Deep Red (1975)
Deep Red or Profondo rosso is a giallo movie from 1975. It was directed by Dario Argenzo and features David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi. The music was made by Goblin an Italian band that made more scores like Suspiria for Agento.
Plot
Professor Giordani is attending a parapsychology conference and meets psychic medium Helga Ulmann. Helga sufdenly has a vision that someone will murder and hears a childrens song. Later that night, a black-gloved figure enters Helga’s apartment and attacks her with a meat cleaver. Jazz musician Marcus Daly sees the murder from the window as he passes by, and rushes to her apartment, finding her mutilated corpse.
Notable scenes
The scene with the walking puppet gets chills down your spine.
Making of Deep Red
The close-up shots of the killer’s hands, clad in black leather gloves, were performed by Dario Argento.
After the success of Dario Argento’s next film Suspiria (1977), “Profondo Rosso” was released in Japan as Suspiria 2.
At first the script was more than 500 pages. When the father of Argento read the script, he was shocked by the length.Then it was cut by Dario to 321 pages.
Our view on Deep Red
One of the best Giallo movies with a good balance between twists, storyline and lots of blood. Dario Argento gets you at the edge of your chair and there are some straight off chilling scenes in Deep Red. Exploitflix thumbs up!
Trailer
Where to buy
DVD/VHS/Betamax/VCC
Watch on Dailymotion
Details
Genre: giallo
Released in: 1975
Era: seventies
Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi
Director: Dario Argento
Poster artist: unknown-artist
Country: Italy
