Massacre (1989)

Massacre (1989). Massacre: Directed by Andrea Bianchi. With Gino Concari, Patrizia Falcone, Silvia Conti, Pier Maria Cecchini. A red gloved killer sporting gaudy Miami Vice style mirrored shades, brutally assaults a prostitute with a blade. The killings continue and it all has something to do with the film crew that's in town making a horror movie.

“Massacre is pretty bad film, but it is not impossible to watch, but the viewer has to be Italo freak in order to sit through this. Letu0026#39;s make it straight: During credits and awful music, we see one pretty nasty (and dull) axe murder as a mysterious driver stops his car and kills a hooker standing by the side of the road with an axe. Then, the film begins, and NOTHING happens for next 45 minutes or so. It is sooo boring, but during the end, body count rises again and the u0026quot;plotu0026quot; seems to tighten. The film follows a film crew which is shooting a horror film, and soon the members start to disappear as the mystery madman with an axe or other blades kills people. Doesnu0026#39;t sound too original, but it does not matter when weu0026#39;re talking about this kind of cinema.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are unfortunately not many worth mentioning merits in this film. The music or other elements are not special and the over all look of Massacre is very dull and often stupid. But there are still few atmospheric moments in the forest and in the dark, and so we get that old feel of watching a really great Italian horror film, but this only reminds me distantly of those classics. The film could have been worse, but I must say that it should have definitely been much better! But Iu0026#39;m happy there are those mentioned moments, and I think that this is pretty rare title and thus collectable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI will also mention, that (almost) all the gore scenes in Massacre were used in Lucio Fulciu0026#39;s Un Gatto nel Cervello (aka Cat in a Brain aka Nightmare Concert), too. Many scenes from Fulciu0026#39;s own Quando Alice Ruppe lo Specchio (rare!) are in Nightmare Concert, too! I viewed first Nightmare Concert, and so there were no new murder scenes for me when I viewed Massacre, and it also made me feel a little frustrated. I didnu0026#39;t know that these scenes are in Fulciu0026#39;s film, even though I knew that Fulci used scenes from other films. But it doesnu0026#39;t matter, because Italo fans are used to be very forgiving and understanding! Fulciu0026#39;s mentioned Nightmare Concert is one hell of a gore fest, and the murders from Massacre fit in there well among others. So if you have already seen Un Gatto nel Cervello (akas: Nightmare Concert, Cat in a Brain) and havenu0026#39;t seen Massacre, then there are no new gory moments to see, but I hope that fans watch these films not only for gore or violence, because the thing I love most in Italian horror cinema is the atmosphere never matched by other countriesu0026#39; efforts. Massacre definitely isnu0026#39;t a great example of Italian mastery, but the viewing is a curiosity for fanatics and for those interested in the disturbed cinema of writer/director Andrea Bianchi, whose other merits include Malabimba and weird and wonderful (?) Zombie 3 aka Nights of Terror aka Burial Ground.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMassacre earns 5/10 but only if one is as forgiving as I am, because watched as a u0026quot;seriousu0026quot; (horror)film, Massacre fails miserably.”