ercoli and the soundtrack is by Stelvio Cipriani.

I Corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (Torso)

Unlike Sergio Martino's previous gialli (which were produced by his brother Luciano) I Corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale was produced by Carlo Ponti. I'm not sure if that's one of the reasons that it's got a slightly different feel to Martino's previous films, but it's nevertheless a great film. You've all seen the fantastic looking sequence when the killer is stalking one of his victims in the woods and the very suspenseful later half with Suzy Kendall locked in a house with the killer.
It's one of the gialli with the most numer of editions available on DVD, but sadly none of the are perfect. Apparently the NoShame had a one in the works as well, but since they seem to have closed their doors, it looks like a definitive version is unlikely to surface anytime soon.
And like all the other posts this week, I haven't been able to find any info on the poster design.

L'Altra casa ai margini del bosco (The Corruption of Chris Miller)

I'm generally not a big fan on Spanish thrillers since most of them seem that lack the sense of style that make their Italian counterparts so great. Considering Juan Antoni Bardem's L'Altra casa ai margini del bosco starts off with a killer dressed up like Charlie Chaplin, it's easy to dismiss it straight away, but it's actually one of the better Spanish thrillers. If it would have been made in Italy it would have been directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker. High-praise indeed. Locandina artwork by Symeoni.

L'Arma, l'ora, il movente (The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive)

One of the few posters in my collection where I haven't yet had the opportunity to see the film. I love Enzo Nistri's fantastic looking poster art for Francesco Mazzei's 1973 giallo L'Arma, L'ora, il movente so I'd certainly would like to see the film one day. Some of you might recognize the art-work, since it was used as the cover art for the X-Rated release of Margheriti's Nude...si muore.

Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio (Death Carries a Cane)

Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio is a minor, but still very enjoyable 1973 giallo by Maurizio Pradeaux. Susan Scott is no Edwige, but she’s always fun to watch. I was really excited when I managed to get my hands on this poster. I love the poster art by Piovano and it really feels like a quintessential giallo locandina.

Il Fiore dai petali d'acciaio (The Flower with Petals of Steel)

It took me quite some time to track down an english subbed copy of Gianfranco Piccoli's 1973 thriller Il Fiore dai petali d'acciaio. I'm generally quite fond of Carroll Baker's work, so I was hoping this might be a forgotten classic. It wasn't. It was rather dull and uninspired entry in the genre. One for the giallo completist only. The poster by Ezio Tarantelli looks pretty good though.