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  • Actors: Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Ian Charleson, Daria Nicolodi, Antonella Vitale
  • Directors: Dario Argento
  • Producers: Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English, Italian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Mar. 2010
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002XT38AK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 36,626 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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The final note is a real killer!

Get ready for a symphony of terror! Dario Argento (Suspiria) directs this blood-drenched giallo thatll leave you as helpless as its killers victims!

Betty, the gorgeous understudy of an opera soprano, inadvertently finds herself centre stage when a random accident leaves the shows star incapacitated. She soon finds that her newfound stardom comes at a price when a masked assailant starts killing her friends and colleagues, forcing her to look on helplessly...

Terror at the Opera is an astonishing film that questions our own involvement as passive viewers and features some of the greatest set-pieces Argento has ever devised.

Extras:

  • Dario Argentos Filmography and Biography
  • Photo Gallery

Review

A true masterpiece of Italian horror --HorrorView.com

The Visconti of Violence goes straight for the throat (and eyes) in this stylishly sick thriller --Time Out

Adrenaline-inducing cocktail of graphic violence and highly-stylised camerawork --Film4.com

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By A Customer on 12 Dec. 2003
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One of Argento's most dizzying works but also one of his most enjoyable. This being Argento's ninth giallo, he knew all the conventions inside out, so he plays with them mercilessly, using flashbacks, jump cuts, juxtapositions in a captivating way. The opening when the temperamental diva walks of the opera, is typical of the high style of the piece. The ending is, admittedly, a bit of a disappointment, but it's sweetened somewhat by the sly reference to Phenomena. Brutal, beautiful and daring, this is Argento at his best.
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if you are a fan of horror but get frustrated by the genres cliches and the lack of critical respect, argento is the dude to wheel out in its defence.

a huge fan of hitchcock and polanski (to whom this film owes a huge dent in particular) argento brings style, technique and unbelieavle suspense to the genre.

based on the story of the phantom of the opera but set in the modern day (well, 80's Italy at least), it follows a series of murders and the stalking of an opera diva

as with all argentos work, this is not about plot, but a series of awesome set piece murders, and this film contains his best. let me try to explain.....

the diva lives in an appartment, and argento goes to great lengths to get you familiar with the layout and where things are. this leads to a sense of being realxed and safe; you know where the phone is and how the security peephole on the front door works to which various people come and go

when the killer finally calls(spolier warning) he spooks the chick inside for a bit before finally ringing the doorbell again (just as the phone starts to ring). as she looks through the peephole shes looking down the barrel of a gun; cut to the outside of the flat where you see a sideshot of the gun; cut back inside to a sideshot of the head as the gun is fired; cut to the very far end of the corridor with the phone in front as the blood soaked bullet hits it and finally stops the damn thing rining - a phenomenal sequence
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Dario Argento movies aren't noted for their plausibility or realism, and this entry is no exception. Critics and fans have complained endlessly about Argento's earlier work (Suspiria and Deep Red) being classic examples of the horror genre, whilst his latter efforts (Trauma, The Card Player and Phantom of the Opera) sadly lacking in any department. This 1987 production has the unfortunate position of being sandwiched in between the 'old' Dario and the 'new'. The story has a young opera singer taking over the leading role in a 1980s 'style over content' rendition of MACBETH. Unknown to her, she has attracted the attention of a crazed fan who first kidnaps her, then forces her to stand and watch as he butchers and murders her friends, lover, etc. in front of her very eyes (in a clever trick - the killer cellotapes needles under her eyelids to keep her watching the graphic carnage). The film goes on like this for about an hour, (a) the killer shows up (b) he kidnaps the singer and (c) a murder scene (accompanied by a terrible heavy rock soundtrack which destroys any tension the film had built up). Argento uses Point of View camerawork, which at first is diverting, but at around the 20 minute mark you become lost and wish he would have held back on this device.

Argento's 'inventive murder' sequences which have trademarked the directors work are evident in OPERA. The show-stopper has to be the bullet through the key hole scene, which is truly stunning. Infact, all of the film is technically excellent and inventive, it's just a shame the screenplay isn't very involving and the UK 'Cockney style' dubbing never helps the viewer connect to the characters in the movie.
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Opera (also known as Terror At The Opera) was a notoriously difficult shoot for Argento, with a number of personal tragedies and professional setbacks befalling the film before it had even reached the production stage. It would also be something of a monument in his career; a return to form in the sense of it being the follow up to his much-criticised supernatural horror/thriller Phenomena, and his return to the giallo-style of filmmaking that he had earlier perfected with masterworks like Deep Red and Tenebrae. It was the third Argento film that I saw after later films, The Stendhal Syndrome and Trauma, neither of which left too much of an impression on me. Opera, on the other hand, was much more impressive, as it is the film of his later career that seems more indebted to the style and freedom of his earlier, more-groundbreaking works.
Though I've yet to see Sleepless and The Card Player, Opera remains, perhaps, the last truly definitive Argento thriller... with the usual giallo trademarks employed to a dizzying effect in a number of vicious, though no less elaborate, dramatic set-pieces. Admittedly, like much of Argento's work, Opera can occasionally seem like something of a throwaway... a lurid thriller, populated by lightweight, clichéd characters, over-the-top performances, and too much style-over-substance. However, one scratch beneath the surface reveals something deeper, with Argento once again playing with the self-reflexive notion of films about filmmaking; the idea of seeing and the audience's relationship to the perspective of his characters.
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