Two Evil Eyes

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Movie
German title Two Evil Eyes
Original title Due occhi diabolici
Country of production Italy
United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked
Rod
Director Dario Argento
George A. Romero
script Dario Argento
Franco Ferrini
George A. Romero
production Achille Manzotti
Dario Argento
George A. Romero
music Pino Donaggio
camera Peter Reniers
cut Pasquale Buba
occupation

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Black Cat

Two Evil Eyes (Original title: Due occhi diabolici ) is an Italian and American horror film by Dario Argento and George A. Romero from 1990. The film is designed as an episode film , the episodes of which are loosely based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe . Romero's segment is based on the short story The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (German title: Die Tatsachen im Fall Waldemar ) and Argentos on The Black Cat (German title: Der Schwarze Kater ).

action

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
Ernest Valdemar is dying. His young wife Jessica cheats on him with his doctor Robert Hoffman and tries with his help to transfer the old man's fortune to her. To do this, Robert hypnotizes Ernest and hypnotizes him to make calls to his lawyer. One evening it seems as if Ernest has died. Since the assets will only be transferred to Jessica if he is still alive, she and Robert hide the body in a freezer. Shortly afterwards, Jessica begins to hear her husband's voice. Robert finds out that Ernest is dead, but was still under hypnosis when he died. After a while, Ernest escapes his icy grave thanks to the voices that will not let him die . Jessica dies trying to permanently eliminate Ernest. One night Robert is killed by the voices .
"The Black Cat"
The crime scene photographer Rod Usher is working on an illustrated book entitled " Metropolitan Horrors ". However, he can only go about his work to a limited extent as he is distracted by the black cat of his fiancée Annabel. He is very aggressive with them and constantly attacks him. One day, when he was heavily drunk, he tortured the cat in order to take pictures for his picture book and killed her in the process. When Annabel discovers Rod's photo book in a library, she realizes the truth and makes the decision to part with Rod. When she wants to move out, she is surprised by Rod and killed by him in the course of the argument. Then he walled up the body in the house. In order to pretend to his neighbors that Annabel is still alive, he makes a doll that is similar to her and goes on vacation with it so that the neighbors can notice the departure. After his return, Detective LeGrand visits him because Annabel has gone missing. He questions Annabel's whereabouts. In the course of the house search, LeGrand handcuffed Rod and his assistant found Annabel's walled-in body. Rod kills them both and hangs himself while trying to loosen the shackles.

criticism

"Moving both episodes into the present robs the routinely staged horror food of its atmospheric atmosphere."

- Lexicon of international film

“[…] The two genre greats Romero and Argento get together again, and what comes out of it this time: a film with mediocre content, great in its Gore scenes, which ultimately disappoints rather than blows you off your feet. [...] "

- Frank Trebbin, Fear sits next to you , ISBN 3-929234-03-3 , page 617.

production

Tom Savini was hired for the special effects and plays a short role as a serial killer in the episode The Black Cat , in which he resembles Edgar Allan Poe through the make-up .

The film was unindexed in December 2016.

Awards

The film was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award in the Best Genre Video Release category.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two Evil Eyes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Special Making OF on several versions of 84 Entertainment
  3. ↑ Award table on imdb.com

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