 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review. This is for deep red, which is a film by Dario Argento 1976 is when it was done and it is currently streaming on shutter because for a lot of these movie reviews I'm doing ones on shutter although not exclusively so you can go back and check a bunch of reviews I've done out on the channel real quick up front Please if you see anything that you like this video or any other video, please hit that subscribe It can mean a lot for my channel I want to grow it going forward and encourages me to make more videos and keep putting out the content I'm doing which I think I'm doing a decent job But at any rate any comments about anything or you just want to talk horror put it down in the comments Anyway, let's stop. Yeah, let's jump into deep red, which I have to be honest I haven't watched a whole lot of giallo films Which if people aren't familiar that's a subgenre of horror that was mainly done in the 1970s Although there have been some films that have been done outside of the 1970s that technically fit giallo It was a movement mainly in Italy Based off some books that giallo actually means yellow and Italian and a lot of these books had like yellow covers to them And it's kind of this mix of horror and gore and violence with suspense and mystery and thriller and it's a really cool interesting mix That I think is good not just for horror fans But it's also good for just people in general who like mystery who like crime who like suspense Thrillers, you know all that type of stuff So I actually believe that for me my wife's not into horror films But I think that's something like deep red especially after watching it She could really dig that because it's the idea of Unraveling a mystery as you go. Yes, there is blood in it But as I'll kind of talk about a little bit later. I don't think the blood looks all that great now This was done back in the 1970s and for a lot of those films, especially with Dario Argento I know he was using red paint because he wanted to be more thick He wanted the color to pop on screen a lot more. So yeah, but One thing that I really need to point out about giallo is that a lot of people say I don't know if this has been substantiated or not But a lot of people say that the giallo subgenre actually led to the American slasher film subgenre So without giallo, you would not have the American slasher which people obviously love slasher's which I really like slasher's and As I'm experiencing more giallo. I'm deciding I really like giallo so I'm just gonna go through my notes on my phone as I kind of put them down as I was watching the film Goblin's soundtrack becomes immediately apparent of how strong it is with this film and how Important it is to the film which real quick. Sorry if you hear my cat yelling in the background. I Apologize she does that from time to time when she's not getting attention She doesn't want to say anything about the film. Trust me So anyway, so goblin doing the soundtrack people talk about goblin all the time and when you watch an Argento film Specifically something like deep red you immediately get a really strong sense of why that is It's music that takes the forefront. It's not just there It kind of in the background it really jumps to the front of any scene that it's in and sometimes it feels like it doesn't really match necessarily what's going on in the film, but It's It kind of helps reshape the film are those scenes From time to time and there are times where I was definitely like, you know There's something kind of serious going on potentially scary And this goblin music is like in my opinion way too upbeat for what's going on But then at the same time I felt felt myself feeling like I feel like it's making it more fun though and more Interesting and then it was also like I was just loving the music like this is one film where and I don't think this often This is one film where I was like I would kind of like to own that soundtrack Because of how good and how fun and how interesting that goblin music is now I truly see like what all the talk is about but prior to this like I haven't watched a whole lot of Argento films I've seen Suspirion I think Suspirion kind of May have been the only one up until deep red right now. I know there are some people like head like oh my god He hasn't seen much Argento. He's iconic. I think I have seen a little bit more than just Suspirion But I can't think of anything off the top of my head at the moment, but yeah, this goblin music is great The dubbing kind of bothers me for a lot of people who don't know a lot of the yellow films Were dubbed into English and that's kind of the only way you can see them I don't even know if they were initially subtitled even but That that kind of stuff bothers me when I'm watching any type of film where the mouth movement isn't matching up with the words That said I think they did a fine job with the voice acting over it. It's just for me It's a personal thing where I'm just like I Like I have a hard time when those things aren't matching up It's just but you know, I kind of got used to it the the movie itself overcame that issue for me While I was watching it I did a little bit of research real quick and I was like I want to figure out like what people say are the best Jalo films Just for my personal satisfaction in because I want to kind of add them to a watching list So you may end up seeing more Jalo films popping up as reviews on this channel Which if you feel like yes, yes, please do that put that comment down there any other Once you want me to do as well just suggest down in the comments But I looked up and on internet movie database based off they'll have like genre areas where it's based off of Viewer scores, it'll give you like the top hundred or whatever films of a certain genre So they had the top one hunt or not. I don't think it's 100 like the top 50 Jalo films and deep red actually is number 13 on that list number one being blood and black lace Which I believe is a Mario Bava film and he's currently on shutter at the moment So I may be doing that one next potentially. I don't know. We'll find out. There's also Argento has some more on shutter to nebri to nebri and phenomena. I believe are both on there as well So I want to check those out as well These okay, so the camera work the cinematography is gorgeous in this film. It is beautiful It is amazing. Just the scenes in general look so so stylish so well put together. So pleasing aesthetically They put a lot of time into it Argento and his cinematographer put a lot of time into it And it's a situation where the shots are super interesting Like there's this one of this like really long shot of these people on a street in Italy And it was like a real long shot and like the one person's all the way on this side of this of the Screen and the other person's on this side and it's showing like this very large statue in between the two of them And it just looks so good and I really like shots like that where You know you you can it looks good for the content of of the storyline of what's going on in the story But it also gives you the opportunity to look around the scenery and see what's going on behind the people acting And that's something I really love about like studio Ghibli films I know they're not like, you know, there's not actual like cinematography like a camera But like something that Hayao Miyazaki does really well is he puts a lot of detail in the backgrounds and in the environments of those films and there's just so much to look around at that keeps you occupied Occupied and interested and I feel like this film kind of did that with its cinematography in the way the scenes were shot So I really really like that about it. It's just like it's a gorgeous film. It's very stylish and it's very very nice looking Lots of interesting close-ups to they have some interesting close-ups with interesting Perspectives like it's not just like a close-up like straight on it'll be like a close-up of like someone doing something A lot of times it's like the killer's gloved hands because that's another thing in giallo. It's always like black-loved hands So, yeah, I really like that that adds some fun to it The camera work So the camera work I was just talking about plus the way the suspense is done in it reminds me a lot of Hitchcock films Like most recently I watched psycho again I watched a rope which is one I hadn't seen before and is a very good Hitchcock film So I don't know there's just certain things about how they did the suspense and how the camera work was done Very hitch cocky and in my opinion The blood like I was saying I don't really like it's crazy thick. It's super super red Hold on a second Chloe if you got a problem you can come and get on the on the video Yeah, then she shuts up and walks away because she doesn't want to get on screen anyway Sorry about that. Yeah, so the blood it looks so ridiculously fake to me I don't know if it looked more realistic to people back in the 70s at that point or not, but to me hold on Chloe Either quiet or Come and get in the video. I Know people are like why are you talking to her like a human? She responds to me like a human. It's weird But anyway, yeah, so the blood for me is a no-go. I it just doesn't hold up in particular It doesn't hold up. I I don't know if I even if I was around in 1970s. I was born in the 80s I would have I don't know if I would have watched this film back then and been like oh the blood looks good or not But at the least it does not hold up over time. I don't like that aspect of it It makes it kind of cartoonish and like not very realistic, but whatever There's an odd comedic scene in this though. There's this thing where like It felt so out of place like there's things happening inside this woman's car We're like like the the visors flipping down and the guy can't figure out what's going on with like the door Or like rolling up and down the window and like all this crap and it felt very out of place because there's nothing else like that in the film and That was just probably my only real big Criticism of this film which just means this films pretty damn good if that's like your only major criticism This is the one little comedic scene It just felt out of place and it was weird people who have seen it and you're watching this You know what I'm talking about. I Like when films have what seemed to be innocuous scenes But they end up actually providing clues now There's one in particular that I picked up in this that led me to a very Important clue about who the killer was going to be because with all these giola films That's kind of how it is. You're gradually unraveling this mystery until you get to the end where you find out Who is the black gloved killer? And it's always like the big reveal so there was a clue and while I was watching the scene I was like, oh, I know this is gonna have something like something to do with the end with who it's gonna end up being and It just made me think like I love when that type of stuff happens because it's not only fun at the time It adds Additional fun on top of things because it makes you want to go back and rewatch the film So you can see where all of these little Easter eggs were kind of hidden where it's like Oh, I could have picked up on that there I could have picked up on that there like they left like better clues for you Which would tell you who it was throughout the film But you just didn't pick up on it because you're watching it for the first time and in retrospect when you know Who it is you can see all those on a second viewing so I like that type of stuff and they did that well The sets are super super stylish It looks super modern for the 1970s and it makes you think like man Italy looks so awesome and like modern and sleek and cool. This just goes along with the whole like camera work cinematography and the stylish scenes It's a very fun and engaging film. That's another thing there's a In addition to it being good with keeping the suspense going It's good with keeping the mystery going and it moves at a very nice pace where it's kind of gradually giving you peace by piece by piece of the puzzle and you're you're Discovering along with the main character and I feel like that's a really fun thing Not just in this, you know, this film particularly or this sub genre But any film that does it well and I feel like it's done really well here Like I said the pacing of it is very good They don't go too long without getting something intriguing happening happening in the story And that kind of leads me to another thing that I know I had written down by didn't just read it But when you look back on a film even this film a lot of these types of films That's just like a mystery. You're slowly unraveling the end story If it was just told chronologically or right up front like this is who the killer is and this is why they killed It's not a good story to be honest but the way they Make the way they give you the little pieces and they put the puzzle together very very slowly and then they reveal At the end makes it so much more fun so much more of a journey so much Better of a story than when you look back and you're like actually that's not a very good story It's actually kind of dumb and I feel like that's the case for deep red The underlying story of who the killer is and why they did it isn't good But the way the film was put together makes it so much more interesting than it actually is and so much more engaging and fun And that's that speaks to the filmmaking acumen It's it's filmmaking over the script kind of in a in my opinion As you hear my cat just continuing to complain The end for me the very very end is kind of over the top And I didn't like it too much people if you if you've already seen this or if you're going to see this You'll know what I'm talking about or you do know what I'm talking about It's a little too over the top in my opinion I would have liked it brought back a little bit, but that's a that's pretty minor So yeah, like I wrote down, you know, it's not really about the story with this because it's not that good It's about how it's told I wrote it's a scavenger hunt for the audience to get puzzle pieces And it makes it so much better that way because you feel like you're kind of actively a part of it because you're Consistently thinking you're like, okay. Well now this puzzle piece means potentially this Well now this makes me think that it's this person and then later you're like I don't know I don't think it's that person anymore because this indicates that it might be this person and it's just this is guessing game and These are types of films. I like I like to continually be thinking when I'm watching movies I'm not a person who likes stuff like Transformers or Fast and the Furious or something where it's very just straightforward And it's just like about action and what you're seeing is as far as you need to think like you don't need to think about the Whole film. It's just whatever senior on I like to just consistently be thinking about the entire movie and things like this definitely do that Then the last thing I wrote down is I don't feel like the title has anything to do with the actual movie Except the fact that deep red insinuates the the blood spill in the film, you know And the and the presence of gore and horror to it But deep red doesn't actually mean anything in the context of the actual story So I'm just kind of like yeah, it's just that's kind of weird I am interested to see as I watch even more giallo If that ends up being kind of a theme where it doesn't really have much to do with the stories And it's more just about having an interesting catchy title or drawing it to horror or thriller or Spence or whatever But overall, I really enjoyed this film. I had a great time with it I know this is considered to be one of Argento's better films and also one of the better giallo films so In a way, I guess it might be bad for me that I that I watched something considered so good so early Because now when I check out a bunch of other giallo films I might feel more let down because like here's my bar now and then everything else could come below it But we'll see at any rate. It was great. I love the film I would give it overall out of five stars with halves in play. I gotta give it a four and a half I don't think it's a perfect film but I think it's a wildly entertaining super fun stylish beautiful well acted and Well scripted for the style that it is So yeah, four and a half out of five stars. I really enjoyed it had a great time And I'm very excited to jump into more giallo. So thanks everyone for checking this out Please put some comments down there. Have you seen this? What do you think? Do you want to see it? 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