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     Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Has anyone seen this film? It doesn't seem to be available on DVD.  Here's the synopsis and trailer: In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZvPIII5jW8&feature=fvw} | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.168.160.85 |
'Imago Mortis' has the ring of 'Null Immortalis'. Sorry for that interpolation! No I've not seen that film but thanks for the info. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
That's an Italian movie. Girolamo Fumagalli is a fiction character and "thanatography" is an old hypothesis which was never implemented. I did not see the movie, in spite of the stimulating basic idea, because of negative reviews, but one never knows with critics...they said it was tryng to look Spanish. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.156.106 |
It is indeed an Italian movie, and I have an English subtitled version at home somewhere... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.156.106 |
Or is it Spanish? Can't recall at the moment. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
It's an Italian movie, one Stefano Bessoni directing. It's sad how now Italian horror cinema is in imitation of other countries' movies, whereas in golden times (with Mario Bava, for instance), Italians were on top of the genre, whether horror or giallo (Argento's decline as witness to this.) They can't do them any more! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Yes, so sad. The eagerly awaited (at least by this Argento fan) DVD release of Giallo seems to have been delayed by no distributor being impressed enough to want it. Polish versions are available (with forced Polish subtitles) but that's not very promising.  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
they said it was tryng to look Spanish An Italian horror movie attempting to resemble a Spanish one? Oh yes!! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Sounds reminiscent of the Hazel Heald story (ghostwritten by H.P. Lovecraft) 'Out of the Eons'. In which a researcher goes to an ancient library for some eons and is told they're no longer in stock. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.156.106 |
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| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.107 |
Speaking of Argento, this is part of the plotline of Four Flies On Gray Velvet. Giallo never got released?... Dammit. I was so looking forward to that one too.... |