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Brad Dourif (Actor), Christopher Rydell (Actor), Dario Argento (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Brad Dourif, Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Laura Johnson, James Russo
  • Directors: Dario Argento
  • Producers: Dario Argento
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 25 July 2005
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006M4SGY
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Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's tale begins at a grim séance which ends in blind panic as a voice, possessed by evil, proclaims there is a murderer present. Terrified, a young girl (Asia Argento) watches as her parents flee from the scene. The next time she sees them they are dead - their headless corpses identifying them as the latest victims of a serial killer. Convinced she will be the next victim, the girl pleads with a friend to help her unmask the murderer.

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Trauma was director Dario Argento's big crossover attempt at combining the Italian giallo genre with the American stalk 'n' slash. His fans may debate whether the result was a complete success, but the film certainly put his name in front of a wider international audience. Essentially the story is a psycho-murderer-mystery, with the audience made to piece together clues towards the identity-revealing denouement. The movie comes alive as a result of suitably intense performances, even while the characters die.

Piper Laurie and Brad Dourif supply atypically explosive cameos. The leads are contrastingly subdued for the most part, no doubt because of their characters' involvement with drugs. Asia Argento (the director's daughter) is an anorexic who witnesses her parents' decapitations among a series of similar murders by the notorious "Headhunter". Christopher Rydell plays the ex-junkie who takes her in and helps track down the killer. Backing them up are some even greater performances from Tom Savini's eye-boggling special FX. With the aid of a motorised garrotte, the beheadings are gruesomely real, especially the one that leaves a head still able to talk.

On the DVD: Trauma comes to disc in full 2.35:1 widescreen, though this isn't the clearest of transfers (plenty of artefacts present). The sound is in an unspecified Dolby mix. An interesting selection of extras almost makes up for the lack of a commentary. There are filmographies of Dario and Asia, a gallery of behind-the-scenes stills, and trailers for the movie Phantom of the Opera and several more in this series of releases. More interesting are the text features: interviews with Asia on her memories of the shoot and with renegade horror director Richard Stanley surreally recalling his long-term fandom of everything Argento. Most fascinating, there's a mini-essay on what was cut and why by the BBFC for the original UK video release. --Paul Tonks --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 starsMaligned shocker is ripe for rediscovery
By Libretio VINE VOICE on 3 Oct. 2002
Format: DVD
TRAUMA

(USA/Italy - 1993)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Technovision)
Theatrical soundtrack: Dolby Stereo

Though often cited as one of the films which signalled a creative downturn in the career of director Dario Argento, TRAUMA is actually a much better entry than its reputation might suggest. Asia Argento (the director's daughter) plays a distraught anorexic whose life is turned upside down when she witnesses the decapitation-murder of her psychic mother (Piper Laurie) at the hands of a vicious serial killer. As in so many previous Argento movies, Asia resolves to uncover the killer's identity, aided by a sensitive TV newsroom artist (Christopher Rydell, son of actor-director Mark Rydell) who's taken pity on her circumstances, prompting a number of other murders and culminating in a Grand Guignol climax, one of the finest sustained set-pieces in Argento's long career.

Despite the fact that TRAUMA is an American film, the style is distinctly Italian in tone and execution: The ultra-wide scope framing, constantly inventive camerawork (including a bizarre shot from the point-of-view of a butterfly!!), ornate narrative structure and eccentric characterisations have more in common with the excesses of European cinema than the formal elegance of most Stateside productions. It's no wonder that some of the supporting American players seem a little disconcerted by the scriptwork and the director's unconventional filmmaking technique (including Frederic Forrest [FALLING DOWN] as a doctor sporting an unexplained neck-brace, and James Russo [DANGEROUS GAME] as a typically hard-boiled cop, always one step behind the film's youthful protagonists).

But the script - co-written by Argento and celebrated fantasy author T.E.D.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsFor Argento completists
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 15 Dec. 2007
Format: DVD
Dario Argento's first US feature, Trauma, is a film I'd like to like more, partially because it's obviously so personal for Argento but largely because it's depressing to see how ineffectual most of his later films are. In many ways this feels like the work of an overambitious newbie rather than an experienced director: shots seem clumsily timed, performance styles are all over the place and the script is an undisciplined mess of good and bad ideas. Partially inspired by his stepdaughter's anorexia (she can be seen dancing in the film's end credits) to shock her out of it - an intention that would seem to be somewhat undone by Asia Argento taking dieting tips from her to play the troubled anorexic lead - much of it feels like an awkward reworking of past hits. Like Profondo Rosso/Deep Red the plot is triggered by a séance where a medium identifies a killer among those present, and the film features such Argento favorites as ill-fated lizards, elevator-assisted decapitations and a twist that hinges on a misinterpretation of what you think you see (although in this case the key shot is so badly photographed you literally CAN'T see it).

There are a few very subtle references to Les Miserables and the French Revolution (most pleasingly in a shot of Piper Laurie in front of a window with the curtain drawn aside to look like a guillotine blade) thrown in along with other half-developed ideas, but even the seemingly foolproof sequences are executed in a haphazard and workmanlike fashion, although there is one nicely inspired moment of improvisation when a killer who only strikes during rainstorms has to despatch a victim in a hotel room on a clear day.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsNot Argento's best, but still a good thriller!
By Neil B on 5 Nov. 2009
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I am a long time fan of the work of Dario Argento. The undisputed king of Italian Horror/Thrillers has had a long and successful career since the 1970's. Fans will recall some of his earlier classics such as SUSPIRIA, INFERNO, FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET & PROFONDO ROSSO. Argento has his own unique style of film making that sets he apart from his peers.
TRAUMA was released back in 1993 to somewhat mixed reviews. This was Argento's first "mainstream" attempt to crack the US market, and this can be seen in the choice of casting and overall style of the film. We get solid performances from seasoned actors such as Frederick Forrest & Piper Laurie. Asia Argento turns in a very convincing role as the disturbed and anorexic Aura. As with most Argento films, the plot is rather sketchy at times, but we do get some amazing "Argento" set pieces such as the fabulous rainstorm attack and the stalking and killing of a nurse in a motel room. In this film, Argento gives us one of his darkest and innovative killer's to date. The murder sequences are handled very well, although the sfx by Tom Savini are mediocre, to say the least. Pino Donnagio provides the music, which sounds very dated and somewhat intrusive. This film would have worked better with a more modern sounding electronic score, similar to those by Goblin and Claudio Simonneti.
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3.0 out of 5 starsHeads You Win!
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 12 Nov. 2014
Format: DVD
Dario Argento's 1993 Giallo is a mixed bag, it's a film on his CV that his fans readily accept shows the best and worst of the goremeister's bent.

Asia Argento plays a troubled young woman with a eating disorder who runs away from a psychiatric hospital. Teaming up with a hero in waiting, she is drawn into the hunt for a serial killer known as "The Headhunter", a hooded killer who has a penchant for decapitation.

Backed by American dollars for the first time, Dario Argento is in a mischievous mood here. Pumped by Pino Donaggio's chipper musical compositions, Trauma struggles to get the audience to take it seriously as a horror film. Conversely, it's still a bunch of fun, intentionally or otherwise, with the director blending gore and suspense with his playful peccadilloes.

The murder scenes are handled with the customary Argento skill, where we even get introduced to what can only be described as Garrote-O-Vision! His camera work quite often borders on the brilliant, but elsewhere the acting is poor across the board and the uneven tone destabilises the pic as a "horror" film of substance.

Roll the dice and take your chance here really. It's fun not scary, bloody yet playful, classy yet amateurish, gotta love those red berries though. 6.5/10
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1.0 out of 5 starsArgento's worst

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Published on 28 Feb. 2011 by Adam Sorg
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