A much longer tribute post is pending for this film, but for me, this was one of the most heartbreaking and realistic portrayals of drug addiction ever made. It has more than earned its place on my list of 100 favorite films of all time. I'm not entirely sure that this trailer was the actual German one or a fan one someone put together, and I have yet to locate the English language one, but this may be the closest we'll get to having a trailer for this. It was released onto dvd a few years ago, with the English version (the over-dubbed voices may kill it for some people), and the German language version was without subtitles, which is only available as an import. (GRRR...) I made myself watch the original German version, and after knowing the English, I was still able to follow it. The only beef I have with the dvd version (Image Entertainment), they couldn't find a better transfer. Although most of the camera work was done with hand-held ones so it gave the film more of a documentary style, (which was the effect Ende wanted with this) still the transfer should have looked better than it did, with it looking grainy in places. But I'm not going to quibble over something so minor. At least it's available. Can't say the same for a number of films that haven't seen release here, let alone the dvd treatment. One thing I heard some people say about this film was about the language and jargon in the film. It should help to know that the events portrayed in the film happened during the seventies. When the film was released the real Christiane went with the director on a tour of America when the film came here. She was about twenty at that time. The film came out here around 1982. While I was in Germany on a band trip back in 1981, I heard some kids talk about it after they had asked about my music interests and I enthusiastically replied, I loved David Bowie and that I saw the films he was in. They happened to mention this one to me where he has a brief appearance in it, he lived in Berlin around the late seventies (when he and Brian Eno would collaborate on their famous 'Berlin Trilogy==> Low-"Heroes"-Lodger)and at the time the film was being made, he was on tour in Berlin. The film was based on a book she wrote, based on transcribed interviews she did for Stern magazine.]
One of the more interesting and gory of the Italian Alien, knock-offs that came out of the 1980's. Yes, the creature was a bit ridiculous, but so was this film, but it had very cool Goblin music :-):
This was a very nifty little scare film.
Despite what others have said, this was still a good later effort by Dario Argento. And along with the now classic kill in Suspiria, this film had one of the all time coolest as all fuck kills ever shot on camera. Way to go, Italian special effects peeps! Thank for rocking my horror film world for years!:
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