Opera Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Genres: Horror, Thriller
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The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from director Dario_Argento. Christina_Marsillach (Tom_Hanks' romantic interest in Every_Time_We_Say_Goodbye) stars as Betty, a beautiful understudy who gets an unlikely break to play the female lead in a contemporary opera of Verdi's +Macbeth. Her fear of Macbeth's notorious curse proves to have foundation when a psychopath with a strange connection to Betty murders a stage hand in the midst of her debut and later kills several ravens being used in the opera. Characters introduced at this point who could be the killer include: the show's director, Marco (Ian_Charleson); Betty's publicist, Mira (Daria_Nicolodi); and the police inspector, Alan Santini (Urbano_Barberini). The middle third of the film is devoted to the killer's bloody work which serves to torment Betty. The madman binds her and tapes a row of tiny needles beneath her eyes so that she is forced to watch him butcher a young stage manager and a costume designer, among others. With the police investigation going nowhere and the killer zeroing in on Betty's death, Marco decides to enact his own plan to stop the madman; he releases the ravens (apparently, they always remember their enemies) during a performance. The birds circle wildly before attacking the killer and plucking one of his eyeballs out. He absconds with Betty, but dies in a fire after revealing his demented motivation and his connection to the young singer. A final scene set in the Swiss mountains provides a couple of final shocks. Patrick Legare, Rovi
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