Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet
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Actor: Fulvio Mingozzi, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Tom Felleghy
Brand: KOCH ENT.
Cinematographer: Franco di Giacomo
Composer: Ennio Morricone
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Mya Communication/Ryko
Product features:
  • DARIO ARGENTOS FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET (DVD MOVIE)

DVD Reviews of Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet

DVD Review: Dario Argento's Early masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars

This film wraps up Argento's "Animal Trilogy", which included 'Bird With The Crystal Plumage' and 'Cat 'O Nine Tails'. 'Four Flies' is the best of his early films, and next to 'Suspiria' is arguably his best work. Like everything he does, it is gorgeously photographed and quite stylish, with beautiful sets and locations. This film is full of Hitchcock-like mystery, suspense, twists, and a noir atmosphere. I highly recommend this film for anyone interested in thrillers, mysteries, slasher movies, or people interested in exploring the dark-hearted, mad world of Argento.

DVD Review: Horrible Horror film
Summary: 2 Stars

I bought this for a friend, and she said it was not like the movie that she remembered it to be. She was rather disappointed in it. She decided to keep it though. I watched it with her and since I had never seen it, I couldn't compare. I don't care for horror films, so i didn't particularly like it.

DVD Review: Expensive Bootleg
Summary: 1 Stars

It is being heavily argued that this dvd is not legal, and with good argument. Bottom line for the potential buyer- the audio pitch is off, distorting the entire soundtrack, there is missing footage, there are no extras, and it costs as much as a blu-ray. BUYER BEWARE!

Check Mya Communications track record, it speaks for itself and it ain't pretty.

DVD Review: Lesser effort from maestro Argento
Summary: 3 Stars

FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET
[Quattro Mosche di Velluto Grigio]

(Italy/France - 1972)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Techniscope)
Theatrical soundtrack: Mono

A rock drummer (Michael Brandon) is terrorized by a masked stranger who possesses incriminating photographs of an incident in which Brandon accidentally killed a man. Blackmail and murder ensue...

A step up from the convoluted machinations of THE CAT O'NINE TAILS (1970), FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET is little more than a dress rehearsal for the visual flourishes that would distinguish director Dario Argento's later work. The restless camera and flashy editing techniques which lift "Flies" out of its genre rut are mere indicators of the chaotic splendor to come, though here it's largely wasted on a flimsy narrative stretched almost to breaking point. Though reportedly unhappy with Brandon's casting (a role offered to any number of disparate actors, including Tony Musante, Terence Stamp, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michael York and James Taylor!), Argento draws an effective performance from his leading man as the innocent protagonist caught up in events beyond his control, as a masked figure emerges from the shadows to eliminate anyone who stumbles on his/her identity. The resolution is ripe with Freudian excess, and concludes with a spectacular demise for the psychopathic villain, using state-of-the-art camera-work in typical Argento fashion.

As in his first two films, Argento includes a variety of eccentric supporting characters, often to distracting comic effect (eg. a running gag with Brandon's postman, culminating in what amounts to a criminal assault - played for laughs!), and while the horror set-pieces are often vividly realized - most notably, the scene in which Brandon's blackmailing maid (Marisa Fabbri) finds herself trapped in a lonely park with the killer, a sequence which refers backward to a similar scenario in Jacques Tourneur's THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) and forward to John Saxon's final sequence in Argento's TENEBRAE (1982) - the pace is labored and dull, especially during expository dialogue scenes.

Mimsy Farmer makes a fair impression as Brandon's nervous wife, while popular Italian character actor Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) plays Brandon's closest friend, a bad-tempered fisherman who helps him solve the unfolding mystery. Jean-Pierre Marielle camps it up as a gay private detective with a poor track record of catching criminals, a role which borders on caricature and ends ignobly (in a public lavatory, no less!). All in all, a minor entry in the director's filmography, elevated to mythic status by legal problems which prevented its appearance on home video until the early 21st century, and while the film exercises a gamut of stylistic concerns (Argento followed it with an unlikely detour into historical comedy, FIVE DAYS OF MILAN, before cutting loose with his giallo masterpiece DEEP RED), it amounts to little more than a footnote in horror history.

DVD Review: Almost great.
Summary: 4 Stars

Look, it's a vast improvement on the German semi bootleg that was floating around last year. Shame about the scratches on the print near the end. If you like Argento, you'll love this. Others may find its quirks a little odd. Those looking for a first Argento film should try Deep Red or Suspiria. That said, the Morricone score is worth admission price alone and there's some nice editing.

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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 02/24/2009

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