'The Bird With The Crystal Plumage'

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a part of the giallo film and literary movement in 20th century Italy of crime and mystery stories.

Giallo actually translates to "yellow" referring to the yellow covers of cheap paperback novels. The early inspiration was Alfred Hitchcock and corresponding genre took place in Sweden, France and Germany.

At the heart of the giallo sub-genre, was director Dario Argento, who got his start with co-writing Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in the West with Bernardo Bertolucci. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was his directorial debut and considering he had almost zero real experience in filmmaking. It was naturally a hit and defined Italian thrillers.

There's been worse debuts.