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Death
Walks At Midnight |
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| Supplied By: Boum Productions |
Valentina experiments with a new hallucination drug which
ends in misery as she witnesses a girl getting brutally murdered.
A day goes by and she doesn't worry too much about it until
she starts seeing the killer again. Stalked and scared, Valentina
sets out to find the truth about the brutal murder.
And so another rare and forgotten giallo is put on DVD for
display to the public. This time it's not a very good one.
It's not the classic kind of giallo since the bodycount is
ridiculously low and we know how the killer looks all along.
This is more a stalker thriller than a giallo really. The
story never seemed to go anywhere though and it was all
pretty far fetched to be interesting.
Luciano Ercoli is one of the European horror directors that
didn't become famous for the afterworld. It's a pity since
the directing is quite good, well, not even close to as good
as Argento ofcourse but it still looks good and the use of
colours is excellent and very eye-catching.
The acting is another story though, while the version I watched
was dubbed, you could still tell that the actors weren't very
talented since the face expressions were exaggerated many
times. These are all no name actors though and they never got
anywhere except from some smaller parts in some cheap giallos
and soft-core porno’s. Oh well, that's Italy in the 70's for you.
Death walks at midnight was pretty disappointing considering
it had a really cool box art, which made the movie out to look
really gory. Well it didn't live up to the cover at all but
it looks good in my DVD shelf and the UK release that I saw
was really quite extraordinary with remastered sound and very
crisp picture. It keeps you awake for one and a half hour and
I thought it was a pretty descent flick even if it could have
been a lot better so I've decided to give it two stars.
Disappointingly there was very little gore to be found in this
unknown slasher. Some bloodsplatter is nothing to get the barf
bags for, nah, this was pretty dry.
Sounds very standard 70's giallos actually with the drums banging
and everything. Some unordinary 70's disco pop is also part of
the soundtrack, it was alright, they could have done better.
This is for die-hard giallo fans only, and I'm not one of them,
in fact, I think giallos are pretty dull for most of the time
with a few exceptions. It didn't live up to the small expectations
that I had but come to think about it, very few movies do.
Review By: AnthroFred
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