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  A Blade in the Dark 1983

  ★½ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025

  Extremely mediocre. The twist is a mockery. The characters and their motivations are ridiculous - which is not that uncommon for giallo, but generally there's other qualities going on which balance that out, and that's not the case here. This was made-for-TV and you can tell as much. You can also tell Lamberto had been working on the excellent "Tenebrae" by Dario Argento as there are moments which are directly borrowed stylistically: the only redeeming quality is that the cinematography isn't awful. It also seemed rushed, but then again I don't know how the fact that they cut it for cinema instead of TV influenced that.

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  Rift 2017

  ★★½ Added

  A film that seemed promising in that it started out as a drama with erotic elements thrown in - it worked quite well with the beautiful landscapes and photography, despite suffering from the plague that haunts a lot of modern cinema - color grading basically creating a teal and orange look. That was not very distracting, though, as it complimented a lot of the scenes - a smart move from the director. Some time after, it started introducing sub-plot after…

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  Body of Evidence 1993

  ½ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Sangue Toureiro 1958

  ★½ Added

  A significant movie, only in that it was the first to be made in color from Portugal. The rest is really quite abysmal. Before the viewers' eyes, the whole concept of cinema is lost, as director Augusto Fraga (the main actress, singer Amália Rodrigues, later confessed she only took the part because of their friendship) was mostly used to filming short clips of music and it shows. It fails in form essentially by being formulaic to the fullest extent, as…

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