Cruel horror movie, with lots of well done suspense. To get the negative things out of the way first, Deep Red used way, way too many much close up scenes, and not just from people's faces, but the camerawork felt kind of amateuristic sometimes.
Secondly, I thought for a moment that a
character who got killed off, then suddenly reappearing, was an error. But then
I figured after reading Wikipedia's article and reviews that it was 2 different
characters actually, and not 1.
Although I really felt that they looked very
familiar...Deep Red, or Profondo Rosso, is about a musician who witnesses a
murder taking place, and teams up with a reporter to investigate and track down
the killer, with a surprise twist waiting at the climax.
As you can read, the
plot is kind of a mix from Dario's earlier movies. At first I found The Bird
with the Crystal Plumage Dario's best movie so far, but after reading thoughts
about this movie, I can say now that so far, Deep Red is one horror movie to
check out for sure.
For instance, the soundtrack was unusual, but after a
while, it grew on me and now it sounds very familiar and instantly reminds me
of the movie itself whenever I listen to it, which is a good thing. Besides
that, Deep Red also has creepy silence moments, nice kills and interesting
killer trademarks, such as an innocent child song playing or puppet dolls
"coming to life" and symbolizing the macabre whenever the killer is
close.
And I did expect a twist ending, but I did not guess the killer right, I
was targeting the drunk guy, the glasses man and perhaps but not likely the
little girl, but completely forgot about the mother of the musician's friend. Disturbing revelation.
Apparently,
you could even see her face at the very beginning of the movie,
right after the medium was killed, through a mirror, but I did not even
notice
this, hah. And the insane mother of course also gets help from her own
son, who
watched over the musician whenever possible. So, in overall, I am glad
to have experienced the first famous Dario Argento movie.
Rating: 7.5
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