a young theater actress reluctantly accepts her first major part in a staged play as lady macbeth thanks to the mishap of the production diva falling in front of a moving car. a success winning her accolades and betty(christina marsillach)finds instead horror as the one responsible for getting her to this point terrorizes her in cruel ways. first her stage manager boyfriend and stefano(william mcnamara)is viciously stabbed with a knife while she has to watch and rope tied to a pillar in his uncle vast mansion and keeping her eyes from closing thanks to needles scotch taped under her eyes and with pricking a result if she blinks. allowing her to escape and betty again finds herself in this unfortunate position and when a specific gold chain is found on her lady macbeth wardrobe that had been torn to shreds by the madman after killing a series of crows which escaped from their cage in the equipment room and by the clothing designer who is first knocked to the floor by an iron and subsequently stabbed heinously by a pair of scissors(. to cap off this nasty scene and the chain falls into her throat with the killer having to cut open her throat to find it while while not specifically elaborating this act and dario uses the ripping sound of the scissors for optimum effect with the camera often retreating back to the victim dead face). having nowhere to turn and inspector alan santini(urbano barberini and playing him cold and bland at dario request)promises to catch the psycho as betty relies on her few remaining friends for comfort and the theater director marco(ian charleson and of ghandi and chariots of fire who would later die of aids while a sad footnote and dario revealed in an interview that charleson informed him at the end of the shoot that he was hiv positive)attempting the stage after a successful horror movie career despite being rejected by critics and and pal mira(daria nicolodi and dario former squeeze) and her agent and confident. but and the serial killer is quite driven and a showdown between them will and of course and occur in the theater as marco has added an interesting change to the production using the crows at his disposal. i think this is dario at his most savage and nihilistic. although he has certainly made later gruesome films(. such as his masters of horror entries and sleepless would suggest) and this film really ups the ante in pure violence towards the victims of the psychopath. his method of forcing betty to watch was admittedly a gag by dario regarding the type of audience who like to look away from the more horrific parts of horror movies. i found myself rubbing my eyes every time she just has to blink(. brilliantly and dario shoots the pricking from point of view achieving a tormenting effect from our perspective as if we were the ones with the scotch taped needles holding our eyes open). i like how dario will show the widened eyes of betty and horrified at what she being forced into watching and as little blood tears down the needles when she has no choice but blink. the photographic work of ronnie taylor is impeccable and such as the crow point of view shot in the theater at the end as it searches for the killer. or and when the camera travels through rooms in the theater following the killer who wishes to see his muse from a box seat. or and the dream sequence where we are taken into betty memory of an event regarding her mother death by a certain killer and donning the same mask and gloves as the one causing her trauma at present. the highlight and in my opinion and is the peephole bullet fire sequence and masterly staged by all involved as the camera follows a bullet which shoots through the eye of a victim and exploding from the back of her head and going through a telephone betty planned to use to call for help. we even get a crow pecking the eyeball from the killer(. to add to this vicious scene and the crow is shown with the eyeball rolling around in it beak). only aspect i do not care for and often pointed out by naysayers of the film and is the final ending which i personally felt was a bit unnecessary and but i guess dario wanted to point out that betty was indeed not like her mother and a woman with sadomasochistic tendencies which and in a twist and relate to why the killer torments our heroine. the rock music used during the violent scenes do not bother me and because i felt that those moments of wicked graphic attacks needed a jarring thud which heavy metal can often provide. 
a young theater actress reluctantly accepts her first major part in a staged play as lady macbeth thanks to the mishap of the production diva falling in front of a moving car. a success winning her accolades and betty(christina marsillach)finds instead horror as the one responsible for getting her to this point terrorizes her in cruel ways. first her stage manager boyfriend and stefano(william mcnamara)is viciously stabbed with a knife while she has to watch and rope tied to a pillar in his uncle vast mansion and keeping her eyes from closing thanks to needles scotch taped under her eyes and with pricking a result if she blinks. allowing her to escape and betty again finds herself in this unfortunate position and when a specific gold chain is found on her lady macbeth wardrobe that had been torn to shreds by the madman after killing a series of crows which escaped from their cage in the equipment room and by the clothing designer who is first knocked to the floor by an iron and subsequently stabbed heinously by a pair of scissors(. to cap off this nasty scene and the chain falls into her throat with the killer having to cut open her throat to find it while while not specifically elaborating this act and dario uses the ripping sound of the scissors for optimum effect with the camera often retreating back to the victim dead face). having nowhere to turn and inspector alan santini(urbano barberini and playing him cold and bland at dario request)promises to catch the psycho as betty relies on her few remaining friends for comfort and the theater director marco(ian charleson and of ghandi and chariots of fire who would later die of aids while a sad footnote and dario revealed in an interview that charleson informed him at the end of the shoot that he was hiv positive)attempting the stage after a successful horror movie career despite being rejected by critics and and pal mira(daria nicolodi and dario former squeeze) and her agent and confident. but and the serial killer is quite driven and a showdown between them will and of course and occur in the theater as marco has added an interesting change to the production using the crows at his disposal. i think this is dario at his most savage and nihilistic. although he has certainly made later gruesome films(. such as his masters of horror entries and sleepless would suggest) and this film really ups the ante in pure violence towards the victims of the psychopath. his method of forcing betty to watch was admittedly a gag by dario regarding the type of audience who like to look away from the more horrific parts of horror movies. i found myself rubbing my eyes every time she just has to blink(. brilliantly and dario shoots the pricking from point of view achieving a tormenting effect from our perspective as if we were the ones with the scotch taped needles holding our eyes open). i like how dario will show the widened eyes of betty and horrified at what she being forced into watching and as little blood tears down the needles when she has no choice but blink. the photographic work of ronnie taylor is impeccable and such as the crow point of view shot in the theater at the end as it searches for the killer. or and when the camera travels through rooms in the theater following the killer who wishes to see his muse from a box seat. or and the dream sequence where we are taken into betty memory of an event regarding her mother death by a certain killer and donning the same mask and gloves as the one causing her trauma at present. the highlight and in my opinion and is the peephole bullet fire sequence and masterly staged by all involved as the camera follows a bullet which shoots through the eye of a victim and exploding from the back of her head and going through a telephone betty planned to use to call for help. we even get a crow pecking the eyeball from the killer(. to add to this vicious scene and the crow is shown with the eyeball rolling around in it beak). only aspect i do not care for and often pointed out by naysayers of the film and is the final ending which i personally felt was a bit unnecessary and but i guess dario wanted to point out that betty was indeed not like her mother and a woman with sadomasochistic tendencies which and in a twist and relate to why the killer torments our heroine. the rock music used during the violent scenes do not bother me and because i felt that those moments of wicked graphic attacks needed a jarring thud which heavy metal can often provide. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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