Reviews of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a master-class in giallo film-making!
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Film 80 of "The December Project" 2012
98 minutesI heard about this a while back from the Where the Long Tail Ends podcast, and it was spoken of highly so I had the DVD sent from Netflix.
This movie was great, a very solid murder mystery film. I don't know if you can consider it a Giallo, but I will just because Dario Argento made it. Right from the get go the film didn't stop entertaining me, something I…
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I've not seen a film by the Italian horror icon Dario Argento before, so where better to start than with his directorial debut the masterfully clever and superbly chilling giallo The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
From the moment it begins Argento’s gripping narrative carries all the suspense of a Hitchcock feature, but the Italian director’s style is more original than referential. He seamlessly combines familiar horror techniques with his own unique blend of filmmaking – that includes sporadic jump…
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If someone wanted to start watching some Giallo films I think this is a pretty great place to start.
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Very fine debut that set the trend for giallo for the next half dozen years. The seeds of the genre had already been sown but here Argento strikes out stylishly and makes a massive mark. It was interesting watching this once more having now having seen so many more giallo since first seeing this and realising just what an influence it had been. There are elements, particularly visuals, that we will see developed in later Argento films as well as…
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A great horror thriller... Twisting whodunnit story mixed with some quite uncomfortable and brutal violence. Reminded me of the Hitchcock film Frenzy
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Excellent Giallo or even just Crime thriller from Dario Argento. Does it matter that I guessed the killer from very early on? Or that it is not as deep as some later Argento films. I don't think so. The story is actually very simple and there are some brilliant scenes. The characters in this film are unique and seem very genuine. As far as scares go, well, there's a sufficient amount of blood. I wasn't bored at all during the run time and as someone who watches a lot of films, I can't always say that. Enthralling.
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Argento's first movie is also one of his best. A great mystery film, you will be hooked until the final reveal
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I'm a bit weird. I've seen three Argento films before this one (Suspiria, Tenabrae and Deep Red) and liked all of them. And yet it's taken me years to get around to watching another one. I suspect about 6 years, maybe more, since I rented Deep Red. I went through a phase of watching giallo movies and my favourite of those is Tenabrae. You'd think this would have driven me into watching more Argento movies. I can't really explain it.…
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A visual and thematic blue-print for Dario Argento's entire oeuvre, although it lacks the stylistic and aural complexity of his baroque masterpieces (Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, Inferno). A stunning debut feature, which stands up to repeated re-viewings, even when you know who the killer is.