I'm very much an Argento fan, having seen everything he's directed for film and TV from The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) to Dark Glasses (2022) I think except The Five Days (1973) and Dracula 3D (2012). Likewise I've seen almost everything he's written and/or produced, at least from 1970 onward.
I was very hopeful regarding Onirica. However, the look of the movie simply doesn't resemble Argento's style (certainly not his best pre-2001 work), and the murder set pieces similarly lack his panache. Some of what does stand out in Onirica isn't even an attempt at a poor imitation of Argento, but apparently quirks of Onirica's own director: repetitive shots of buildings, and a corny black and white hypnosis scene in which a character wears simplistic skull-like makeup, and dances about in an inverted shot.
Aside from that, the English subtitles seem to have been done by either bad AI or somebody with only some familiarity with English grammar who then made recourse to an Italian-English dictionary for word choices, often settling on something that was wrong. E.g. A detective saying "we may have a trace" when what was meant was apparently "we may have a lead."
Revisit your favorite Argento films, watch some of their DVD or blu-ray extras. Skip Onirica.
I was very hopeful regarding Onirica. However, the look of the movie simply doesn't resemble Argento's style (certainly not his best pre-2001 work), and the murder set pieces similarly lack his panache. Some of what does stand out in Onirica isn't even an attempt at a poor imitation of Argento, but apparently quirks of Onirica's own director: repetitive shots of buildings, and a corny black and white hypnosis scene in which a character wears simplistic skull-like makeup, and dances about in an inverted shot.
Aside from that, the English subtitles seem to have been done by either bad AI or somebody with only some familiarity with English grammar who then made recourse to an Italian-English dictionary for word choices, often settling on something that was wrong. E.g. A detective saying "we may have a trace" when what was meant was apparently "we may have a lead."
Revisit your favorite Argento films, watch some of their DVD or blu-ray extras. Skip Onirica.