Friday, October 7, 2022

Hello Horror 2022 - Day 7 - Deep Red (1975)

  There's a lot of hyperbole on this poster.  I absolutely would not put Deep Red in the same category as Psycho and The Exorcist.  Content warning:  animal death, animal torture

Pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) witnesses the murder of his downstairs neighbor, Helga Ullman (Macha Meril), a noted psychic, and becomes obsessed with finding her killer after a bumbling reporter (Daria Nicolodi) publishes his picture in the paper.  Fearing that he might be the next victim, Marcus tracks down Helga's compatriots and learns that she had a psychic vision of the murderer's previous victims and was going to write down all the details.  The more he uncovers, the more people end up dead.

This is Dario Argento's work and he is the OG of Vibes Only, No Plot.  This was less annoying than Suspiria, but there's a homophobic undercurrent that I did not care for.  It's all very Freudian and regressive.  But it is considered a classic of the giallo sub-genre, so if you're interested, it's currently streaming on Shudder and Tubi.

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