Review of Deep Red

Deep Red (1975)
3/10
He's absolutely trying to kill me, y'know?
1 May 2011
The quote sums up the whole film: ludicrous. A stupid, ridiculous film, redeemed only slightly by some original suspense sequences- alas about the only "Original" thing about the entire film. I went into this wanting to love it, and I'm very hard to disappoint when it comes to horror, if it's a good horror then great, if it's a bad horror then (usually) even better! However, this particular film was not even so bad that it was good.... it was just plain bad. I could not wait for it to end. The film was naive, unclear, completely disjointed and unthought-through. It's almost as if a group of 12 yr olds wrote the plot: playing on every nonsensical horror cliché in the book, and not bothering to link any of it together. In saying this, the directing and camera-work was pretty amazing, sadly not amazing enough to completely redeem the film. There are some really original shots and sequences, but overall a thoroughly rudimentary thriller.
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