Death Walks at Midnight
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured giallo / witness, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
Our read · Death Walks at Midnight (1972) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded giallo · witness · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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“You want stylish 70s Italian giallo thrills with psychedelic visions and a spiked glove killer.”
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