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D.A. (better known as The Killer) is the main antagonist of the 1975 giallo film The Dark is Death’s Friend, also known as The Killer Must Kill Again. The eponymous murderer is a serial killer of women across Italy, later solicited by Giorgio Mainardi to kill his wife Norma in exchange for not turning him in. When young lovers Luca and Laura steal the getaway car, the killer engages in a chase after them.

He is portrayed by French actor Antoine Saint-John.

Biography[]

D.A. is a sadistic, misogynistic serial killer of women across the country he abuses and murders, before disposing of their remains. He’s seen groping a woman he recently murdered, then sinking her in her car in a small canal. Mainardi witnesses this, as he’s using a nearby payphone, so he stops the killer, takes his lighter with his initials, and takes him to a skating rink to discuss his intentions during a performance. Mainardi says he’ll pay the killer to murder his wife Norma, who controls their estate and wants to divorce Mainardi for his affairs, and in return, he won’t turn him into the police, with the lighter as evidence. Giving the killer half the fee upfront, Mainardi eventually gets an agreement.

While Mainardi is at a party, Norma lets the killer in, as they agreed he’d act as a "colleague" to keep Norma feeling safe. When Norma went to get some water for the killer, he blitzes her by strangling her to death. Norma is placed in the trunk of the killer’s car while the killer cleans the scene, but 20-something couple Luca and Laura already hotwired the car and made off with it. The killer stole another car and made off after them, tracking their movements from refusing to pay for gas to tracking the tool booths they passed. Finding the beach the couple stopped at, the killer finds Laura is only there, as Luca went off for groceries, then picked up a woman stalled on the road to have sex with her in the stolen car.

The killer beats Laura to get information from her, and when he decides to wait for Luca, he strips Laura and rapes her, threatening to kill her if she doesn’t comply. Laura is then tied up, while Luca is knocked unconscious and the woman he picked up is stabbed to death by the killer. Laura pulls the knife out of the woman to cut her ties, then stabs the killer to death with the knife. The inspector on Laura’s murder later tells the couple who the killer is, then plans to catch Mainardi in the act, as he always knew Mainardi ordered Norma’s murder. When Moran and the car are left at the Mainardi house and Mainardi tries to dispose of Norma and the car, the inspector stops and arrests him.

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Trivia[]

  • The film's director confirmed the Spanish actress who portrayed Laura, Cristina Galbó, was traumatized by the rape scene in the film, the one she hated the most.