Cristina Marsillach
Betty
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Dec 19, 1987 · With Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi. A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Dario Argento
- 1987-12-19
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, also known as Terror at the Opera, is a 1987 Italian giallo horror film written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini and Ian Charleson. The film's score was composed by Brian Eno and Claudio Simonetti. The film was released in the United States under the title Terror at the Opera. The film was one of Ar...
The film centers around young, insecure opera singer Betty (Cristina Marsillach). After the lead in Verdi's Macbeth is injured in a car accident, Betty is reluctantly thrust into the role in the opera. During her first performance, a murder takes place in one of the opera boxes. Mysterious murders continue throughout the film as Betty is stalked an...
Title Performer/Composer Publisher
•"White Dakeness"
•"Balance"
•"From the Beginning"
Brian Eno and Roger Eno By Arrangement with Opal Ltd, London
•"Opera"
•Cristina Marsillach as Betty
•Ian Charleson as Marco
•Urbano Barberini as Inspector Alan Santini
•Daria Nicolodi as Mira
•Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni as Giulia
•Antonella Vitale as Marion
The theater to which refers the movie is the Parma Opera House.
currently has an approval rating of 83% on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on twelve reviews. AllMovie called the film "a decent, fairly typical Argento film that is worth watching primarily for its above-average murder sequences."
Theatrical trailer of "Terror at the Opera aka Opera" by Dario Argento. Starring Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Corali...
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The Giallo of CinemaAJ and Chris review the 1987 Dario Argento classic, Opera!For our other videos and our podcast please visit: www.Bad-Movie-Night.com Film...
Mar 15, 2015 · Terror at the Opera, or just Opera as it would later be called, featured a glimpse of soprano obsession not seen since the film Diva (1981) and the much later Las Hijas De Danao (2014). The plot of Argento's bloody film is as follows: "A young opera singer (Betty) gets her big chance when the previous star of a production of Verdi's Macbeth is ...
Believe it or not, Orion Pictures planned on releasing an R-rated version of this in the US called Terror at the Opera with eleven minutes of mayhem removed, as well as the Swiss Alps epilogue. Argento refused and Orion was losing money at a fast clip, so the movie only saw a limited video release.
