Mar 31, 2020
Paganini Horror (1989)
"There must be another, more scientific explanation! This can't have happened because someone sold Daniel a piece of cursed music!"
#paganini horror#italian cinema#horror film#1989#luigi cozzi#daria nicolodi#Jasmine Maimone#Pascal Persiano#Maria Cristina Mastrangeli#Michel Klippstein#Pietro Genuardi#Luana Ravegnini#Roberto Giannini#Elena Pompei#Giada Cozzi#donald pleasence#Raimondo Del Balzo#A big old oooof on this one#I was very excited when the folks at 88films put this one out and it was a day 1 buy. Anything with Daria Nicolodi in is guaranteed to#Pique my interest but then add in Donald Pleasence and a rock horror story and I'm sold. Regrettable then that this is such a mess#Oh Daria is great of course and Don has a lot of fun altho his part is really more in the way of a cameo. The plot is preposterous and#Concerns a rock band buying cursed sheet music by paganini which they then arrange in 80s pop style. Cue demons and tortures and some#Woeful effects work. Some last second twists only add to a plot which is already incoherent and sloppy. There is enjoyment here but little#Of it is intended I think. Most entertaining is the frankly astonishingly brazen theft of ELO's Twilight to act as the cursed Paganini#Composition. How they didn't get sued to buggery is beyond me (altho I suppose its entirely possible Jeff Lynne could have gone through#Life without seeing this Italian schlock and guts fest). A slightly bitter disappointment but my own fault for coming in with#Disproportionately high hopes for an Italian horror from the arse end of the 80s
