Director/Writer Dario Argento's 5th Film.
Demonstrates a Maturation of Style and Presentation that would, along with Mario Bava, Create the Template for the Slasher and Gore Movies.
That Others could Barely Approach.
An Audacious Use of Staging, Editing, and Violence (always containing "Deep Red" Gore).
Along with Pulse-Pounding Music (usually from the Heavy Sounds of the Group "Goblin"),
was So Strikingly and Shockingly Different that the Films, and Therefore the Creator Argento were Celebrated Universally as a "New Wave".
Having Virtually Invented the "Giallo" (Italian for Yellow that "adorned" the lurid sex and crime paperbacks in Europe) Genre.
Argento Didn't Stop There.
"Giallo" Category Tropes Included a Black-Leather Gloved Serial-Spree-Killer Yielding a Variety of "Killer" Weapons...
Knives, Hatchets, Scissors, Razors, etc.
The Killer's Identity was the Mystery, Usually Filmed Obliquely and Usually Clad in a Dark Rain-Coat.
Argento's First Film, "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (1970) Set the Stage.
On What was to Follow in the World of Italian, and then World-Wide Horror.
This Movie, and Mario Bava's "Bay of Blood" (1971) would be Mirrored ad Nauseum in the Slasher Craze.
But Very Few Reached the Pinnacle of Entertaining and Artistic Panache, or Approach the Outrageousness of Argento or Bava.
Many would See Argento's Auteur Accomplishments Reach its Zenith with His Next Film "Suspiria" (1977) as His Masterpiece.
Some Critics and Fans have Proclaimed "Deep Red" as a Better Movie.
But No Matter what Opinion You Have of the 2 Seminal Works, it is Assured that Once You See an Argento Film,
You are Unlikely to Forget it.
