About the film
- Directed by
- Dario Argento
- Released
- March 7, 1975
- US theatrical
- June 9, 1976
- Certification
- R
- Country
- Italy
- Starring
- David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni
More credits
- Language
- German, Italian
- Origin
- IT
- Studios
- Seda Spettacoli, Rizzoli Film
- Written by
- Bernardino Zapponi, Dario Argento
- Produced by
- Claudio Argento, Salvatore Argento
- Cinematography
- Luigi Kuveiller
- Music
- Claudio Simonetti, Giorgio Gaslini
- Also starring
- Giuliana Calandra, Piero Mazzinghi, Glauco Mauri, Clara Calamai, Aldo Bonamano
- Box office
- $2,900,000
A psychic is murdered through a window in full view of the street below, and the one witness who might remember the killer’s face cannot quite place what was wrong with the room he saw.
DEEP RED (1975), known in Italy as Profondo Rosso, was directed by Dario Argento from a script he wrote with Bernardino Zapponi. David Hemmings plays Marcus Daly, an English jazz pianist in Rome who sees the killing happen and rushes inside too late. Argento cast Hemmings deliberately: he had played the photographer in Antonioni’s Blow-Up, another man who sees something he cannot quite identify. Marcus teams up with a reporter, Gianna Brezzi, played by Daria Nicolodi, to track the murderer through Rome’s archives and abandoned houses.
Luigi Kuveiller’s cinematography turns ordinary rooms into traps full of things almost seen. Giorgio Gaslini was hired to compose the score, but Argento was dissatisfied and replaced him. After Pink Floyd turned the job down, Argento found Goblin, an Italian prog-rock band who rewrote most of the score, including the famous main theme. Some of Gaslini’s jazz cues remain in the finished film, but Goblin’s music drives the violence with a pulse closer to rock than orchestral horror. The soundtrack became the best-selling album of 1975 in Italy.
Clara Calamai, whose most famous role was in Visconti’s Ossessione, plays Marta in her final screen appearance. Macha Méril plays Helga Ulmann, the psychic whose death sets the plot in motion. Nicolodi would go on to co-write Suspiria with Argento. The film is considered one of the defining works of giallo, the template against which everything Argento made afterward would be measured.
Sources
- √ Claudio Simonetti: “I Goblin e Profondo Rosso, 50 anni di paura” - Per una decisione informata www.rockol.it
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