Director: Massimo
Dallamano
Notable Cast: Giovanna
Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi, Farley Granger, Marina
Berti, Paolo Turco, Corrado Gaipa, Micaela Pignatelli, Sherry Buchanan, Attilio
Dottesio
Although it is often paired up with What Have You Done to Solange? when being referenced by fans and
critics, What Have They Done to Your
Daughters? is its own beast of a film. Having not seen the film prior to
its Blu Ray release from our friends at Arrow Video, my expectations for the
classic Italian thriller were fairly lofty. Solange
is one of my favorite giallo films, even if it’s more of a fringe giallo than
anything, and coming from the same director and period, while being referenced
in conjunction with Solange, it
simply lifted the expectations. However, What
Have They Done to Your Daughters? truly is more of its own thing and more
of a spiritual cousin to the previously mentioned classic than a replication of
it. Very little of the film is done in the stylistic and trope laden giallo
formula and instead it ramps up the realism and grittiness of its concept to
almost documentarian like levels. What
Have They Done to Your Daughters? is shocking and surgically precise while
backhanding its audience with its story and approach. It’s another truly
cinematic and powerful film from this golden age of Italian cinema.