{"id":15942,"date":"2023-10-19T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:19:16","slug":"all-the-colors-of-the-dark-1972-sergio-martino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15942","title":{"rendered":"All the Colors of the Dark (1972, Sergio Martino)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Shocktober you&#8217;ve gotta watch one of those illogical Italian movies with crazy use of zooms and focus and repetitive editing.  Londoner &#8220;Jane&#8221; (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15338\">Five Dolls<\/a><\/em> star Edwige Fenech) sees murder everywhere since her miscarriage, husband &#8220;Richard&#8221; (her costar from Martino&#8217;s <em>Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh<\/em>) wants her to take her blue pills and make sweet love to him and not go to therapy.  But Jane is being stalked by the blue-eyed man from her murder dreams.  After he tries to kill her with an axe, neighbor May takes Jane to a group she says can help: a rapey clown cult of pale-faced people watching a guy with Freddy fingernails do animal sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/allcolors1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve crossed the limits of reality.&#8221;  Everyone starts dying &#8211; Richard pitchforks Blue Eyes (Ivan Rassimov of <em>Schock<\/em>) then shoots his wife&#8217;s sister Barbara for trying to seduce him, the cult kills Richard, etc.  Even the tidy explanatory ending doesn&#8217;t make sense, which is perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Shocktober you&#8217;ve gotta watch one of those illogical Italian movies with crazy use of zooms and focus and repetitive editing. Londoner &#8220;Jane&#8221; (Five Dolls star Edwige Fenech) sees murder everywhere since her miscarriage, husband &#8220;Richard&#8221; (her costar from Martino&#8217;s Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh) wants her to take her blue pills and make sweet [&hellip;]<\/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":[400,543,54,225,3167,2792],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-cult","tag-horror","tag-italy","tag-sergio-martino","tag-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","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=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15970,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}