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Compulsion by Neil Marshall Oh wow. Neil Marshall, the iconic horror filmmaker and the author of Dog Soldiers and The Descent, made perhaps the best tribute ever to Italian giallo cinema — I’d even say to Dario Argento’s classics from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. The camera style and shot angles; a very particular 80s electronic synth score; Argento’s signature killer scenes in POV, the unapologetic “torture porn” of sharp objects piercing though flesh; several Italian actors / actresses speaking English with heavy accents; the unrestrained erotic tension coupled with sometimes poorly scripted dialogue (yet for classic Italian thrillers this is an essential feature — it makes you focus more on the gore and the macabre); even the very font of the credits… it is all so perfectly styled — and beautiful, if you get it. This is a film buff’s dream: a feast for the senses and the ultimate post-modern tribute to the great Italian genre. No moralizing, just pure sensation. And to make it even more insane, Marshall decided to introduce probably the longest and definitely one of the bloodiest stabbing scenes cinema has ever seen. The only thing I can compare it to, in terms of intensity, is maybe Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, when the underpass scene with Monica Bellucci made audiences twitch and look away — or the absolute rawness of Michael Haneke’s Benny’s Video and the original Funny Games. Insane, really. A must-watch for giallo cineastes. Not for mainstream audiences. Ссылка скрыта