Good Cinematography and Music. The Story, Acting, Dubbing, Pace, etc, not so good.
As I was watching this, I thought, OK, this is not very good, but the cinematography and music was good, so I was thinking about 5 stars, then 4, and when the ending unfolded it clearly was a 3 star movie, only for the camera work and music.
The actors are just there, no charisma. The best was probably the main female. The boyfriend, zero charisma, zero. Who is this guy, the girls boyfriend, what does he do, he's got all the time in the world and becomes and amateur detective. There's a scene when this guy calls the girl and tells her that the neighbor died. He says it like a matter of fact, like he's reporting to his newspaper editor about a story. No shock, that hey the guy I just traveled to another town to meet was killed before I got here. NONSENSE! All the other actors are just as bland or worse than this character. Just crap. The dubbing didn't help either.
The beginning was interesting, with the pharmacist (decent acting) getting killed. It goes down hill from here. Something about revenge against Nazi concentration kills and revenge. The girl is a dancer, but we never get to see any skin. The boyfriend, as mentioned, takes it upon himself to solve the crime. Real macho. This actor had zero charisma. Maybe they were thinking he was like a Charles Bronson type. I don't know. I did not work. We have bunch of characters and actors, poorly written, and poorly acted. We get the revelation in the last 10 minutes, where the judge's family was killed, and wanted to scare the victims, and his surviving son goes further and kills them.
Best part, when the father realizes that the son was the killer and wanted to kill more, he shoots his son. Then off camera shoots himself in the head and he crashes his head on the desk with a bullet to the head. And the movie ends. The best, that it ENDS.
3 stars for Cinematography and Music. There were no actors in this movie. There was no Screenwriter for this movie. There was no direction for this movie.
Some reviewer mentioned that the movie was as good as Goblin (from Suspiria, I assume). I do not agree at all. The music in this movie was good, not something I would go and buy the cd for. The Goblin music in Suspria and Dawn of the Dead is garbage.
Also, I would rather watch this movie 10 more times than watch Suspira again. Suspiria is a truly amateur film, garbage in all aspects, story, acting, dubbing, cinematography, music, editing, etc. And what is completely incomprehensible is that so many people love this pile of garbage. Argento must have spent most of his film budget on publicity. I have seen Four Flies and Plumage. These are almost as bad as Suspiria. Argento has a cult following, maybe they are all part of the same witch cult in Suspiria. I suggest fans of Argento go join that idiot ballet school in Germany and meet up with that witch.
As I was watching this, I thought, OK, this is not very good, but the cinematography and music was good, so I was thinking about 5 stars, then 4, and when the ending unfolded it clearly was a 3 star movie, only for the camera work and music.
The actors are just there, no charisma. The best was probably the main female. The boyfriend, zero charisma, zero. Who is this guy, the girls boyfriend, what does he do, he's got all the time in the world and becomes and amateur detective. There's a scene when this guy calls the girl and tells her that the neighbor died. He says it like a matter of fact, like he's reporting to his newspaper editor about a story. No shock, that hey the guy I just traveled to another town to meet was killed before I got here. NONSENSE! All the other actors are just as bland or worse than this character. Just crap. The dubbing didn't help either.
The beginning was interesting, with the pharmacist (decent acting) getting killed. It goes down hill from here. Something about revenge against Nazi concentration kills and revenge. The girl is a dancer, but we never get to see any skin. The boyfriend, as mentioned, takes it upon himself to solve the crime. Real macho. This actor had zero charisma. Maybe they were thinking he was like a Charles Bronson type. I don't know. I did not work. We have bunch of characters and actors, poorly written, and poorly acted. We get the revelation in the last 10 minutes, where the judge's family was killed, and wanted to scare the victims, and his surviving son goes further and kills them.
Best part, when the father realizes that the son was the killer and wanted to kill more, he shoots his son. Then off camera shoots himself in the head and he crashes his head on the desk with a bullet to the head. And the movie ends. The best, that it ENDS.
3 stars for Cinematography and Music. There were no actors in this movie. There was no Screenwriter for this movie. There was no direction for this movie.
Some reviewer mentioned that the movie was as good as Goblin (from Suspiria, I assume). I do not agree at all. The music in this movie was good, not something I would go and buy the cd for. The Goblin music in Suspria and Dawn of the Dead is garbage.
Also, I would rather watch this movie 10 more times than watch Suspira again. Suspiria is a truly amateur film, garbage in all aspects, story, acting, dubbing, cinematography, music, editing, etc. And what is completely incomprehensible is that so many people love this pile of garbage. Argento must have spent most of his film budget on publicity. I have seen Four Flies and Plumage. These are almost as bad as Suspiria. Argento has a cult following, maybe they are all part of the same witch cult in Suspiria. I suggest fans of Argento go join that idiot ballet school in Germany and meet up with that witch.