A serial killer on the loose with an unusual M.O., a protagonist desperately trying to understand something unusual that he heard, lashings of J & B, confused female characters who are little more than lambs for the slaughter. Everything that would characterise a film as a Giallo if it were Italian, but this is De Palma so it's not Giallo. It's just very stylish Hitchcock rip off.
Can we watch Coed Fever next JoeFest?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Giallo! Love this movie, even if it totally goes off rails towards the end Plenty of fireworks at least...Travolta is fantastic, Nancy Allen is awful, Lithgow is mental.
ReplyDeleteHuh apparently De Palma hasn't watched any Argento apart from the Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Mate, try Tenebrae and Deep Red - they're right up your street!
ReplyDeleteDe Palma in a more restrained mode than i expected/hoped for, but still a high calibre slice of trash.
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