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Delitto in silenzio

Titolo originale: The Spiral Staircase
  • 1975
  • Approved
  • 1h 29min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,7/10
630
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Delitto in silenzio (1975)
B-HorrorChi lo saGialloHorror psicologicoMisteroOrroreThrillerThriller psicologico

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn a remake of the 1940s film, Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?In a remake of the 1940s film, Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?In a remake of the 1940s film, Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

  • Regia
    • Peter Collinson
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Chris Bryant
    • Allan Scott
    • Mel Dinelli
  • Star
    • Jacqueline Bisset
    • Christopher Plummer
    • John Phillip Law
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,7/10
    630
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Peter Collinson
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Chris Bryant
      • Allan Scott
      • Mel Dinelli
    • Star
      • Jacqueline Bisset
      • Christopher Plummer
      • John Phillip Law
    • 19Recensioni degli utenti
    • 13Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali14

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    Jacqueline Bisset
    Jacqueline Bisset
    • Helen
    Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer
    • Dr. Sherman
    John Phillip Law
    John Phillip Law
    • Steven
    • (as John Philip Law)
    Sam Wanamaker
    Sam Wanamaker
    • Lieut. Fields
    Mildred Dunnock
    Mildred Dunnock
    • Mrs. Sherman
    Gayle Hunnicutt
    Gayle Hunnicutt
    • Blanche
    Elaine Stritch
    Elaine Stritch
    • Nurse
    John Ronane
    John Ronane
    • Dr. Rawley
    Sheila Brennan
    • Mrs. Oates
    Ronald Radd
    Ronald Radd
    • Oates
    Heather Lowe
    • Blind Girl
    Christopher Malcolm
    Christopher Malcolm
    • Policeman
    Tina Simmons
    Tina Simmons
    • Visitor
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Harry Van Engel
    • Police Photographer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Peter Collinson
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Chris Bryant
      • Allan Scott
      • Mel Dinelli
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    Recensioni degli utenti19

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    5highwaytourist

    Mediocre remake plays like a TV movie

    In 1945, a suspenseful classic film called "The Spiral Staircase" chilled audiences with its story and atmosphere. Set in the beginning of the 20th. Century, it told the story of the beautiful and mute servant of a wealthy, elderly widow who's threatened by a serial killer of disabled women. Here, the story has been updated to the present, which meant that the filmmakers didn't have to spend money on costumes and sets to reflect the time it took place. The overall plot remains the same, but the flat direction and script causes it to be about as suspenseful as an episode of "Murder She Wrote." There are a few red herrings as we wonder whodunit, but it doesn't make us care. It's not really a bad movie. It features a cast of starts who were big back in the day, so the acting is satisfactory. The mansion where the story takes place is rather baroque and makes a pretty good setting. And the original story remains excellent. The problem isn't that the film itself is terrible, but that given the quality of the source material and the original film, it's a major disappointment.
    3barnabyrudge

    Banal blood-curdler which can't hold a candle to the 1945 original.

    The original The Spiral Staircase, made in 1945 in black and white by director Robert Siodmak, was one of the finest killer-on-the-loose-in-a-spooky-mansion films of all-time. This 1975 remake is a very poor attempt to update and remake the original. There is less tension this time around, as director Peter Collinson allows things to proceed at a sluggish pace. Even the performances are weaker, despite the fact that this film has a comparatively star-studded cast for its era.

    Helen Mallory (Jacqueline Bisset) has been unable to speak since she witnessed her husband and child being killed in a house fire. Her doctor, Dr Rawley (John Ronane), has tried for several years to help her recover her speech but without success. He is very concerned for Helen's safety, as a serial killer has recently been at work in the city and all the victims share one thing in common – they are all disabled in some way. Helen goes away to her uncle's nearby mansion, which also doubles as an institution for the handicapped. Here she finds herself in the company of her uncle Joe Sherman (Christopher Plummer), his secretary and lover Blanche (Gayle Hunnicut), angry brother Steven Sherman (John Philip Law), a strict nurse (Elaine Stritch), housekeepers Mr and Mrs Oates (Ronald Radd, Sheila Brennan) and the ill, old bed-bound Sherman mother (Mildred Dunnock). A ferocious thunderstorm plunges the house into a power-cut, and before long it becomes apparent that the serial killer who has been preying upon handicapped women is one of those trapped inside the mansion. It is now Helen who finds herself next on the killer's list, unless she can find a way to survive….

    This is such a reliable, some might say "archetypal", story that all it needed was some thoughtful lighting and a well-judged sense of pace in order to work. But sadly director Collinson has spent too much time setting up pointless and weird camera angles instead of concentrating on the basics of suspense. If he had gone for the afore-mentioned thoughtful lighting and the better-judged sense of pace, this would have emerged a half-decent remake. The actors seem indifferent towards the material and give performances way below their best. Bisset has the difficulty of contending with a wordless role and is nothing more than average in the part; Plummer looks rightfully bored as the professor; Law snaps and snarls ineffectually as his bad-tempered brother; Dunnock spends most of the film acting drugged as the poorly old mother of the clan. For a good hour or so, very little happens in the film and one invariably finds oneself staring vacantly at the screen, waiting with misplaced optimism for a flash of suspense. Not even the music by David Lindup manages to generate any excitement or atmosphere. When the killings finally begin and Helen goes on the run in the dark passages of the house, trying to escape from her murderous assailant, the sequence is done rather flatly with little in the way of true excitement. If you're planning on watching a version of The Spiral Staircase some time soon, the best advice I can give is that you stick with the vastly superior original!
    3preppy-3

    Pretty dull

    Remake of the 1946 classic. Helen Mallory (Jacqueline Bisset) has been rendered mute after seeing her husband and only child die in a fire. She is now staying at her uncle's mansion and getting treatment. However there is a killer on the loose who kills people who have disabilities. Is Helen next?

    Pointless redo. The original is a classic--what's the point or remaking it? I caught this on TV late at night back in the 1970s. I had seen the original and was interested in seeing how this stood up. Sadly it turned out to be pretty bad. Despite a great cast (Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law, Elaine Stritch) this is pretty slow-moving and dull. There's virtually no suspense or atmosphere and it looks like it was made on a very low budget which hurts. The cast tries their best but even their considerable talents can't liven this up. You can safely skip this one. See the original.

    I give it a 3 because the cast does try and Bisset looks stunning (as always).
    4mls4182

    Almost left me speechless

    One would think a film showcasing the beauty and talent of Jacqueline Bisset would at least rate a 7. Well this doesn't. Not even the fine supporting cast can save it. The film moves too slowly to build any suspense. In fact, it is quite dull. Curiously, the movie was filmed in England but they try hard to make it lookije the USA. WHY?

    To make things worse, the film stars that store mannequin, John Phillip Law. Ugh.

    The highlight is Elaine Stritch. She has the best lines and provides much needed comic relief. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of her.

    Even though this review is long enough, imdb is requiring 600 characters now. What are we supposed to do? Describe every scene?
    4Steve_Nyland

    Slow, Anemic, Uninvolving

    Kind of a disappointment here from the otherwise interesting Peter Collinson, who's 1974 sleaze-0-rama OPEN SEASON is one of the truly great overlooked cult movies from the 1970s. He even brings along the late John Phillip Law from that movie but chooses to lock him up in the basement during the majority of the film's big shebang sequence, giving him little more to do than pry open a door and take a shower. His role could have been played by anyone.

    The movie is a remake of a highly regarded Noir thriller of the same name that better judgment suggests one investigate instead -- I was in this for John Phillip Law, so my disappointment is more on seeing his usually bizarre talents go so wasted. The story revolves around a fetching young woman played by Jaqueline Bisset who goes mute in the face of danger owing to a boringly typical childhood drama. There's a family matriarch who sleeps with a .38 under her pillow, a duplicitous doctor played by Christopher Plummer who may be the key to a series of murders of likewise handicapped but fetching young women, a scruffy amoral police detective who couldn't be more ineffective if he was trying to be, and a bunch of unlikeable types sitting around waiting for a rich elderly to die off so they can claim their piece of the pie.

    In other words this is a Scooby-Doo type plot with a couple of murders thrown in to beef it up. The most effective element of the film is the sprawling, ornate mansion that the movie is mostly set within, which does become effectively creepy once the power goes out during an electrical storm with a killer prowling the grounds. Director Collinson composes some interesting shots looking out from under the furniture that sort of reminds one of hiding under stuff as a kid when frightened. There is an intriguing use of color and some imaginative camera angles, but those elements aren't what we watch stuff like this for.

    As a made for TV movie (CBS) from the 1970s it's not bad, with a first rate cast, some interesting supporting players, a decent disappearing corpse sequence and a respectably staged lightning storm, but what of it? The movie apparently enjoyed a theatrical release overseas, mostly due to the strength of the names in the cast, and is a comparatively rare film not having found a re-release on DVD just yet, and probably never will. The problem is coming up with elements to recommend it for and other than another obscure, nutty, somewhat sinister John Phillip Law supporting role I can't come up with much. Jaqueline Bisset looks marvelous as usual and the unseen hero saving the day at the end was a pleasant surprise. As a whole however it's just not a very involving or absorbing story, well staged for the budget involved, but then again so is your basic trip to the bus station on YouTube.

    So here's another "I don't know ..." kind of movie. If low budget made for TV horror is your bag this should definitely find it's way onto your schedule at some point and used VHS copies are relatively inexpensive & not difficult to acquire (just search for the title on Amazon: it's there in spite of what the IMDb's link box says). With a bag of popcorn on a rainy otherwise boring night it would probably come in handy, and for John Phillip Law devotees you should probably grab a copy now before they all fall to pieces.

    4/10

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      Third of four versions of "The Spiral Staircase." The first was La scala a chiocciola (1946), the second was The Spiral Staircase (1961), made for television, and the fourth was La scala a chiocciola (2000), also for television.
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    • Citazioni

      Blanche: Do you know that we have four hundred and eighty-five applications for next year's course already?

      Dr. Sherman: You know, I swear if I propose to you, you'd file it under "applications".

      Blanche: [pulling a book from the shelf and clearing her throat before she starts to read aloud] On page eighteen, chapter three, rule four: "Many a good secretary has married her boss. No good boss has ever married his secretary." Quote, unquote.

      Dr. Sherman: [pointing to the now closed book in her hands] I wrote that before you came in.

      Blanche: Why don't we go have a drink to that.

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      Remade as La scala a chiocciola (2000)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 31 gennaio 1975 (Regno Unito)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Latino
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Bracknell, Berkshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(location)
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      • Raven Films (I)
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