Big emotions, small killer.
Swept away by grief over their daughter’s tragic drowning, a couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) stow their son away in a private school, then flee to dread-soaked Venice.
The change of locales doesn’t do much to help their fragile psyches, however.
Premonitions of death and danger — fueled by a chance encounter with an older woman who claims she can see their daughter — threaten to shatter their brief happiness.
Toss in a serial killer haunting the dank alleyways, slashing folks left and right, and we’re headed for one of the creepiest final showdowns in film history.