Thursday, October 29, 2009

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)


Paramount
Directed by Dario Argento
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Mya Communication)

Early Argento still in full-fledged giallo mode. It's very confusing, and like most Argento more style than substance, but nonetheless an engrossing film with several wildly imaginative killings. Michael Brandon is Roberto, the drummer in a bad early seventies band. He accidentally kills someone he thinks is stalking him. Or does he? A witness to the supposed murder spends the rest of the film tormenting him for no good reason. More people die in gloriously deranged manners. Roberto has recurring dreams of being beheaded in a large Arab square. It all gets explained in the end.

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