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Directed by Pupi Avati, this horror movie stars Lino Capolicchio as Stefano, a painter who's restoring a fresco at a church in a small Italian village. But as he embarks on this arduous task, he disco...( read more 
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MCT:May 27, 2008Not Interested
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MCT:September 21, 2008
A very effective and at times unsettling thriller set in a remote village where an artist is summoned to restore a fresco on the church wall.
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MCT:May 26, 2008"The House with Laughing Windows" is a relentlessly depressing and, I found, a deeply disappointing 'giallo'. It deserves praise for avoiding those superfluous, atmosphere-sapping attempts at comedy that mar even the best examples of the genre - Dario Argento's "Deep Red" included - but, in all honesty, the plotting is as audaciously daft as ever. Fatally, the central mystery is not as absorbing as it should be, and the film is neither stylishly directed nor especially technically competent. It also contains a couple of the most risible love scenes I think I've ever seen. The atmosphere is unusually oppressive but, rather irritatingly, it's largely achieved via faintly sinister members of the supporting cast, who constantly drift in and out but never stick around long enough to be characterised. The glut of unanswered questions, and the unfair way in which the killer's identity is concealed - a common fault of gialli - are also annoying. We see little of the murders, probably for the very good reason that, retrospectively, it's impossible to imagine the victims being overpowered in the first place. The movie is mostly just Lino Capolicchio, walking around looking puzzled and miserable. Considering its strong reputation among exploitation aficionados, this is perhaps the most disappointing movie I've seen this year.
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MCT:January 12, 2008technically a giallo, but is more like a bridge between classic gothic horror films and later stephen king or even x files with a much darker, more dreadful feel to it. manages to be just as scary and mysterious as any giallo without all of the blood, knives, scary music or nudity or the others.
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MCT:December 11, 2007
Sono partita un po' prevenuta, probabilmente perché l'inizio mi ricordava Profondo Rosso che non mi è piaciuto per niente. Assolutamente niente a che fare con il film di Argento! I miei colori *__*
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