Product: La Sindrome di Stendhal
Rating: 5.0
A haunting horror thriller from Argento!
Lovely female police detective Anna Manni (Asia Argento) was having a fine day at the museum at some city in Italy, until she started getting weird hallucinations called "Stendhal Syndrome" which causes bizarre images when she sees works of art. She does go after a serial killer that goes around raping and murdering people, Anna must know more of the killer's instincts and moves if her Stendhal Syndrome doesn't get in the way.Very artsy and gory psychological horror fantasy thriller from Italy's greatest horror master Dario Argento offers surreal imagery, gory violence especially the realistic razorblade to the lip sequence that will make you cringe, and a creepy score by Ennio Morricone. Dario's daughter Asia is truly gorgeous in this picture as the detective, the film does have scares and good focus on characterizations. It's a very original and stunning horror-feast for fans of the genre and Italian horror movies, it's totally one of Argento's best movies.This 2-Disc DVD contains quality picture and sound plus the uncut uncensored version of the film with both English language and Italian language with English subtitles. Extras include Theatrical Trailer, interview with Dario Argento and five featurettes with the filmmakers.Also recommended: "Saw Quadrilogy", "Re-Animator", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Tenebre", "Phenomena", "Deep Red", "Suspiria", "Opera", "City of the Living Dead (a.k.a. Gates of Hell)", "Perfect Blue", "Demons", "The New York Ripper", "The Card Player", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Silence of the Lambs", "Psycho (1960)", "Vertigo", "The Untold Story", "Audition", "Ichi The Killer", "Bird with the Crystal Plumage", "The Devil's Rejects", "House of 1000 Corpses", "Hannibal Rising", "Manhunter", "Se7en", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2", "Inferno", "Maniac (1980)", "Ringu", "Ju-On: The Grudge", "Halloween (1978)" and "Scream".