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Deep Red

David Hemmings

Daria Nicolodi

Gabriele Lavia

Macha Méril

Eros Pagni

Giuliana Calandra

Piero Mazzinghi

Glauco Mauri

Clara Calamai

Aldo Bonamano

Liana Del Balzo

Vittorio Fanfoni

Dante Fioretti

Geraldine Hooper

Jacopo Mariani

Furio Meniconi

Fulvio Mingozzi

Lorenzo Piani

Salvatore Puntillo

Piero Vida

Nicoletta Elmi

Dario Argento

Salvatore Baccaro

Omero Capanna

Bruno Di Luia

Attilio Dottesio

Tom Felleghy

Glauco Onorato

Marilù Tolo

Franco Vaccaro

Gianni Di Segni

Mario Pascucci

Bernardino Zapponi

Claudio Simonetti

Giorgio Gaslini

Claudio Argento

Salvatore Argento

Luigi Kuveiller

Franco Fraticelli

Armando Mannini

Elena Mannini

Stefano Rolla

Angelo Iacono

Nicla Palombi

Giovanni Morosi

Giuliano Laurenti

Eugenio Fiori

Nick Alexander

Mario Faraoni

Ubaldo Terzano

Francesco Bellomo

Sergio Coletta

Angela Viglino

Vivalda Vigorelli

Germano Natali

Carlo Rambaldi

Giuseppe Bassan

Carlo Cucchi

Maurizio Garrone

Stefano Olivieri

Aldo Taloni

Massimo Anzellotti

Carlo De Marchis

Antonio Annunziata

Sergio Emidi

Antonio Tonti

Piero Bozza

Carlo Du Bois

Cesare Jacolucci

Ocular Bonanza.

When a psychic is murdered after picking up the thoughts of a psychotic killer, Marcus Day is the only witness to the crime and sets about trying to figure out who is responsible. But he then finds that the killer is shadowing him and targeting anyone who files in to help his investigation.

Dario Argento’s Deep Red (AKA: Profundo Rosso/The Hatchet Murders) is rightly regarded as one of the leading lights of Giallo. Argento pitches Marcus Day (David Hemmings working from a splinter of Blow Up) into a rousing and visceral world of murder and mystery – and takes the viewers along as well! It doesn’t matter what time of day or night it is, Argento always has a sinister edge pulsing through his movie. The mystery element is also strong, including for first time viewers a cheeky opportunity to solve it very early on.

Painting it all in vivid coloured strokes, Argento unleashes a myriad of stylish sequences, adding in children’s toys and mannequins to further up the creep factor. Musically not all of it works, but the running children’s thematic motif works strikingly well. Negatively the dubbing is often iffy at best and some of the now infamous murder sequences veer close to comedy because the director allows them to be protracted.

Uncompromising, thrilling and striking, some quibbles aside, Deep Red is a very positive experience. 7.5/10

A remarkable and breathtaking horror work, easily my favourite of a distinguished, exciting run Argento made at the peak of his career. Films like THIS provided stunning proof to people's assertion the world over that he was the Italian Hitchcock. The soundtrack by Goblin is to be treasured. For both horror and thriller aficionados, well worth getting in the very best edition possible, and well worth rewatching. A master craftsman at the pinnacle of his artistry.

Parts of this were pretty slow but the mystery elements were good and I liked the leads even though their romance was really forced and unnecessary (I know those scenes were removed in the Export Version, along with some of the gore). Dario Argento's visuals were on display once more with some great close-up shots and the gore effects were wonderfully gnarly. Not great but still found it entertaining. **3.75/5**

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