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Argento's most underrated film

posted 14 years ago by BrianCTyler
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I thought this film had an interesting premise, good acting, good atmosphere, good music, etc. The twist was very well done and there's even a cameo from the great Brad Dourif.

This movie made me fall in love with Asia Argento. She's so great as a damaged teenager, I wanted to take her in and take care of her myself. It was also a fearless performance for her age.

Overall it's a great mystery, and the only flaws are that the deaths get a little repetitive, there's a couple plot holes, and one death that I think was supposed to pay homage to VERTIGO didn't come out very well.

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[–] guigui-paul 14 years ago

I agree,underrated,solid,beautiful and moving film...Asia is great in it and i think that Chris Rydell also did a very good job.

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[–] Mugatu666 13 years ago

Absolutely, better than many of his others. Quite beautiful in its own way and respectably acted for once.

[–] keith66-1 13 years ago

I've always enjoyed this film. Rydell's acting is bad in some scenes, and the screaming head down the elevator shaft doesn't work, but other than that it's solid in my book.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 12 years ago

I enjoyed it. It was more quirky and quite humorous in a Hitchcock way until the end when David (Rydell) went into the house. That bit was creepy. I think the film was very Hitchcock - macabre and twisted psychologies.

It's better than its IMDb rating for sure.

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[–] javiikiller 10 years ago

I agree about the Asia performance. And she was really beautiful.

[–] IrinaOma 10 years ago

100% agree with you!! Trauma is my 2nd favorite film by Dario Argento (after Tenebrae). So criminally underrated

[–] franzkabuki 10 years ago

No idea what kind of cinematic crap the OP has grown up on, but none of the aspects cited is anywhere close to "good"; typically for Argento, the story is nothing short of idiotic and the telling woefully inept - in particular, the dialogue presents a new low even by the director's usual terrible standards and most of the acting's so bad it really needs to be seen to be believed (the usually reliable Frederic Forrest has somehow been coached to one of the worst performances ever... now how the hell was 'that' accomplished?). And the film itself should just about fit into the bottom 20 or so movies out of more than 2000 I've seen. Thusly, the only relevant question here remains who is giving this hack money to manufacture this manure? This time, the boneheaded Italian doesn't even manage a single suspenseful, atmospheric scene - something he was occasionally capable of even in dumb schlock like Tenebre or Phenomena. I don't believe the guy could have made a worse film if he tried.

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[–] Rolling-action 10 years ago

I always thought Trauma was UNDERATTED with its damaged,walked out characters,disturbing scenes, and atmosphere.In what movie do we get to hear SPOILER SPOILER*********
About a Bambino being decapitated and the freaking corpse is up in the killers stash house!!!! The smokey lighting predates SEVEN.

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