Cristina Galbo was an actress of some moderate fame in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 during the late 1960s and early 1970s, who made a name for herself in film mostly for Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 vehicles.

Arguably her best role is as "Elizabeth Seccles", a boarding school girl having an affair with a married professor of Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 and gymnastics

Gymnastics

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, in the 1972 Massimo Dallamano shocker What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange? is a 1972 giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The film was based on the Edgar Wallace mystery novel The Clue of the New Pin. It was shot on location in London, England over the course of six weeks in the fall of 1971...

. A recent DVD release of her 1975 film The Killer Must Kill Again, the most notable work of Luigi Cozzi

Luigi Cozzi

Luigi Cozzi is an Italian movie director and screenwriter who directed mainly science fiction and horror films in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s...

 (a friend and associate of giallo film master Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....

) has presented her controversial work in that more obscure representative of the Italian horror genre.

Cozzi mentions on his DVD commentary for the film how Galbo was uncomfortable with the film's most disturbing scene, the killer's rape of her kidnapped and abused character. Galbo also has a significant role in another boarding school shocker, The House That Screamed, Narcisco Ibanez's 1969 Spanish film (La Residencia). Galbo eventually left film work to teach flamenco dance in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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Selected filmography

• Shoot Twice
  Shoot Twice
  Shoot Twice is a 1969 Italian Western film directed by Nando Cicero and starring Klaus Kinski and Antonio Sabato. The film is also known as Twice a Judas.-Cast:* Klaus Kinski - Dingus / aka Victor Barrett* Antonio Sabato - Luke Barrett...
  
   (1969)
• La residencia (aka The House that Screamed) (1972)
• Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (aka What Have You Done to Solange?) (1972)
• Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
• Assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora, L (aka The Killer Must Kill Again) (1975)

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