Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Handschuhe (1970)

Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Handschuhe: Directed by Dario Argento. With Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi. An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

“Dario Argento ,in the Italian horror movie field is second to none,with the eventual exception of Mario Bava.The young generations ,as I wrote in my u0026quot;profondo rossou0026quot; review,do not know,have no idea that he was slagged off by the u0026quot;earnestu0026quot; u0026quot;intellectual u0026quot; critics for years before they realized he was actually a genuine auteur.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Ucellou0026quot; was to the Italian horror cinema what u0026quot;Rosemaryu0026#39;s babyu0026quot; was to the American one.By combining Bavau0026#39;s stunning lighting effects with Hitchcocku0026#39;s sense of space and of suspense,Argento created a genre I would depict as u0026quot;horror operau0026quot;.Although itu0026#39;s not his first work,itu0026#39;s the one which asserted his skill.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHitchcock comes to mind when the hero (Musante) sees a murder in a room he cannot enter.Here the sentence u0026quot;thereu0026#39;s more to the picture than meets the eyeu0026quot; perfectly describes the extraordinary first scene.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eArgentou0026#39;s geometry is non -Euclidian,no one used the setting as he did :the lighthouse in this film,the houses in u0026quot;infernou0026quot; ,the corridors in u0026quot;suspiriau0026quot; ,the list is endless.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd most of all, when contemporary screenplays take barely two or three pages,Argentou0026#39;s stories,even if they are full of implausibilities , grab the audience,take them into a maze ,where they lose themselves with delight.The stories have their own logic,never the viewer feels disappointed when the solution is revealed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYou are not a true horror movies buff if you do not know Argentou0026#39;s best works (roughly the sixties thru the eighties)”