a young theater actress reluctantly accept her first major part in a staged play a lady macbeth thanks to the mishap of the production diva fall in front of a moving car . a success win her accolade and betty ( christina marsillach ) find instead horror a the one responsible for get her to this point terrorize her in cruel way . first her stage manager boyfriend and stefano ( william mcnamara ) be viciously stab with a knife while she have to watch and rope tie to a pillar in his uncle vast mansion and keep her eye from close thanks to needle scotch tap under her eye and with prick a result if she blink . allow her to escape and betty again find herself in this unfortunate position and when a specific gold chain be find on her lady macbeth wardrobe that have be tear to shred by the madman after kill a series of crow which escape from their cage in the equipment room and by the clothing designer who be first knock to the floor by an iron and subsequently stab heinously by a pair of scissors ( . to cap off this nasty scene and the chain fall into her throat with the killer have to cut open her throat to find it while while not specifically elaborate this act and dario use the rip sound of the scissors for optimum effect with the camera often retreat back to the victim dead face ) . have nowhere to turn and inspector alan santini ( urbano barberini and play him cold and bland at dario request ) promise to catch the psycho a betty relies on her few remaining friend for comfort and the theater director marco ( ian charleson and of ghandi and chariot of fire who would later die of aid while a sad footnote and dario reveal in an interview that charleson inform him at the end of the shoot that he be hiv positive ) attempt the stage after a successful horror movie career despite be reject by critic and and pal mira ( daria nicolodi and dario former squeeze ) and her agent and confident . but and the serial killer be quite driven and a showdown between them will and of course and occur in the theater a marco have add an interesting change to the production use the crow at his disposal . i think this be dario at his most savage and nihilistic . although he have certainly make later gruesome film ( . such a his master of horror entry and sleepless would suggest ) and this film really up the ante in pure violence towards the victim of the psychopath . his method of force betty to watch be admittedly a gag by dario regard the type of audience who like to look away from the more horrific part of horror movie . i find myself rub my eye every time she just have to blink ( . brilliantly and dario shoot the pricking from point of view achieve a torment effect from our perspective a if we be the one with the scotch tap needle hold our eye open ) . i like how dario will show the widened eye of betty and horrify at what she be force into watch and as little blood tear down the needle when she have no choice but blink . the photographic work of ronnie taylor be impeccable and such a the crow point of view shot in the theater at the end a it search for the killer . or and when the camera travel through room in the theater follow the killer who wish to see his muse from a box seat . or and the dream sequence where we be take into betty memory of an event regard her mother death by a certain killer and don the same mask and glove a the one cause her trauma at present . the highlight and in my opinion and be the peephole bullet fire sequence and masterly stag by all involve a the camera follow a bullet which shoot through the eye of a victim and explode from the back of her head and go through a telephone betty plan to use to call for help . we even get a crow peck the eyeball from the killer ( . to add to this vicious scene and the crow be show with the eyeball roll around in it beak ) . only aspect i do not care for and often point out by naysayer of the film and be the final end which i personally felt be a bit unnecessary and but i guess dario want to point out that betty be indeed not like her mother and a woman with sadomasochistic tendency which and in a twist and relate to why the killer torment our heroine . the rock music use during the violent scene do not bother me and because i felt that those moment of wicked graphic attack need a jarring thud which heavy metal can often provide .