Reviewing movies and series since 2012

09/04/2012

Opera

Also known as "Terror at the Opera", this movie was directed in 1987 by Dario Argento and tells the story of a young opera singer who's stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. 
It stars Christina Marshillach, Ian Charleson and Urano Barbeini. 

This movie doesn't make any sense. The characters are as flat as a table, the main character's reactions are incomprehensible and the motives behind the killings very loosely explained. 

But the killings are very nasty and gore. Most of the violence is done off screen or with closeups to something else. But it's the fact that the killer forces the opera singer to watch every  murder by gluing needles beneath her eyes. It has a lot of reference to the eyes which is kind of really creepy.

I think the idea wasn't bad, but it wasn't well developed. 

OPERA TRAILER

If you're a fan of horror movies, you could check this one out, but I don't really recommend it to you. There are loads of better horror movies around. 

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