Check out those movie posters! It looks like a unicorn ate Rainbow Brite and then threw up all over a movie poster! I remember seeing these explosions of color a few times over the years, and wanting to check out the movie they came from. You have to hand it to Italian horror filmmakers. They're anything but subtle, and they sure know how to attract attention. This is another giallo, an Italian slasher movie, and I'm finally getting to watch it today, after many years. Let's see what all the psychedelic fuss is about.
This movie is about a woman named Jane whose dreams are being haunted by weird psychosexual dreams. She's tormented, not getting much sleep, and she keeps seeing a strange man who appears to be stalking her. Her husband's answer is for her to take drugs (he's a pharmaceutical rep) but the drugs just make her loopy and don't seem to help. Her sister then encourages her to join a satanic group for "protection," and to learn to control her dreams, and she becomes so desperate that she's willing to try it, but rather than helping, the cult seems to make her worst nightmares come to life.
This movie is a trip, and a really bad one at that. Jane's dreams are really fucked up, and they are full of weird, swirling imagery and strange music that made me feel like they were one of my worst migraines come to life. I also have to question the people Jane surrounds herself with. Her husband keeps yelling at her to calm down and snap out of it (don't you think she's tried that already, genius?) And her sister gives really dubious advice too. Who advises someone to join a satanic cult? Oh yeah, that will help everything .
All giallo movies, or at least most I've seen, have at least one weird psychedelic dream sequence. Those Italians must have some good drugs. But this movie is like if someone took all those crazy dream sequences and stitched them together and threw out the rest of the plot. It's cool in a nightmarish way, but it made my head hurt. I felt bad for Jane, but she makes such stupid decisions that I was kinda pissed at her too. Dude, throw out the whole entire husband, get some new friends, and try again. Even her psychiatrist s a douche. He just keeps telling her she needs to calm down and everything is fine, even after she hallucinates that she killed someone and wakes up with blood all over her hands. How exactly did she imagine that, doctor dipshit?
Once she goes to stay at this creepy, secluded boarding house, things get even weirder. Her doctor is convinced she will be safe there (oh yeah, staying at Motel Hell way out in the boonies will really be a big help). And I still don't really trust her dumbass husband, but I guess he's the best of the bad options she has. I feel bad that she's always looking for other people to lean on, and they take that power they have over her and use it to hurt her. She'd probably be better leaning on herself, even if she is going crazy. The movie tries to get over-explainy at the end and it's annoying, because it's such a jarring break from the surrealism in the rest of the movie that I could have done without it. This movie is a headache, but it was an interesting experience, so I'm still glad I watched it.
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