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<B>(Bugs/Psychic/Psycho/School)          4****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations* *Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1984/Color/82 Min./Media Home Entertainment, Inc.</B><B> & Intra Films World Sales & DACFilm-Rome/ Italy/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Dario Argento (Deep Red, Susperia, Trauma, Unsane)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Dario Argento & Franco Ferrini</B></div> <div> <B>Production Executive.....Angelo Jacono</B></div> <div> <B>Music Performed by Bill Wyman, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Simon Boswell, Andy Sex Gang, The Goblins, Claudio Simonetti, & Fabio Pignatelli</B></div> <div> <B>Costumes Designed by Giorgio Armani</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up Special Effects by Sergio Stilavetti</B></div> <div> <B>Entomology Consultant Fabio Dell'Uomo</B></div> <div> <B>Animals and Insects supplied by Maurizio Garrone</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Jennifer Corvino..Jennifer Connelly (The Rocketeer, Some Girls)</B></div> <div> <B>John McGregor.....Donald Pleasence (Alone in the Dark, Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B>(Not Available)   Daria Nicolodi</B></div> <div> <B>                  Dalila DiLazarro</B></div> <div> <B>                  Patrick Bauchau</B></div> <div> <B>                  Fiore Argento</B></div> <div> <B>                  Federica Mastroianni</B></div> <div> <B>                  Fiorenza Tessari</B></div> <div> <B>                  Mario Donatone</B></div> <div> <B>                  Francesca Ottaviani</B></div> <div> <B>                  Michele Soavi</B></div> <div> <B>                  Franco Trevisi</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The beginning is simply fascinatingly different. In an American made film, a fourteen year old would not be treated in this way. Unfortunately, we have to wait over an hour for the next excitement. Dream sequences to Goblin and friends rock slow down the action in classical Italian style. The introduction and subsequent dismissal of the sleepwalking dilemma left us baffled, a state to which we have become tolerantly comfortable to while watching Argento movies. Like motorcycles and electric guitars, chimps have never added anything to any horror movie. Watch for the raging inferno at the end that comes from the gasoline tank in her little outboard boat. After the first rate beginning, this film dissolves due to the inept direction and nonsequitors. As always with Argento, there are some striking scenes such as when Jennifer plunges into the pool of maggots and body parts, surrounded by question marks. However, "Master of Horror" Dario Argento seems to think more subplots and themes makes for more horror; it does not. Napolean had a point when he told Goethe in essence, either make a film about a psychotic serial killer or about a girl who has power over insects. Putting the two together simply makes for a confused and tedious mess--and lose the chimp. Donald Pleasance gives one of his few tired and extraneous performances, most likely, because he had developed a sixth sense for the potential of a horror movie plot. As always, the "Live Aid" collection of famous musicians stoops to musical masturbation as soon as given their freedom. Expect some cheap shock effects to close out this one. The 112 minute version is slightly better.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: At some point between Sept 7, and 10, a 14 year old Danish tourist misses her bus and tries to seek refuge at a nearby home where something escapes its chains and strangles, stabs and decapitates her, throwing her pieces into a lake. 6.5 months later, Dr. John McGregor uses maggots to establish the date of the death of another head the police have found. The newest guest in "Swiss Transylvania" is Jennifer Corvino who loves insects, and whose father is an heartthrob actor. She arrives at the Richard Wagner Nature Internat, an exclusive girl's school, where the girls gossip about the murdering maniac. Right away, her tendency to sleepwalk gets her in trouble, and she awakens just as she is sideswiped by a car in which two rare Swiss punks ride. She manages to leap out of the car to escape a bad situation with them. She is apparently a longtime sleepwalker. She wanders onto Dr. McGregor's property, where they get along famously. He tells her in the future to say to herself "I am sleepwalking, I must wake up." Jennifer is worried that the killer saw her while she was sleepwalking. Schoolmate Sophie sneaks out for a tryst with her boyfriend rather than watching Jennifer to be sure that she doesn't sleepwalk. This doesn't end well for her as Jennifer wakes too late to help Sophie and finds only a glove covered with maggots. She brings the glove to McGregor. Apparently the police didn't consider it to be important. When she tells McGregor that the insects drew her to it, McGregor says that paranormal powers are common in insects. The already suspicious girls at the school find a letter of Jennifers describing her communication with insects and soon she comes under ridicule. This soon stops, however, when the building becomes covered with insects pressing against the windows. After this she faints away. The headmistress notes that the devil is called "Beezelbub", the lord of the flies. When Jennifer awakes, her guard has nodded off and she sneaks out and goes to Dr. McGregor. The glove had larvae of dead body eaters. McGregor says the murderer is keeping the dead bodies somewhere, otherwise the insects wouldn't have attached to his glove. He suggests that they can find them through her sensitivity to the insects. Jennifer is let off a bus in the area they have calculated to be the most likely place to hold the bodies. We wondered why they would take such a chance, allowing her to go alone. She enters the house where the chains lie on the floor. There are a number of the "sarcophagus" flies are. She finds some dolls and maps and suddenly a man finds her but she gets away. Inspector Geiger, from the Canton police comes and asks the man some questions. He says he is a real estate agent for the house. McGregor receives an unwelcome visitor, is slain, and his chimp sets off to avenge his death. Jennifer is found at the airport by the headmistress who takes her to a house to stay rather than at the school where she refuses to go. The next plane won't leave until the next day. At the mental hospital, some doctors discuss an incident that happened in the high security area fifteen years before. Unfortunately, the headmistress' son is insane and lives in the house where she is to stay. When Jennifer finds the "sarcophagus" larvae there, she knows she is not out of the fire. Frau Wolfram gets a visit from the inspector who asks about a run in she had had with a dangerous insane person. We also find that she got there eight months ago. Soon Jennifer hears a scream and it looks as though she is left to battle for her life with only her absolute control of the earth's insect population.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>