If I were to sit here and rate and write reviews of every old movie based on their importance to cinema, I'd have to give the majority of them a perfect score. I don't write reviews like that, and I find people who do misleading.
Walking home after work, a writer witnesses an attack at a museum gallery and is taken into custody as a witness and possible suspect forcing him and his girlfriend to solve a spree of murders from a black-gloved maniac which soon puts them as a potential target on the hit list as they try to avoid becoming another victim.This really has a lot going for it and is one of the best Italian horror films of all time.
An American gets trapped in Rome after witnessing an attempted murder and has to try and solve the case himself in order to be allowed to leave, but the murderer isn't done killing yet and might make him one of his next victims.Dario Argento leapt onto the scene with this film and it carries many of the hallmarks of his work that was still to come.
Dario Argento's first effort as a filmmaker is still one of the all-time best gialli. It is entertaining and involving from beginning to end and features its share of suspenseful moments.
This film I think might be the second ever Dario Argento film that I saw. I know my first was Suspiria and then I believe this one.
This was Dario Argento's first film and boy, is it ever impressive as he shows quite a wonderful and beautiful style in just his opening feature.Pretty darn quick into the film that plot takes shape as Tony Musante plays Sam Dalmas who is an American writer witnesses the attempted murder of Monica Ranieri (Eva Renzi) who owns the very art gallery that this crime takes place.
American writer in Italy passes a museum one evening and sees a woman being assaulted she lives, but the police focus their attention on the witness, who turns amateur detective to find the attacker, who may be responsible for a recent series of murders involving young women. Dario Argento made his debut as writer-director on this Italian-made murder-mystery (or giallo) that has suspense sequences worthy of Hitchcock but a plot that doesn't bear close scrutiny (particularly near the end).
I last saw this at the theatre, almost 5 decades ago. As mentioned in my headline, the term 'serial killer' was not in use yet.