monofron

I really liked "La casa dalle finestre che ridono", excellent horror full of disturbing suggestions, but I prefer a bit "Tutti defunti tranne i morti". This film is a comic (and grotesque) version of "La casa dalle finestre che ridono", full of atmosphere and mystery but also exhilarating. Most of the funniness comes from the accents and the expressions of the characters, so if you're not Italian probably you won't enjoy it like me. It's a beautiful horror story (as good as the story of "La casa dalle finestre che ridono") with characters grotesque and surreal. At the beginning of the film one could be disappointed by all these strange people, but slowly the story becomes more intriguing and mysterious, and it becomes a wonderful mix of horror and funniness, mystery and irony..

It's not a surprise that Luigi Cozzi, after this movie, never shot a film again (except for two documentaries). This thing is not worth being called a movie (I've directed better films with my friends). The attempt of the director to give the film a photography reminiscent of the chromatic games of Suspiria is simply pathetic, and is nonetheless the better thing of the movie. However this film made me laugh so much with my friends that I should forgive its uselessness and its ugliness. We had a lot of fun. There are two sequences in Paganini Horror (one at the beginning, the other close to the ending) so silly and dumb that you can't do nothing but laugh.. unfortunately the rest of the movie can be quietly trashed away, its boringness is something unbelievable (especially during the music scenes). Maybe this film owes its only appeal to the bad acting of the actors, the principal cause of hilarity. But even the script is wonderful: the invisible barrier is surely the lowest (or highest) moment of the film...