Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.
Well that was one unexpected twist. Though the slow pace made it almost not worth watching.
The effects were great but the story could've been shortened I feel but hey, this is a giallo movie after all.
This movie will be good for those really into this style of films. I do enjoy the movie though. Just won't be watching it again anytime soon.
Swimming Pool in Rome
A young composer (Andrea Occhipinti) gets the opportunity to score an Italian horror film and so stays at a nice villa to do his work, but its hindered by visiting females and strange goings-on, including murder by a utility knife.
Helmed by the son of Mario Bava, "A Blade in the Dark" (1983) is a traditional slasher more so than a giallo. It borrows from Psycho, Home for the Holidays and Halloween, not to mention a Brian De Palma movie that I cant mention. Swimming Pool was obviously inspired by its milieu twenty years later (even though its not a slasher). Speaking of the setting, the entire film was shot at the producers villa, except for one sequence filmed on a boulevard in Rome.
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