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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013131421590
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 75461
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Editorial Review:
Description:
Italian Master Of Horror Dario Argento – the director of SUSPIRIA, DEEP RED, TENEBRE and OPERA — returns to the thriller genre with this sly and sexy tribute to The Master Of Suspense. Elio Germano stars as Giulio, a nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur who begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder. But when reel obsession leads to real danger, one question alone holds the key to terror: DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? Elisabetta Rocchetti, Chiara Conti and Cristina Brondo co-star in this bold giallo co-written by Argento and Franco Ferrini (PHENOMENA, THE CARD PLAYER), featuring a masterful score by Pino Donaggio (DRESSED TO KILL, CARRIE, TRAUMA), gore effects by Sergio Stivaletti (CEMETERY MAN, DEMONS), and filled with the classic touches of two true masters!
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Shot in Turin, the center of silent-era Italian cinema, Dario Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock? is half a tribute to German Expressionist horror, namely The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, and The Golem, and half an homage to Argento's hero, Alfred Hitchcock. As the first feature in the Masters of Horror series made for Italian channel RAI, however, the film suffers from a made-for-TV stiffness, despite DP Federico Fasano's (Scarlet Diva) Hitchcock-ian shots, beautiful use of red and blue lighting, and Pino Donaggio's suspenseful score. Do You Like Hitchcock's? plot references several Hitchcock films, most directly Rear Window. Film student Giulio (Elio Germano) notices two girls, Federica (Chiara Conti) and Sasha (Elisabetha Rocchetti), haggling over a Hitchcock video in his local video store, then spies on them after learning that Sasha lives in the apartment across from his. Upon witnessing, through binoculars, the murder of Sasha's mother and dedicating himself to the case, Giulio’s snooping endangers his life, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend Arianna (Cristina Brondo). Giallo often lacks original story, but Dario Argento has famously elevated his films' erotica and stylized violence by creating characters crippled by Freudian neuroses. Relatively speaking, Giulio, the film student with a runaway imagination, isn't as compelling as Argento’s typically complex femme fatales. Do You Like Hitchcock? includes a female criminal, to make it more classically Argento-esque. But if anything, the film begs an interesting question: mustn't the victim's sex appeal in good Giallo also be fetishized? --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Argento Pulls A DePalma
Folks may gripe about Argento's output over the last decade or so, but he certainly hasn't lost the knack for a good concept. I don't expect another Deep Red or Tenebre, and why should I? With a ton of great movies under your belt over more than 30 years, not everything is gonna be primo.
Do You Like Hitchcock? is a little murder mystery Argento made for Italian television. No, it's not the most original of concepts because the whole theme is based on another director's ideas. But at the ... Read More
Rating:  - Bad acting, bad filming, bad ending, boring movie
This film had some interesting moments but was basically destroyed by its terrible shot-on-video look, its stupid and confusing double-ending, and some really poor direction (ex: when the protagonist breaks his leg and repeatedly falls off his moped in the rain, the strong healthy man chasing him blatantly slows his running down to an impossible level of sluggishness to avoid catching him). It wasn't quite as out-and-out atrocious as Argento's "Phantom of the Opera," but doesn't hold a candle to his ... Read More
Rating:  - Do You Like Peeping Toms?
Director Dario Argento grew up reading Edgar Allan Poe stories and watching Alfred Hitchcock movies. He is often referred to as the "Italian Hitchcock." It only seems appropriate that he would make a movie in homage to his idol. Half the fun of watching this movie is finding the scenes that are reminiscent to such movies as "Strangers on a Train," "Dial M for Murder," and "Psycho." In the film, the walls of a video store are plastered with Hitchcock movie posters.
Perhaps Argento, ... Read More
Rating: - Argento's best work in years
Surprisingly, Argento's Italian TV movie Do You Like Hitchcock? is a welcome return to form despite one of the worst DVD covers of all time and a pretty blah pretitle sequence that has no relevance to the film beyond padding out the running time and establishing the hero's voyeurism. Splicing Rear Window and Strangers On a Train, originality isn't on the menu (unless you count the killer wearing white gloves instead of the usual black ones that feature in Argento's previous films: who says he's afraid to try ... Read More
Rating: - One horror master pays homage to another.
There is no denying that Dario Argento was at his peak in the late 70's to early 80's. The films he made between Deep Red and Opera are not just the best films of his career, but are some of the best horror films ever made. Unfortunately, after that he started putting his daughter, Asia Argento (who couldn't act her way out of a paper bad), in the lead, and his films started to deteriorate in quality. In recent years, however, his films have started to return to form (possibly because Asia Argento is now starring ... Read More
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