{"id":15337,"date":"2022-11-25T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:36:27","slug":"four-flies-on-grey-velvet-1971-dario-argento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15337","title":{"rendered":"Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971, Dario Argento)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Death’s a commercial necessity.”<\/p>\n

This absurd murder conspiracy movie was the perfect follow-up to a Final Destination<\/em> sequel<\/a>. Logical movies are boring, illogical ones are stupid, but movies that follow their own dream logic, where a woman in a busy daylit park can suddenly, while lighting a cigarette, become all alone at twilight, then get chased through a hedge maze, ending up trapped between cobwebbed stone walls… what was I saying?<\/p>\n

Drummer and Wife:<\/em>
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Drummer Roberto is being tailed by guy in suit, follows the follower into a theater, but it’s a setup, where he’s photographed killing the suit guy. Paranoid, he tells his blonde wife everything, . Detectives get involved, a terrible gay private eye is hired, the drummer’s cat gets kidnapped, he visits a coffin convention with “God” Godfrey and a wacky Professor. In the middle of all this, a hot cousin stays over and wants to give him a massage in the bath. After the cousin’s incredible death scene, her retinas are scanned to find an image of the last thing she saw, which leads to the drummer’s wife. The drummer and his wife are good in this (some side characters are very dubbed) but the wife’s last-minute psychological backstory keeps reverting to Italian before she fatally flees from the house.<\/p>\n

God with his parrot Jerkoff:<\/em>
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Intense filmmaking, this worked better for me than Crystal Plumage<\/a><\/em> or Deep Red<\/a><\/em>. The lead guy was also in a Bea Arthur movie. His wife Mimsy Farmer has a great Italian horror career – Autopsy<\/em>, Fulci’s Black Cat<\/em>, The Perfume of the Lady in Black<\/em>, and something from the Cannibal Holocaust<\/em> guy. The cousin was in The Disappearance<\/em>, Stuart Cooper’s followup to Overlord<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Death’s a commercial necessity.” This absurd murder conspiracy movie was the perfect follow-up to a Final Destination sequel. Logical movies are boring, illogical ones are stupid, but movies that follow their own dream logic, where a woman in a busy daylit park can suddenly, while lighting a cigarette, become all alone at twilight, then get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,354,58,54,2755],"class_list":["post-15337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-conspiracy","tag-dario-argento","tag-horror","tag-parrots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15374,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions\/15374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}