Synopsis
One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.
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Cast
- David HemmingsMarcus Daly
- Daria NicolodiGianna Brezzi
- Gabriele LaviaCarlo
- Macha MérilHelga Ulmann
- Eros PagniSupt. Calcabrini
- Giuliana CalandraAmanda Righetti
- Piero MazzinghiBardi
- Glauco MauriProf. Giordani
- Clara CalamaiMarta
- Aldo BonamanoCarlo's Father
Recommendations
- 100
The A.V. Club
For all its nonsensical qualities, it also contains some of Argento's most hallucinatory images and unforgettable setpieces, as always reason enough to watch even when the usual reasons are nowhere to be found. - 100
Slant Magazine
Deep Red is a riveting thriller whose secrets carefully unravel via a series of carefully calibrated compositions that become not unlike virtual gateways into Freudian pasts. - 88
Slant Magazine
A great horror film about a weak man who, gazing into a vibrant pool of freshly spilled blood, learns just how little he ultimately knows. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
A Freudian honey trap of murder and women straight out of Italian Vogue. - 80
Empire
Undoubtedly the finest of Argento's thrilling horrors, this one takes the radical step, for the director at least, to concentrate on a plot that equals the shocking visuals of his other works. David Hemmings is well cast and is given a great script which genuinely frights. - 80
The New Yorker
Deep Red evinces the full extent of Argento’s seductive artistry. The film’s glamorous collection of psychics, dandies, and artists suggestively discuss murder as if they’re speaking of sex. And aren’t they, really? - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Argento here presents a stylish and compelling film that boasts remarkable visuals and an inventive use of sound effects and music.
