Fatal Frames

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Audience Member I still can't decide if it was intentional to make a stereotypical Italian Giallo from the 80's or if they thought they were really making a good movie but either way I liked it. Fairly violent, lots of red herrings, bad dialogue and a nice twist make it feel like a lost film of Argento's or Fulci's. It also features the last appearance of Donald Pleasence who died during production and the makers do a great job of writing his character out of the film using a reference to that other famous movie he was in. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I still can't decide if it was intentional to make a stereotypical Italian Giallo from the 80's or if they thought they were really making a good movie but either way I liked it. Fairly violent, lots of red herrings, bad dialogue and a nice twist make it feel like a lost film of Argento's or Fulci's. It also features the last appearance of Donald Pleasence who died during production and the makers do a great job of writing his character out of the film using a reference to that other famous movie he was in. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Fatal Frames in an excellent exercise in how to take an original idea and turn it into shit. We see a child sneak into his poppa's snuff films and then years later, several women are butchered in NYC by a serial killer who chops them up with a machete and films them. Now for the actual plot; a hip director (Rick Gianasi a.k.a. Sgt. Kabukiman) is flown to Italy to direct a music video for singing sensation Stefania Stella (played by....um...Stefania Stella). As luck would have it, women start to get chopped up and filmed in Italy. Hmmm. For the pros, this film features some great genre actors popping up here and there, including Donald Pleasence (in his final role unfortunately as a detective flown in from America), Angus Scrimm (as a ghost-artist-prophet whatever), and Linnea Quigley (who at this point, still looked very hot, but doesn't show any titties). As luck would have it though, the very busty Stefania Stell DOES show her ginormous titties in a dry humping scene (at least I hope it was a dry humping scene because you cannot pass off a sex scene when both people are clearly wearing underwear). Now for the cons. This film is WAY too long. 125 minutes is just too much for an Italian giallo-wannabe slasher. Cutting out all of the "music video" shootings probably would have knocked out at least 20 minutes alone. The film offered a really unique story that was original and even managed to sport a decent twist (sorta) at the end, but seriously, the same could have been achieved at about 95 minutes total. Secondly, the Italian people in this are either terribly dubbed or are having a hell of a time trying to speak their English lines. It was excruciating. Other than that, so-so slasher. The gore was great, and Stella's brief big titties shot was nice, but there are better slasher films out there. Much better. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member The lead actress is awfull as most of the cast but the director really understood the rules of the Giallo and Fatal Frames end up being a surprising satisfying attempt of moden Giallo. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member when i saw it the first time i thought it was very good i saww it again in dvd 10 years after and i am sure it is not the same edit i saw the first time but it still is a good horror movie Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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