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Donna and Laura Legnani are the hidden main antagonists of the giallo film The House with Laughing Windows. The Legnani sisters are a duo of serial killers in an Italian village they hold sinister influence over, to sacrifice lives for their dead brother Buono Legnani, an artist who turned them into ritual killers for his art.
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Buono, Donna, and Laura all made a pact to perform ritualistic murders for Buono's art. As Buono captured pain and terror of human history, the siblings butchered various people while Buono painted the murders to immortalize his art. One such art became a fresco at the local church of the village where the family lived. The remains of their victims were buried at their family home, and with the terror campaign they waged on the village, their crimes were rarely intervened against. When they got too much scrutiny and were finally at risk of apprehension, Buono lit himself on fire and fled into the woods. He was never officially confirmed dead, so he became the village's boogeyman. Donna married local restauranteur Solmi, and Laura masked herself as a bedridden spinster, while occasionally disguising herself as the priest of the church to protect the fresco. Although they were absorbed into the village, the Legnani family legacy silently loomed over the town with influence, which allowed the sisters to continue killing. Buono was indeed dead, but while the sisters preserved his remains in formaldehyde, they hoped their continuation of ritualistic human sacrifice would resurrect Buono through black magic.
The sisters lured their latest victims by vandalizing the fresco, hiring art restorer Stefano for the job. Schoolteacher Francesca was also lured by a job opportunity. Stefano's friend Antonio was manipulated into commissioning Stefano, but when he was near revealing the truth, the sisters shoved him out of his hotel room to his death to silence him. Stefano found tapes of Buono's musings, but the sisters discreetly wiped them before he could play them for whomever was supposed to hear him. Local drunk Coppola led Stefano to the bones of the victims, but he was drowned for it to silence him as well. To keep Stefano longer, the fresco was yet again vandalized. He planned to flee with Francesca, but he waited to long, and church volunteer Lidio raped her, then stabbed her to death. To have a substitute for Francesca, the sisters butchered Lidio, which Stefano walked in on. He narrowly escaped after being slashed, but the whole village locked the doors, abandoning him to the Legnanis. When he sought solitude in the church, he realized his grave danger when Laura removed her disguise, Donna arriving to join her. it's implied they both slaughtered him once the film ends.