Il Rosso Segno della Follia (1970)
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Duration: 88 minuten
Alternative titles: Hatchet for the Honeymoon / Blood Brides
Country:
Italy / Spain
Directed by: Mario Bava
Stars: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander and Laura Betti
IMDb score:
6,3 (4.995)
Releasedate: 2 June 1970
Il Rosso Segno della Follia plot
"When you chop - Aim well! Don't slip! And just make sure - She doesn't drip!"
In his spare time, the owner of a beautiful luxury villa likes nothing more than to murder top models who have modeled for his fashion creations. However, after killing his own wife, he is constantly harassed by an annoying ghost.
Actors and actresses
John Harrington
Helen Wood
Mildred Harrington
Inspector Russell (as Jesus Puente)
Alice Norton
Louise
Vences (as Alan Collin)
Dr. Kalleway (as Gerard Tichy)
Betsy Wester (as Veronica Llimera)
John Harrington as a Boy (as Fortunato Pascuale)
Reviews & comments
Richard_Voorhees
-
- 2311 messages
- 2135 votes
Bava managed to turn this very Psycho-inspired film into a pretty nice visual spectacle. Especially because of the images of the man and the atmospheric, psychedelic soundtrack, this is still a pretty cool film. Forsyth doesn't really portray the character in a memorable way and the rest of the cast doesn't contain high flyers either. The ladies sometimes seem to be chosen more for their beauty rather than for their acting.
Anyway, this is an even more enjoyable Bava.
Translated from Dutch · View original
baspls
-
- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
Hatchet for the Honeymoon is a special Mario Bava film that is most reminiscent of American Psycho or the Hannibal TV series, but then with Edgar Allan Poe-esque supernatural elements. It's a Giallo-esque slasher, but with the killer as the protagonist. Bava clearly wanted to break with the cliché that the killer was revealed at the end (which, by the way, he invented himself and copied to the end).
The owner of a French fashion studio is in reality a mentally disturbed murderer who kills young women when they are about to get married. He does this to find out how his mother was murdered when he was still young. Starring Stephen Forsyth (a British Italo actor), Dagmar Lassander (the German actress who was nearly burned by Lucio Fulci) and Laura Betti (La Dolce Vita, Novecento) .
The footage was shot in the former home of Spanish dictator Franco, so police officers were present throughout production to make sure there was no blood on the floor. The shots seem like quotes from Hitchcock movies at times; the shot of the train in the beginning and the shot of John walking up the stairs with a saucer for example. Furthermore, there is less atmospheric use of color in the film than we are used to from Bava, but the shots were certainly stylistic. The music was a bit repetitive, but lovely typical Italian sounds.
All in all, a pretty strange movie. Fun to watch and in terms of plot certainly a major influence on films like Profondo Rosso by Dario Argento.
Translated from Dutch · View original
VanRippestein
-
- 1178 messages
- 1052 votes
In a Bava film I expect beautiful pictures, a dreamy atmosphere and a low tempo -but not boring- and a pleasant soundtrack. I could tick all that off with this film: 3.5 from me. The film differs in plot by emphasizing the psyche of main-metrosexual man John Harrington. I thought it was an interesting enough character to carry the film, but I can imagine that the lack of kills, or horror elements that you are used to from Bava, is a negative for some. But as I said: everything I want to see in a Bava film is in it and I can appreciate his original premise for the film.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Corporate & Media
Realtimes Network
Innovatieweg 20C
7007 CD, Doetinchem, Netherlands
+31(315)-764002
