Deep Red (Profondo rosso) (The Hatchet Murders)

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Daria Nicolodi, David Hemmings, Eros Pagni, Gabriele Lavia, Giuliana Calandra

A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secre...( read more read more... )t buried.

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  • rubystevens
    November 4, 2009
    rubystevens
    i can't deny there are beautiful scenes in it but damn, asia's mom is annoying. i kept waiting for her to die. on the whole, i prefer suspiria
  • Stinger839
    February 7, 2009
    Stinger839
    Flixster ate my review, which was lengthy. I can't be bothered retyping the whole thing though.

    Very slow in the middle. Last two kills are great. Goblin soundtrack is at times unusual for them but ultimately very effective. Didn't see the first half of that ending coming even t...( read more)hough I always operate on the conservation of characters principle.
  • gor41
    August 19, 2008
    gor41
    Creepy early psycho thriller with impressive music, lighting and sets. Reminded me of 'Don't Look Now'. Very stylish but a little dated.
  • emerson17
    March 8, 2008
    emerson17
    Dario offers here a really smartly filmed movie that, for some reasons, reminds me of The Eyes of Laura Mars, except that this one is better.
    I couldn't insist too much on the fact that this flick is technically superb: almost every frame is a work of art. And the music is excel...( read more)lent, too. So we've got here an obscure gem (that was my conclusion, lol).
  • RCCLBC
    February 25, 2008
    RCCLBC
    A great introduction for tose unfamiliar with Argento.
  • xecutioner1020
    February 21, 2010
    xecutioner1020
    It's not Dario Argento's masterpiece like most critics agree. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller in Argento's patented giallo style. It's worth viewing if you're a fan of the director's.
  • ElCochran90
    February 11, 2010
    ElCochran90
    "But I'm telling you the truth! You think you're telling the truth, but in fact... you're telling only your version of the truth. It happens to me all the time."

    PROFONDO ROSSO (1975)


    Director: Dario Argento
    Country: Italy
    G...( read more)enre: Horror / Music / Mystery / Thriller
    Length: 126 minutes

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    Before Halloween (1978), before Friday the 13th (1980) and even before Lucio Fulci entered into action and became "the godfather of gore" (which he certainly isn't), there was Profondo Rosso. I'm really proud to present what I undoubtedly call a masterpiece of horror. Dario Argento has created one of the most legendary, memorable, scary, brutal and even artistic horror films ever. This film is definitely the best film of Italian horror cinema and the most representative of its syle as well, which would be copied afterwards endless times. Dario Argento is certainly one of the greatest horror directors that ever existed and one of the most respected as well, and despite the endless tons of Italian giallos and Hollywood remake attempts to match the vision of Argento, the film has truly endured the most demanding and competitive celluloid test of time. Nowadays, it ranks among the best thrillers ever conceived by a macabre mind of artistic feasts.

    Profondo Rosso deals with the supernatural story of a musician who witnesses the death of a psychic who could read people's minds and had already predicted the past and future killings of an assassin. He later teams up with a female reporter in order to find who the killer is, who certainly has a deep and dark secret buried.

    I never imagined that horror films could be like this. I can clearly see now where it all began. Being a horror fan, this film has it all. It has shocking gore, well-built suspense, scary and fantastic imagery and a top-notch direction. I'll begin with the visual style. Argento's direction definitely surpassed my expectations, since I was left totally amazed. The camera work is extremelly beautiful and adds a lot of artistic value and susbstance to the story. The cinematography does not only capture wide shots in perfect angles, but also has some extraordinary close-ups to objects and people which show their most graphic details wonderfully. Just like Yimou Zhang is a master in the use of color in his films, Dario Argento uses red beautifully throughout. It sort of makes you fall in love with the color of blood, adding a lot of intensity to the plot and strong emotions as well.

    Profondo Rosso is one of the first horror films that belongs to the "slasher" sub-genre which uses childish elements to cause fear in its audience. This was a very daring concept which totally worked in an effective way. The use of a child's tender tune is a classic daring concept which is ultimately fantastic. Many horror films used this very same concept billions of times afterwards. Not only it uses a child's tune, but also relates it as a very important element in the killer's traumatic past. That is why Profondo Rosso is also a brilliant and macabre character study. Although the slasher film Black Christmas (1974) came a year before and shares similar aspects with this film, like the killer's murders being graphically shown on screen and the killer being revealed until the end, Profondo Rosso goes beyond that, and just like several previous giallos did (including some from Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci), it builds a lot of suspense in the audience while making it to try keep guessing who the killer is with the help fo the narrative structure. The music is not for everybody's taste, and although it is not as masterful and moving as a melody composed by Beethoven or as scary as the classic tune of Psycho (1960), it is fantastic. It is certainly weird, but Italy tended to use this kind of thrilling and suspenseful weird music in its films and I just love it. Profondo Rosso doesn't fail in that aspect either, since even the music has some unusually unique style. The killer's outfit (such as the dark, leather gloves and jacket) is also a classic and somehow devilish element.

    Unlike several Italian directors of the 70's and 80's like Lucio Fulci, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi and Mario Bava, Argento uses graphic and shocking violence and gore but not in a mindless and sadistic amount. The pace may be slow at times but almost every single dialogue and scene add important facts to the plot, and although the main focus of the film is not violence, it has a decent number of killings and all of them are quite shocking. The edition is brilliant. Have you ever seen a film which is dependent by its edition? Well I have, and this is one of those rare classic movies. Gore fans won't be dissapointed either. This is a classic masterpiece aimed for several and drastically different kind of audiences, and once you get (and accept) the chance to see this horror gem you'll understand where Hollywood got most of its ideas from and why Hollywood has made an incredible amount of awful horror films during the past 25 years, remakes included. Argento consolidated his reputation and style of filmmaking with Profondo Rosso, which is his best film. It doesn't get any better than this.

    98/100
  • mrbuckethead34
    January 26, 2010
    mrbuckethead34
    nice but could have been better, weird music.
  • EddieGunner
    January 23, 2010
    EddieGunner
    awesome movie, in fact great movie,
  • nelmes316
    January 6, 2010
    nelmes316
    In this disturbing Giallo, Argento delivers another Masterpiece. A fantastic murder-mystery, full of red herrings that will keep you guessing until the end. As to be expected with Argento, the cinematography is outstanding. Beautiful colours, stylistic Imagery and some wild camer...( read more)a angles all mixed in with some graphic and gruesome murder set-pieces. Completing the frightening atmosphere is a spine-chilling Goblin rock-music soundtrack. All this adds up to a truly breathtaking viewing experience. The two main characters, David Hemmings and Dario Nicolodi provide great performances and have a humorously sexy chemistry. Gabriele Lavia as Carlo and Glauco Mauri as Prof. Giordani also put in fine performances. Although there are gaps in the plot and various lapses in logic, the film is so visually stunning and suspenseful that it really doesn't matter. I highly recommend watching 126-minute Italian language version of this. Not a chopped dubbed version.
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