Antonio Bido is a lesser
known name amongst the giallo directors, mostly because did this
movie, his first feature film, in the late 70's when the whole genre
was starting to fade after it's glory days. That doesn't make him a
bad director, on the contrary, for a first film this is absolutely
brilliant. He has the giallo style well in hand and the music choices
to boost it, hell even Dario Argento would be proud of some of the
scenes in this movie. The plot goes something like this, Lukas
(Corrado Pani) gets mixed up in a murder mystery when his girlfriend
(Paola Tedesco) sees a murderer leave a crime scene. Someone seems to
be after his neighbor as well and it looks like these two cases might
be connected as someone seems to be after the jury members of a
certain court trial. The story isn't half bad, sure there are some
idiotic parts in it as usual, but it manages to stay quite
interesting all the way to the end. I really loved the music in this
one, especially how it's used, the operatic twist in the bathtub
scene was pure brilliance. The cinematography is quite nice as well,
not the most stylistic from the genre, but still some shots looked
great. The biggest problem in this movie is the pacing, even though
the first murder happens before the titles, it takes it's time to get
started. But luckily towards the end it picked up quite nicely. Even
though this movie had most of the things right for a giallo, I was
still left hoping for more, apart from a few scenes it looked a bit
too familiar. But it's still a good movie and well worth watching.
78%
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