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Hatchet For The Honeymoon (1974)
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| Actor |
| Laura Betti |
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| Jeffrey Chase |
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| Stephen Forsythe |
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| Jennifer Hartley |
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| Dagmar Lassander |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Horror |
| Director |
Mario Bava |
| Studio |
Alpha Video |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG (Parental Guidance) |
| Running Time |
88 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| John Harrington (Stephen Forsyth) is a successful, handsome, somewhat vain young man who runs a fashion studio. He's also, unfortunately, quite insane. Driven by an overpowering Oedipus complex and the recurring image of his dead wife, Harrington has a compulsion to kill women after dressing them in bridal gowns. With each murder, the root cause of his psychosis is a little closer to being fully revealed, until a long-repressed memory finally comes clear. As with many movies of the giallo genre, Bava's film is somewhat short on plot and long on style. The director's questions about a shifting surface of reality come up again and again; Harrington's obsession with fashion and his own primping can be taken as metaphors for that issue. The narrative is reeled off in a somewhat offhand manner, though, and Harrington, though tragic, is not a character with whom the audience can sympathize. The film's long suit, however, is style, and Bava's trademarks are present throughout: red- and blue-lit sets, zoom shots, gauzy flashbacks, inventive camera work and compositions. Bear with the movie's story pretensions and sluggish pace, and you'll find a giallo that, while it doesn't rank with the best of Mario Bava, still has interesting points to recommend it. --Jerry Renshaw |
| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Fullscreen (4:3) |
| UPC (Barcode) |
089218305695 |
| Release Date |
4/16/02 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital Mono [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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