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Film Description
The bloody kills and red herrings come thick and fast in Deep Red, a classic giallo from Italian maestro Dario Argento, who weaves a twisted web of sadistic intrigue throughout.
A black gloved killer hacks a psychic to death but there was a witness - Marcus Daly, an English pianist, who rushes to the scene but too late to save the woman. He sets out to solve the murder but at every turn the mysterious slayer strikes, cutting off each line of enquiry with an acts grisly of violence, each more shocking than the last.
A surreal masterpiece, the film also features a pounding score from cult prog rockers Goblin.
Deep Red is stunning evidence that Dario Argento's delirious visual talents have been consistently in evidence from his earliest films to Inferno (1980), before his sk... more >
Deep Red is stunning evidence that Dario Argento's delirious visual talents have been consistently in evidence from his earliest films to Inferno (1980), before his skills deserted him. A tortuous Hitchcockian thriller (with a relatively unguessable denouement), it is better constructed than Suspiria (1977) - the film it has most in common with - and the plot-spinning between the big, operatic set-pieces is better throughout. However, it is obvious that the director's real interests lie in the heady exploration of baroque architecture in front of which his characters are gorily dispatched. David Hemmings, in a nod to his Blow Up persona, is almost witness to a murder, and, with the ambiguous aid of a young newswoman, threads his way through several menacing expressionist settings before, inevitably, confronting the deranged killer. The murders along the way are highly imaginatively staged - the death-by-boiling-water makes the similar sequence in Halloween II look thin stuff indeed. Several frissons are provided by Carlo Rambaldi's effects - the most shocking being decapitation by necklace and lift. < less
