First off Elizabeth Taylor is hot as fukk in this movie. Second I'm stunned it came out in 1959, some of the themes it covers or hints at were quite taboo at the time. Very good suspense film. Very theatrical as it's based on a play but don't sleep on this brehs. Don't watch the trailer!
Dario Argento flicks, old school Giallo films. I really want to get more into the sub genre, those Italian directors bunch of creative stuff. Check out the plots to some of Argento's films they suck you in and are such simple set ups but the stories are good.
Tenebre
The Bird with the Crystal Plummage
Suspiria
Four Flies on Grey Velvet(Also Argento along with The Cat O' Nine Tails worth a watch too)
Deep Red
Opera
Similar plots right? But they all change up when you watch them. It proves that you can take a simple idea and use it in different ways to get different results. Just don't marathon watch them, you might start to get sick of the genre. I love it though.
There's other Giallo films I haven't even seen yet(by other Directors like Mario Bava) but the plots sound interesting and I've heard good things about them. I want to watch them eventually.
I also recommend Agatha Christie who I haven't even jumped into fully, she writes a Mystery/Suspense and Detective stories and they have been adapted into several films and tv series.
Yep, unappreciated film. Hitchcock is one of my favorite directors along with Tarantino(who many would say me being black that I shouldn't like some of his film dialogue and I agree he does go overboard with nikka on some films but man I just enjoy his whole film catalog so much.) Even stuff like Death Proof which many people hated, I really enjoyed it. The stuff he does in his films, the plots, the creativity, same with Hitchcock even though are two completely different types of directors.
Speaking of Hitchcock I have to give another shoutout to another one of his films I feel is under appreciated.
Man this movie was so good but rarely talk about it when discussing Hitchcock. You can't even tell people to look up the film because google ruins one of the best shots in the film. And man the ENDING of the film is one of my favorites ever. The way the credits just come in, I don't even wanna say anything to ruin it but the film is great.
Speaking of endings the way Rope ends is so powerful.
The way Jimmy Stewart is talking to them like children "DID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOD?!" and then the sirens come in.
i find it interesting that you highlight the plots when i find those to be one of the worst features of dario's movies. in deep red, the plot barely makes any sense. if it were truly as simple as the description, it would have been a perfect movie.
seven
the usual suspects
the sixth sense
the prestige
memento
the girl with the dragon tattoo (either version)
inception
zodiac
silence of the lambs
i saw the devil
honorable mentions: old boy, primal fear, no country for old men
1. blade runner
2. chinatown
3. blow out
4. la confidential
5. the town that dreaded sundown
6. le samourai
7. touch of evil
8. mullholland drive
9. blue velvet
10. donnie darko
HONORABLE MENTION
1. deep red
2. zodiac
3. north by northwest
4. strangers on a train
5. night of the hunter
OBSERVATIONS...
wow, david lynch got two on my list!
holy shyt, hitchcock is only in the honorable mentions, but at least he is there twice, LOL
cant believe a scifi flick is at the top of the list but it is noir enough to fit (i almost put videodrome in here)
i dissed dario argento's plotting skills, but deep red is worth the mention
zodiac was almost great, but it is just missing something to take it over the edge...
My father is is a very dedicated and metaphoric director in my country! I got a university degree as a film director too, but i just can't consider myself a director yet! To be great at that profession i think you need to have lived enough!
When i watched that movie i was stunned.... So simplistic, so brutal in it's honesty and so creative in making me believe in the story!
The scene where the victim's boyfriend says: "YOU PROMISED ME A LIFE SENTENCE" and you see the little jail cell in the country side is just ...
i find it interesting that you highlight the plots when i find those to be one of the worst features of dario's movies. in deep red, the plot barely makes any sense. if it were truly as simple as the description, it would have been a perfect movie.
I was along for the ride and I didn't get too confused years ago. I would have remembered that and not even listed it. I do also believe there's 2 different versions of some of his films where they cut things out and it messes up how the plot was originally supposed to be understood. There was a version of Tenebre that cut out a whole death scene, IIRC. Since a lot of his films were so violent, it's like they cut out too much some times and characters die but it's only mentioned by dialogue later in some versions because they cut the death scene out.
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it seemed a bit ridiculous
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after work & in between fixin the whip. Se7en is :hoganpraise: