I haven’t been scared during a film since the first time I saw Fire Walk with Me (before I was on Letterboxd, so maybe four or five years ago), but that scene where her friend climbs out the window and gets killed... ouchie. I think it got me.
I love every scene in this. It just didn’t quite come together for me, and I think that might be due to my hesitancy during the first 30 minutes. I knew what I was gettin into—I’ve seen Deep Red, but I think I was hoping that there would be a bit more of a thematic backbone than there was. It nearly made up for that with Suzy who I think makes for a compelling central character (much more than anybody in Deep Red). It just ends up feeling sort of like a formal exercise than a completed film, unlike a gothic horror like Coppola’s Dracula which ties in other genre-movie threads to make it a bit more interesting (i.e. the romance). Hopefully I can slough off this perception of it with a rewatch.
Watched this now so I can watch the remake next. I’m trying to catch up with a bunch of ‘10s movies before the decade ends.