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Adrien Brody, Byron Deidra, Daniela Fazzolari, Elsa Pataky, Emmanuelle Seigner
When her sister is kidnapped, an American woman in Milan teams up with a brilliant Italian detective to track her down. She's been abducted by Yellow, a brutal outcast who tortures and murders his vic...( read more
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Just as the term film noir was coined by the French to describe the cinematic equivalent of their black-jacketed hardboiled crime literature, the giallo, the Italian slasher movie, derives its name from the series of lurid, yellow paperbacks that directly inspired t...( read more)
¨Giallo¨ is a decent offering from the italian director, that isn't actually a giallo(it is a torture porn flix). It has some raw and bloody scene, as well as, close up of them, as ussual in Argento´s movies.
The acting is decent, there is a little tension and the visuals are ...( read more)
Oh my. A film that could irrevocably destroy everyone's career that was involved with it. Deservedly so. Barely so bad it's good, it's more "so bad it's astonishing". Scenes stay in wide shots as actors pause, waiting for their cue, ludicrous plot devices are used and logic i...( read more)
Argento's new giallo never goes beyond conventional, since the actors are all inexpressive here, the plot is only ordinary, and he never displays the directing skills that made him such a respected cult filmmaker.
I felt this was quite strange, it almost feels like Argento is pinning for the bygone days of his time and the time when Lang's Mabuse films were the rage, though I think it is still now among the art-house crowd, the days of wonderful camp. the days when silly humour and the tal...( read more)
I feel bad towards Brody, not Argento. The first is a good actor should know to pick better projects, the second should had retire already.
Not Dario Argento's best work by a long shot, though possibly his most funny film (but knowing that Argento's English isn't great I wonder how much of the humour comes from bad translation rather than being intentional). Still, not the worst way to pass 90 minutes.
From Dario Argento, the undisputed Master of Italian horror, comes a startling thriller sporting a title referring to the genre of sex-studded violence he popularized in the 1970s with THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE. After being abandoned by his junkie prostitute mother at bir...( read more)
