Reviews by fernando

(BluR) Happy terror, wonderfull deaths, Argento really amuses himself with his stuff. The pair of Hemmings and Nicolody plays for comedy (the little car of Daria is a gag tool) . Macha Meril is excellent in her little role of the first victim, a devastasted medium reacting to invisble attacks and the Hopper bar (a visual hommage) in Rome....

(BluR) Nunsploitation with archeoligical stuff of devealing secrets that makes townsfolks angry....nice sicilian landscape and monumental sites....

(BluR) Coppola revisits a story and plants other great themes (the birth of cinema, the quest of evil in ancient codes of adventure), with characters that suffers histrionically and yet delicate, romantic, agonizing love....Oldman is the best, Hopkins is a kindof while not too convincing variation on Cusiing's Van Helsing's archetype...

(BluR) Last Argento is giallo with less police film and more psycho killer terror.And pure blindsploitation as the exwhore bind girl escapes with chinese orphan...

(BluR) Second Argento's giallo is blindsploitation (Malden is the wise disabled) and some nice deaths, especially the effect of gping down the elevator cables with hands...

(BluR) The structure is a bit mechanical (flashbacks form the present attention of Theresa Russell's attempt tu suicide), but chaacters take over the diamying interest of it. Garfunkel is a kind og enigma while chaotic Theresa is on the level from the beginning...and is not...allis a matter of ¿timing or pairing?

(BluR) Leigh is already formed, imbued by its themesand characters and poor suburbs setting. here is family, neighbourhood wonderfully depicted with polar characters (slight disabled Roth, and envious mad ad the world brother) , both with dad in the line os unemployment office....Gary Oldman in great supporting part

(BluR) Amazing in its wonderful not evident horrifyng beginning, that sets style, tone, feelings; amazing in colour and imagery (not so much on sound, I like Goblin's melody but orchestration is too noisy)...

(BluR) Fertile Cronenberg imagination matches with Burroughs, even if his bug obsession/imagery is fra from Borroughs imagery. But converting bug powder in frugs gives a sense an even a structure to the film. Weller is ok, Davis is better, support from Holm and Sands and the gay boys too...

mmmhhh, it claims so much its importance (a bit more and asks for your money!) that becames too heavy.And the dramaturgy, sided on the polica superhero, is near boysploittion. No boy or girl is touched....