It's Horror Month at Fruitless, and we're kicking it off with some Italian horror. Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken, Junk Filter) joins Josiah and Jackal to discuss Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), Lucio Fulci's rural giallo about a string of child murders happening in a small Italian village. We discuss Catholicism, modernity, and Disney in Italy. 

Content warning: discussion of sexual violence and pedophilia.

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Music & audio credits

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Quei giorni insieme a te - Riz Ortolani
• Yesterday – bloom.
• Quei giorni insieme a te - Ornella Vanoni