NON HO SONNO
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 6:49 am
A-Oooh! I had the sincere pleasure of checking out the new R2 Italian DVD of this and I gotta say its definitely a step in the right direction for Argento.
I wouldn't say its quite a throwback to his smooth giallos of the early-mid Seventies but rather a simmering broth of elements from all his films and it works well. With some gliding camera work, uneven dubbing, fetish weaponry, animal imagery, supressed memories, nursery rhymes, family secrets, red herrings, black gloves, Italiano slut nudity, split personalities, Gabriele Lavia, cool Goblin tunes and Max von Sydow thrown on top, it had to be worth something. And it is, just what exactly is up to the individual.
Its too early for me to place it a position in my scale of Argento movies but its definitely a few rungs above anything he's made for the last ten or so years (my personal low point would be TRAUMA although I haven't seen his PHANTOM. DEEP RED gets top spot).
The violence is rather brutal (and beautiful), especially one scene with a English Horn that'll leave you all squirming at its graphic realism.
The DVD itself is PAL, in both English and Italian 5.1, with English subs and a fifteen minute Making of... style promo that's in Italian only without subs. Looks great, buy it if you can. Steal it if you can't.
I hope you folks like it.
P.S. Oh, and did I mention midgets? Fuck yeah!
I wouldn't say its quite a throwback to his smooth giallos of the early-mid Seventies but rather a simmering broth of elements from all his films and it works well. With some gliding camera work, uneven dubbing, fetish weaponry, animal imagery, supressed memories, nursery rhymes, family secrets, red herrings, black gloves, Italiano slut nudity, split personalities, Gabriele Lavia, cool Goblin tunes and Max von Sydow thrown on top, it had to be worth something. And it is, just what exactly is up to the individual.
Its too early for me to place it a position in my scale of Argento movies but its definitely a few rungs above anything he's made for the last ten or so years (my personal low point would be TRAUMA although I haven't seen his PHANTOM. DEEP RED gets top spot).
The violence is rather brutal (and beautiful), especially one scene with a English Horn that'll leave you all squirming at its graphic realism.
The DVD itself is PAL, in both English and Italian 5.1, with English subs and a fifteen minute Making of... style promo that's in Italian only without subs. Looks great, buy it if you can. Steal it if you can't.
I hope you folks like it.
P.S. Oh, and did I mention midgets? Fuck yeah!