Regie:
Pupi AvatiKamera:
Pasquale RachiniMusik:
Amedeo TommasiBesetzung:
Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina, Pietro Brambilla, Francesca Marciano, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Giovanni Brusadori, Giulio PizziraniInhalte(1)
Stefano, a young master restorer, is invited to a small town to bring a fresco located in a small church to light. It is the representation of the martyring of Saint Sebastian, the final work by Buono Legnani. (Sitges Film Festival)
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Pupi Avati directed a film that has a good atmosphere and can keep you tense the entire time. The House of the Laughing Window is a film that has a rather slow pace and weak progression, but it's not necessarily detrimental to the overall experience. The story is quite interesting and deserves your attention. Moreover, there are constantly strange things happening that might catch you off guard. The peculiar characters only add to the overall impression that you simply don't know where you stand. It’s more restrained but definitely not a bad giallo.
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Avati drehte nur selten Horrorfilme, aber wenn er sich für dieses Genre entschied, feierte er Erfolge, zumindest was die Fans betrifft. The House with Laughing Windows ist kein klassischer Giallo, in dem ein maskierter Mörder mit schwarzen Handschuhen wütet. Seine stärkste Seite ist die Atmosphäre des Dorfes mitten im Sumpf, dessen Bewohner Geheimnisse verbergen. Der Zuschauer spürt einfach, dass nicht alles in Ordnung ist. Die Spannung nagt zwischendurch an den Nägeln und immer mehr wird klar, dass das Böse hier eine unerwartete, ungreifbare Gestalt hat. Das Finale ist absolut ausgezeichnet, schade nur um den Mittelteil, in dem nichts passiert. Ansonsten erscheint mir der Titel sinnlos irreführend.
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If I add all the good bits: about three scary scenes, a decent script, the atmosphere of a remote Italian village, and a fairly effective (though quite predictable) twist, my rating still won’t go further than those strong three stars. The middle part of the film, at least, is simply boring. The House with Laughing Windows is slightly above par, for sure, but the odes as a wonder, if not the best Eurohorror film feel like something from an alternative world that never saw Phenomena, The House That Screamed or Who Can Kill a Child? 7/10
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