INFORMATION
Original title: Tutti i colori del buio
Director: Sergio Martino
Release Year: 1972
Genre: Giallo
Source: Media Blasters/Shriek Show DVD
Language: Italian & English (Dual audio)
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Ripper: Daeron (aka Member13, originally posted to KG)
SYNOPSIS
Very minor spoilers on the second paragraph. All the Colors of the Dark (Tutti i Colori del
Buio) is probably the strangest film Sergio Martino ever directed. While not a giallo in the
most traditional sense, it seems logical to apply the genre's framework when discussing it,
given that it showcases many of the conventions associate with films of this type, and also
because it falls bang in the middle of Martino's giallo period, produced in the wake of The
Strange Vice of Signora Ward and Case Of The Scorpion's Tale, and preceding Your Vice Is a
Closed Room and Only I Have the Key and Torso. A brief glance at the film's credits reveals
a wealth of giallo regulars. Apart from director Martino, we have screenwriter Ernesto
Gastaldi, composer Bruno Nicolai, and a cast comprised of genre heavyweights, led by Edwige
Fenech and George Hilton, often regarded as the giallo's "Golden Couple".
Obviously drawing heavily on the influence of Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, Martino and
Gastaldi proceed to weave a web of horror, filled with disturbing imagery, supernatural
terror and lapses between dreams and reality. The story centres around Jane (Fenech), a
young Londoner who recently suffered a miscarriage after being involved in a car crash. Her
relationship with her boyfriend Richard (Hilton) has taken a turn for the worse, as she
suffers from twisted nightmares and behaves as if she is in another reality. Jane's sister
Barbara (Nieves Navarro) takes her to visit psychiatrist Dr. Burton (Georges Rigaud),
despite Richard's incredulity, but when the nightmares continue, and Jane is stalked by a
terrifying blue-eyed man (Ivan Rassimov) from her dreams, she turns to next-door neighbour
Mary (Marina Malfatti), who suggests that she accompany her to a Black Sabbath. Terrified by
the bloodletting ritual and mass orgy that takes place, Jane resolves never to return, but
the Satanists are determined that she won't get away so easily. (Michael Mackenzie @ DVD
Times)
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