Deep Red (Profondo rosso). Dario Argento, 1975.
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Edition screened: Blue Underground Blu-ray, released 2011. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime of Italian version approximately 126 minutes, runtime of English version approximately 125 minutes.
Summary: Real killing of a bird and a lizard.
Details:
1) A myna bird is impaled on a knitting needle and we see it on the floor gasping and bleeding, 1:01:25-1:01:37.
2) A lizard is skewered through the torso by a needle and we see it on the ground thrashing in pain, 1:19:41-1:19:46.
Deep Red is one of Argento’s strongest and tightest films, grossly diminished by these unnecessary and real animal murders. I am disgusted by the insecurity and overcompensation displayed by Argento, Bertolucci, e altri pisani who apparently feel like Real Men when they torture animals for the camera.
1972 Jungle Life in the coffee bar scene.