The production values are minimalistic. I loved the police detectives who seemed to know nothing about their firearms, and were in fact, at one point, pointing their pistols at each other. The detectives seemed to not care about half a dozen people touching evidence, that might have contained fingerprints (at a minimum), or some other evidentiary information.
Furthermore, some of the characters, especially the victims, clearly seem to have had a lobotomy, resulting in IQ's that would be represented by negative numbers.
Sure, it's "just horror", but there are smart/clever horror films, where the characters don't seem to be intentionally trying to be killed, and you are "pulling" for them. That wasn't the case for any of these characters. I just bailed out about midway through, and decided got not waist any more time with it.
Argento has had some good work, this was not one of them.
Furthermore, some of the characters, especially the victims, clearly seem to have had a lobotomy, resulting in IQ's that would be represented by negative numbers.
Sure, it's "just horror", but there are smart/clever horror films, where the characters don't seem to be intentionally trying to be killed, and you are "pulling" for them. That wasn't the case for any of these characters. I just bailed out about midway through, and decided got not waist any more time with it.
Argento has had some good work, this was not one of them.