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Jun 11, 1976 · Deep Red: Directed by Dario Argento. With David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril. A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
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- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Dario Argento
- 1976-06-11
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In 1956, during Christmas at a family home, an unseen figure stabs another to death. A bloody knife falls to the floor at a child's feet. Twenty years later in Turin, Professor Giordani chairs a parapsychology conference featuring psychic mediumHelga Ulmann. Helga is suddenly overwhelmed by the "twisted, perverted, murderous" thoughts of someone in...
Deep Red represented Argento's return to the horror genre after an attempted breakaway with the historical dramedy The Five Days (1974). It was his last giallo film before Tenebre(1982), which was produced years after the genre's heyday. The film was also his first collaboration with actress Daria Nicolodi, with whom he would begin a relationship d...
The film was shot mainly on-location in Turin in sixteen weeks. Additional scenes were shot in Rome and Perugia. Argento chose Turin because at the time there were more practising Satanists there than in any other European city, excluding Lyon. He had previously shot parts of The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) in the city. Filming locations included Sant...
Deep Red was released in Milan and Rome in Italy on 7 March 1975.In the United States, the film first premiered in New York City on 9 June 1976 and saw a wide theatrical releaseon 11 June 1976 by the defunct US independent film distributor Howard Mahler Films. The film was once again re-releasedand re-titled in the US on 18 January 1980, as The Hat...
Argento originally contacted jazz pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini to score the film; however, he was unhappy with Gaslini's output. After failing to get Pink Floyd to replace Gaslini, Argento turned back to Italy and found Goblin, a local progressive rock band. Their leader Claudio Simonetti impressed Argento by producing two compositions with...
Two key sequences in this film influenced directors of later horror movies: the lead-up to the famous exploding head scene in David Cronenberg's Scanners is modeled after the parapsychology discussion at the beginning of Deep Red, and Rick Rosenthal's Halloween IIcontains a scalding water death inspired by the death of Giuliana Calandra's character...
The original Italian version is 126 minutes long. Most US versions remove 22 minutes' worth of footage, including the most graphic violence, all humorous scenes, almost all of the romantic scenes b...The US video release by Anchor Bay Entertainment is mostly restored, reinstating gore shots and scenes with dialogue that were cut from the initial US release. It was likely that these scenes were...The later DVD release from Blue Undergroundis the exact version mentioned above. Also, Blue Underground released an "Uncensored English Version" on DVD on 17 May 2011. This cut of the film runs no...The film had no UK theatrical release. The 1993 Redemption video was cut by 11 seconds to remove a brief scene of two dogs fighting and shots of a live lizard impaled with a pin. The 2005 Platinum...Deep Red at IMDbDeep Red at AllMovieDeep Red is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive– 98 minute edited U.S. theatrical version (101 minutes with credits) in pan-and-scan formatCommentary by DVD Talk critic Michael Mackenzie Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback MachineA psychic medium (Macha Méril) is brutally murdered, and musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) feels a need to solve the case, since he was the one who discovered the body. Working with him is ...
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Summaries. A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic. A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim.
© 2024 Google LLC. Dario Argento is an undisputed master of horror, and 1975's giallo Deep Red is arguably his first masterpiece. The maestro's first giallo film after the crit...
Jul 12, 2018 · Watch. “Deep Red” By Elaina Patton. July 12, 2018. Photograph by AF archive / Alamy. Before Dario Argento directed “Suspiria”—his most notorious film, and the inspiration for Luca...
Oct 19, 2023 · Deep Red (1975) Movie Review: A Hitchcockian Giallo on Voyeurism with a Touch of the Supernatural. Review. Aneesh Raikundalia October 19, 2023. About midway into the twisted murder spree at the center of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (Original Title: Profondo rosso), a character is asked who could be behind the killings and answers: “A maniac, who else?
