Deep Red
April 29th 2011 05:37
Director: Dario Argento
Screenplay: Dario Argento and Bernadino Zapponi (original title: Profondo Rosso)
Production: Italy
Year: 1975
Sub-genre tags: giallo, murder mystery, serial killer
Tagline: Flesh Ripped clean to the Bone... And the Blood runs Red...
Logline: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, then teams up with a feisty reporter in a dangerous effort to find and stop the unknown killer.
Core cast: David Hemmings (Marcus), Dara Nicolodi (Gianna), Gabriele Lavia (Carlo), Macha Meril (Helga), Glauco Mauri (Giordani)
Memorable moment: In extreme close-up, and set to a pulsating prog-rock piece of music, the camera tracks across a miniature cradle, a string voodoo doll, illustrations depicting a stabbing murder, a small statue of a knight, coloured braids, a baby doll (which is picked up by a black-gloved hand), a devil figurine, marbles, and two flick-knives, finally cutting to a person applying thick black eyeliner.
Curious Fact: The close-up shots of the killer's hands, clad in black leather gloves, were performed by director Dario Argento himself (and is something he has done in several of his movies). The French title translates as The Shivers of Angst.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: low
Fear factor and/or frights: high
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): low
Horrorphile’s two cents: [a] bizarre sense of logic which unravels at movie’s end into a ludicrously satisfying denouement. The plot is a succession of provocative thought-process associations, very cleverly eschewing conventional suspense for a more convoluted choreography of tension and release.
Click here for Horrorphile’s movie review.
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