Friday, January 3, 2020

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)


The debut of Dario Argento is responsible for making popular the giallo subgenre. The film is a stunning horror movie that has the murder mystery for story and a wonderful twist in the end. The style of Dario Argento with the bright colors and the stylish killings that would later evolve more, is here to be found in its beginning, in its birth in a movie that can be called without hesitation one of his best film till that day. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage has a breathtaking atmosphere, of murder and secrets, it has riddle written all over it and it comes as a fantasizing B movie-like horror movie that is here to conquer your interest for some time.
The black leather, the weird and eccentric knives, the screams, the horror and the secrets are some of the elements that drive this beauty to its memorable lair. Build upon impression and memory The Bird With The Crystal Plumage is a movie that deeply satisfies the audience with its labyrinth story and genuine murder mystery. Alhtough a movie that was heard much outside Italy, it still is relatively unknown to a wide audience and that is a shame because we are talking about one of the most interesting horror movies that you can find. The style of that film stays highly influential for future horror movies and also it stays a style that would follow Dario Argento for the rest of his career. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage is one of those movies that are here to give you something different in story and in style and have inside of them a different kind of devil, a devil that speaks the words of aesthetic.

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