I've heard it said that Italian director Dario Argento has somewhat of a cult following. 'The Bird with the Crystal Plumage', his first feature film, seemed like as good a place to start as any. This film promised to be a 'Hitchcock-esque' thriller with an Ennio Morricone soundtrack...we were sold!
Our hero, Sam, witnesses the attempted murder of a glamorous art gallery owner, played by Eva Renzi. After further murders, for some reason, Sam decides to 'go detective' in order to discover the killer's identity.
There are some pretty amusing characters to be found along the way, such as dangerously effeminate antique dealers, cat-eating artists and hitmen running around in hi-vis clothing (not very stealth, dude)!
What ensued was, in my opinion, a fairly run of the mill serial killer/slasher movie, with a highly improbable ending. It should have ended about ten minutes before it actually did. Its as if they got to the end, it made sense, but the cameras kept running so they had to keep making more end up, until it ended up making no sense whatsoever (if you see what i mean). All in all, watchable, but by no means outstanding.
Corporal Tench
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