TRAUMA by Dario Argento.

Decapitation of paper dolls ,the sound of sheering crouds and drums. From out of nowhere a dark figure approches and another decapitation accurs, first a blow to the spine leaving the terrified lady paralysed. You can se the terror in her eyes, helplesly she awaits execution. Death comes....

Aura an anorexic Young lady eaten by drugs decides to end her life. She is saved in the last second by David Parson.

When he is bying her breakfast she gets sick and goes to the toilet and throws up. She spots some men from the youth services and runs out and is soon picked up by the men and she is taken back to her parents home. Seance time at her mothers place, somethings happen and her parents are dead.

David takes Aura in and a chase to catch the killer has begun! a lot of heads will fall before the killer is cought. In true Argento feeling dario gives us the audiance a fraud making us belive that everythin happens as we think it did, the evidence is clearly layd out for us to see. but we are all to blind to belive it. The Maistro is realy good at this when say this i refer to "Profondo Rosso" one of Darios best films.

Im not sure why the crittics didnt like this film!? I think that it realy is a traditional Dario Argento movie. Asia plays the role of Aura so well its frightning. And all the elements of a good Italian thriller is there...
I give this film the highest recomandation and i hope that you will se this film and realise that the crittics that didnt like is must have seen some other film.


Per Rahlenbeck.
� 1998



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