1993 · giallo · serial-killer · decapitation
Trauma
Directed by Dario Argento1h 49m1993
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter.
Our read: Trauma (1993) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive giallo · serial-killer · decapitation entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured giallo / serial-killer, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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