Death Smiles on a Murderer

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Audience Member This is not a bad picture really and it is pretty faithful to the source material. There are a number of Edgar Allen Poe allusions that are quite flattering to him. Klaus Kinski is awesome as always and I could look at Angela Bo all day long! She is gorgeous, talented and I think often overlooked. Also gorgeous and talented is Carla Mancini but sadly her role and presence in this film are far too short. It is a successful period piece as the costumes, props and settings are not only accurate for the time period that the story takes place in, but strikingly beautiful and interesting to look at! I recommend this one! It certainly is one of Joe D'Amato's best films! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member A Movie with Many Horrors--D'Amato's maze of death and desire!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Doom metal of Horror movies: slow paced, twisted, illogical, heavy, just plain shocky. +Kinski, +Soundtrack. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Most of the time I didn't have a clue what was going on... but, hell I still liked it a lot. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Joe D'Amato near incomprehensible weirdness (you say that like it's a bad thing!), and a little Kinski never hurt anybody. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member An early Joe D'Amato film, quite different from his later efforts. Although the film does feature some violence it is light years away from the brutality of his later films, such as Buio Omega or Anthropophagus.It is also a lot more slow paced than the aforementioned films. This film feels more like a tranquil, gothic visual poem. The film features long montages, carried forward by a fantastic score (which is very Italian, i.e. lyrical and beautiful, in that poignant, unimitable Spaghetti way), which feels like a music video set to the imagery of Edgar Allan Poe. The plot of the film, as suggested, borrows heavily from the ideas of Edgar Allan Poe, most notably from The Fall of the House of Usher, but fuses together those ideas with a lot of its own, unique, and somewhat quirky ideas. Klaus Kinski is birlliant as always, as the emotionally aloof doctor, the rest of the cast is a mixed bag, but overall the film features solid performances, living up to the standards one has come to expect from the geniality of the realm of Italian exploitation cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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