Rish Outfield's reviews
I'm a big Dario Argento fan. Well, maybe not a big one, but I've seen most of his movies (actively seeking them out as opposed to stumbling across them from time to time) and have enjoyed most of them. I've mentioned the two categories of Argento films: the symbolic, gory, compelling mysteries, and the symbolic, gory, confusing mysteries. This was another one of the nice, former ones. They're always colorful, always poetic, always haunting.
Both tyranist and I delighted in a scene where a little girl is chastised by her evil mother and responds with the best retort ever:
"Crawling around in that vent. You're covered with dust. It's disgusting!"
"You're the one that's disgusting--you're always naked!"
SLAP!
I enjoyed this movie. It was poetic and lovely and very gory, as usual for Argento. But this one didn't let its poetry overtake its prose and made clear and logical sense (until the end, that is).

The tyranist's thoughts
Just when I've lost faith in the ability of horror to be both visually pleasing and full of mystery, we watch a Dario Argento film. When his movies aren't so overly stylish that they are indecipherable, I find his gory mysteries to be quite intriguing and well worth my time spent watching them. This was such a movie with the only flaw appearing at the very end after the mystery has unraveled.
The lovely Cristina Marsillach plays a young opera singer who gets her first big break singing Lady Macbeth when a car accident removes the previous diva from the roster. But then things start to get worse and worse. She is tied up and forced to watch a masked killer mutilate several people. The ingenious bit is how the killer forces her to watch. He tapes needles under her eyes that are positioned to prick her eyelids should she attempt to close them.
I found this to be vastly entertaining and easy to watch in the tradition of Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Trauma. Truly a nice effort by Argento and crew. Lop off about three minutes on the end and the movie is very, very good. Definitely check it out if you get a chance, but try to look for the unrated version as there is some very good gore here.