Terror in der Oper (1987)

Terror in der Oper: Directed by Dario Argento. With Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi. A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

“Willing suspension of disbelief. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYouu0026#39;ve got to have that for a horror flick, but the characters in this flick have got to be the dumbest lot that Argento has created. After the first murder, the main actress calls the police but wonu0026#39;t tell them anything about the murder. Then when a second character shows up, just driving around the city streets at night, she sits in his car, obviously distraught, but refuses to give any indication of what she has just been through. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enThe set piece where the killer is exposed is just as contrived, taking place in front of hundreds of people with no real indication that the killer would be at the scene.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen there is the ending, totally out of joint with the rest of the film, where for a moment we get the hope of something original, ala the book version of Hannibal, but no, once again we are presented with brain numbing absurdity.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile the Anchor Bay DVD is beautiful, and we have a nice documentary about the making of the film, I think Argento says it best when he states that u0026quot;After the movie he went to India for a while, because he thought he had made a bad movie.u0026quot; The documentary ends on that note, as does this review.”