What would we do without the internet? Ok maybe what would I do without it. With "Unsane" (the heavily edited version of "Tenebre) and "Suspiria" being the only Argento films I was able to see for many years I was always disappointed I couldn't find his other works. Especially this one as, I'd heard it to be his "masterpiece". Luckily now, I was able to see what everyone was talking about.

Deep Red is a visually stunning film as are all of his works. Arguably the best Argento film, shot in glorious widescreen with some incredible screen compositions . Very effective scares throughout featuring great murder scenes typical to the director. Dario Argento's rare visions and a creepy score by "Goblin" make for a truly chilling, moviegoer experience. I guess people condsider it to be Argento's masterpiece because the plot seems to come together with more fluidity than his other works. All and all it is a great work of art and a definate classic.

The only flaw that I saw, and luckily I rented this first, is not with the movie but with the DVD itself. Maybe it was my version but there were parts that switch back and forth from English dubbing to Italian with English subtitles. I hear that's the way Anchor Bay transferred onto the DVD. I read a review that said if you can stand subtitles to watch the whole movie in Italian as the voices dubbed over don't catch the mood of the actors. I will rent it again and do exactly that. Then, most likely, will add it to my collection. No Argento fan will be disappointed with this phenomenal giallo masterpiece.

This is a great gîallo horror film that clearly inspired many future films! The scene with the orange couch and knitting needles is even referenced in "HALLOWEEN!" This is clearly one of Argento's greatest works. However BE WARNED! This is not the full, uncut, uncensored version -as advertised. Still, it is a master work with a haunting score and scary story! Enjoy!

This is not a contradiction: While Susperia is in my opinion the best horror film ever made, making it the scariest movie Argento has ever made, I still think that Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) is Argento's masterpiece. Why? While Deep Red is not as scary as Susperia, it is a better movie. Deep Red wins my vote as the best giallo film of all time. Buy this film at once. It demands repeated viewings. In this giallo, a jazz pianist witnesses a murder from the street and, feeling heroic, rushes into the building in attempt to aid the woman in peril. He runs into an apartment decorated with an abundance of paintings, only to find that the women is already dead. What follows hinges mainly on what has become Argento's main plot device in giallo films, namely, a mystery created in the mind of the main character of the film as a result of the fallability of human memory. As one character in the film states, memory is like a cocktail, and sometimes the flavors of past events get mixed up, becoming indistinguishable from one another. The Bird with the Crystal Plummage, Susperia, and Sleepless, to name a few, all contained mysteries pertaining to inaccurate, imperfect, or even blatantly false recollections of events which have come to pass. In Deep Red the main character swears that a painting has been stolen from the apartment he rushed into. He vividly remembers seeing one that is no longer there. The police dismiss his claims, saying he's mistaken. But there his memory is, lingering, haunting him, compelling him to play detective, as he becomes obsessed with jogging his memory. The entire issue in this movie pertaining to what he actually saw in the apartment is handled by the director geniously, for you too also get to see what the main character does, and likely will also miss it. I will say no more on the matter; I do not want to spoil the effect. This film is repleat with Argento's signature touches, the mobile camera, the black-gloved killer, and a brilliant use of color. Critics have often come down on this film, failing to give it the respect it deserves. One reason, I would surmise, is that the film as a whole is a bit tarnished by the corny relationship between David and Argento's once wife, Daria. These brief scenes aside, many of the sequences of this film dazzle the viewer with their technical mastery. The scene when David Hemmings keeps playing the piano with one hand though he hears an intruder on the other side of the door is masterfully executed, as are David's excursions into the creepy house with a hidden room. The editing in the film is nothing short of brilliant, as when the protagonists enter the school toward the end of the film. The picture cuts to various scenes, including the image of a bathroom wall with the graffito 'kill your parents.' The soundtrack to this film is one of Goblin's best. For interested readers, this film is actually a remake of Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece Blow Up, which also starred David Hemmings. There Hemmings played a photographer who, after photographing scenes in a park, swears he captured a murder in one of his photos. Though most critics prefer Blow Up to Deep Red, I, like Argento, find Blow Up's surreal conclusion to be a tremendous let down, and personally find Deep Red to be the superior of the two films. (Blow Up was also remade by Brian DePalma as Blow Out.)

I love a good horror film - The Shining say, Cat People say. DEEP RED has outstanding photography, rich deep colour, superb editting, a terrrific sound track in short very high production values but lacks suspense and is devoid of fear. The comic book script and sometimes pedestrian dialogue are problems for the viewer. Sub text feminism fashionable in some seventies movies - in DEEP RED the luscious reporter beats the hero at arm wrestling and almost forceable drags him into the boudoir to savour what delights she imagines he has in that department - weigh the movie down. Too many longeurs. Worth seeing though.

Good movie, I don't know about it being a masterpiece. I enjoyed this movie. The only thing I didn't like is that there are too many clue as to who the killer is. It almost seems like the Argento is trying to tell tell you who the killer is. I figured it our half way, that was a big buzzkiller. The movie was otherwise intresting and keeps your attention. Just don't pay too much attention.