It was only a couple months ago that we were salivating over the Argentinian love letter to Dario Argento and Mario Bava. Since premiering at the Sitges Film Festival last year, Luciano Onetti’s neo-giallo has built up quite a bit of acclaim during it’s festival run.  Lucky for us, Unearthed Films, known for distributing independent splatter films, has picked up distribution rights for North America.   While we still don’t have an official release date, we can rest easy knowing it’s only a matter of time before a date has been set.

It’s been 15 years since the disappearance of little Francesca, daughter of the renowned storyteller, poet and dramatist Vittorio Visconti, and the community is stalked by a psychopath bent on cleaning the city of “impure and damned souls”. Moretti and Succo, questioned by the ineffectiveness of the police force, are the detectives in charge of elucidating the mystery surrounding these “Dantesque” crimes. Francesca seems to have returned, but she is not the same girl who everyone knew…
Francesca Poster