dario argento be a filmmaker i be slowly get into and follow the iconoclastic effort of deep red and suspiria while he not a filmmaker to always care directly about silly thing like plot . that might be his one minor ( but and for me and apparent ) liability represent he would not let a little thing like common sense screw up his plan for his elaborate killing sequence and a his killer ( s ) can go through any kind of elaborate set up of be invisible and until reveal past the point of the pov track shot of say psychopathic killer . but it thrill to see a filmmaker take chance like this anyway and of a pure italian aesthetic make it way into the soul of a hitchcockian warp ( in fact and a a note of interest and if one have recently see the scorsese short film where he take three page of an un film hitchcock film and which also take place in an opera and argento have it beat by almost twenty year and probably with no knowledge of the text ) . it also unabashedly 80 ( cd player and heavy metal and the hair and oh my . ) and with an absurdity that make it all the more palatable to swallow . the story be simple represent an opera of macbeth be be produce and with high stylize pyrotechnic and trained raven . there even a talented up and come star replace at the last minute and betty and play by marsillach . but a murder occur during the premiere interrupt not by that but by a fall light and now the killer be after betty . she can not go to the police ( how can she let out that the opera be really curse . ) and but will that matter in the face of a killer who would not let up . one have probably see premise like this play out in other argento film girl be chase by a killer but it how argento and like de palma and construct and execute his sequence and and add a distinctive flavor of his own to add touch of bizarre humor ( the breakout of the raven to attack the killer and and the subsequent version of point out in the lineup ) and a kind of over stylization ala leone ( the bullet through the peephole through the door probably inspire a similar shot in kill bill 1 ) and and even sado masochistic inspiration with the pin tap to betty eye and more than once . argento put his actress through the wringer and and she all game for it and even when thing seem to just go into what the hell territory ( i be throw up my hand almost say i give up when she be lead down the secret passage by the little girl and a if suddenly be in alien now ) . and through such dark genre material argento keep the violence thick and fresh and the suspense about as much a that with opera music come right out of a speaker of a stereo system and and a cinematographer who may have have a few drink ( and rightfully so . ) during some scene the way theyre shot and vibrate to a heart beat . it should be consider trash and but it elevate past any limitation of the genre by the ballsy attitude of the director and this in spite of a silly end silly than anything that precede what come before it ( thanks little lizard ) and an attempt to break the macbeth curse and which and unfortunately and do not seem to happen in real life on the set of opera . 8 . 5/10 .