- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
Who is the new Jack the Ripper holding Rome in a grip of terror? American author Tony Musante knows he's witnessed a vital clue to the chilling conundrum - but what is it exactly? Dario Argento's giallo trendsetter (giallo, or "yellow", being a term for all Italian thrillers more concerned with the modus operandi of the bloody murders than their whodunnit aspect) is a glossy, stylistic, cosmopolitan and jagged mystery firmly entrenched in Hitchcockian paranoia. A seminal work, it shows Argento's visual flair for horrific set pieces and introduced the trademark themes he would develop in such subsequent violent nightmares as Suspiria and Opera.
Plot Summary
Suspense thriller starring Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall. An American writer in Rome witnesses the latest in a series of murders of women, and becomes drawn into the case.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sam Dalmas
- Tony Musante
- Julia
- Suzy Kendall
- Monica
- Eva Renzi
- Morosini
- Enrico Maria Salerno
- Berto
- Mario Adorf
- Dover
- Renato Romano
- Ranieri
- Umberto Rano
Crew
- Director
- Dario Argento
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