The seven black notes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The seven black notes |
| Original title | Set note in Nero |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lucio Fulci |
| script | Lucio Fulci Roberto Gianviti Dardano Sacchetti |
| production | Franco Cuccu |
| music |
Franco Bixio Fabio Frizzi Vince Tempera |
| camera | Sergio Salvati |
| cut | Ornella Micheli |
| occupation | |
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The seven black marks (Original title: Sette Note in Nero , international title: The Psychic ) is an Italian Giallo - Thriller from 1977 by Lucio Fulci with Jennifer O'Neill , Gianni Garko , Marc Porel and Gabriele Ferzetti in the lead roles.
action
A woman falls to her death off the cliff. At the same time, little Virginia has a vision of this suicide without realizing that this woman is her mother.
Years later, Virginia has grown up, works as an interior designer, and is married to the smart Italian Francesco Ducci. When she was renovating her husband's country house in Italy, she found the skeleton of a woman behind a crack in the wall. Virginia also had a vision of the death of this woman on her trip to Italy, but the victim in it was around 50 years old and not 25, as the forensic examinations that follow now reveal. Together with her friend, the handsome parapsychologist Luca Fattori, Virginia tries to find out what these visions mean. When it emerges that the dead woman was an ex-girlfriend of Francesco, the result is that he is arrested as the main suspect.
Meanwhile, Virginia and Luca are looking for evidence of Francesco's innocence. Francesco's sister Gloria gives Virginia a very special watch that plays a melody every hour on the hour. Luca discovers a magazine that deals with the death of the unknown and believes Virginia's visions all the more. When he does further research, he comes across the wealthy painting collector Emilio Rospini and discovers that there are many indications of him as a murderer. His further investigations then reveal that Francesco and Emilio killed a woman many years ago while stealing a painting.
When Francesco discovers a treacherous letter on Virginia's chest of drawers, he believes he has been convicted by his wife and kills her. As Virginia dies, she realizes that she foresaw her own death. In the end, Luca has his dead friend's watch in her hand, which is now playing the melody.
Production, background and publication
It is a Rizzoli Film production. The film was shot at Arezzo Airport as well as in Arezzo and Florence in Tuscany ; further recordings were made in the Palazzo Salimbeni in Siena as well as in Siena itself, furthermore in Rome , all in Italy . In addition, in Dover in the county of Kent in England rotated.
The cover of the US edition of the DVD said that Quentin Tarantino is said to have said that The Psychic was "the most exciting film in Lucio Fulci's entire career".
The film song by Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera With you , interpreted by Linda Lee, was released as a single on Cinevox MDF 112; Gil Ventura plays the title melody on it, Sette Note in Nero .
The film premiered on August 10, 1977 in Italy. In the US it ran in March 1979 under the title Death Tolls Seven Times and then again on October 31, 1997 under the new title The Psychic . Another title alternative title is: Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes . It was released in France on March 4, 1981. It was also marketed in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Russia. In Germany it was not shown in the cinema, on December 1, 2014 it was released on DVD with a German soundtrack. Alternatively, it ran under the title Seven Black Notes .
The seven black notes appeared on December 1, 2014 on DVD (93 min.) And on Blu-ray (96 min.), Published by Studio Elea-Media.
criticism
Christian Ade from Filmtipps.at spoke of the fact that the film had become a masterpiece of its genre, [...] the climax "was even increased with the murderously exciting finale, with which the film truly earned the title of 'Suspence-Kino'" . […] In his conclusion, Ade wrote, among other things: “This Giallo here is not only the fillet among Fulci's killer puzzles, but in my opinion even belongs to the crème de la crème of the entire genre. Because The Psychic is nothing less than a terrific psychological thrill! "
In Nightmare horror movies could be read: "Very intelligent Giallo by Lucio Fulci. Much better than Don't Torture a Duckling and about as mysterious as Lizard in a Women's Skin . The story develops very slowly but always in an interesting and clever way. The music is terrific […]. The actors can convince ... [...]. "
Gameware.at said that with the Giallo thriller the Italian cult director Lucio Fulci created an "impressive goosebumps crime thriller" which, with its unique visual dramaturgy and great soundtrack, is one of his best films ".
In Traumathek , too , the film music of Fulci's “loyal comrade Fabio Frizzi” was highlighted and referred to as “one of his best film music”, which contributed to the fact that this film could be called Fulcis “perhaps his best”. It was also read: "Without the hearty Gore deposits that characterize his later works, but also without their hopeless confusion, Fulci created a consistently atmospheric horror film here."
Web links
- The seven black marks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sette Noe in Nero / The Seven Black Notes Information about the film at nischenkino.de
- The seven black notes in synchronkartei.de (dubbing company: Synch! Synch! Kino- und TV-Synchronization GmbH, Hamburg, dialogue book and dialogue director: Angelika Scharf)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Psychic at filmtipps.at. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ The Seven Black Notes DVD
- ↑ The seven black notes - Atmospheric, but not outstanding ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mediabook Limited Edition at kino-zeit.de (with trailer). Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ The seven black notes ( memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at nightmare-horrormovies.de. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ The Psychic - The seven black notes at gameware.at. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ The seven black marks at traumathek.de. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
