Deep Red (1975)
8/10
It is an amazing giallo
4 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It was magnificent! I didn't expect to watch such a masterpiece. Carl the English pianist in Rome got interested in the murder of a Jewish woman with telekinetic powers. Somebody killed her before she named the killer in the hall during the conference on telekinetic powers. Carl was living in the same building as her and he saw her getting killed by the window while he were chatting with his pianist friend Carlo working at the Blue Bar. Carlo had a boyfriend and was an alcoholic and having some anxiety attacks. Gianna the journalist woman (i liked her character the most) and Marc got to solve the mystery. The professor told Marc about a book on the ghosts after he told about the child song he heard when the killer broke into his apartment. Then Amanda (I guess she's the writer of the book I missed that) was killed brutally in her house. She was drown in the bathtub full of boiling water. Before dying she got to write something on the mirror in the vapor and the professor got to read it when the cleaning lady opened the hot water for cleaning. The black birds, hanged dolls, her house was really creepy. Then Marc found the house in the book. It was such a splendid abandoned house. The man looking after the house had a daughter and she drew the same murder scene that Marc found under the plaster of the wall inside the house. But the drawing wasn't carved totally. There was another person in the picture. The killer wasn't the kid he's only holding the bloody knife. Then they found the name of the student from the school archive after the daughter that's into macabre stuff told them she saw it in the school archive. Then Marco showed up with a gun after stabbing Gianna. He said Marc should have stay away from all this and ran away when he saw the officers. And he got caught on a hook behind a garbage truck and got dragged along the road until his head was smashed by a car. He wasn't the killer of course because he was with Marc when the first murder happened and the painting that Marc saw in the psychiatrist woman's home wasn't a picture but a reflection on the mirror on the wall of the killer and it was Marco's mother. She killed Marco's father on Christmas when he wanted her to stay in the psychiatric hospital again. The dead body in the secret room that Marc found in that beautiful abandoned villa was that man. His dead body was sitting in the chair by the Christmas tree. She tried to kill Marc but her necklace got stuck against the railing of the elevator and her head got cut off when Marc pushed the button of the elevator. It was such an amazing movie. I liked the score, the locations, the atmosphere and the killer above all. It sounds weird but she looked really so sinister at the last scene with such a white face and dark eye makeup. When Marc visited Marco at his house, her mother who's a former actress really intrigued me but I could never guessed that. I always thought it was Gianna because we got to see the eye of the killer.
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