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Profondo Torino 1975 -2025: 50 Years of Deep Red

I don't know if it's a sad thing or a happy thing that I went to Turin on my Summer Holiday just to see locations from Dario Argento's classic 'Deep Red' (AKA Profondo Rosso) with a few looks at where they stole all that money in 'The Italian Job'. Wandering into the precise locations of certain movies may seem to be pushing daftness to the limit. But 'Deep Red' was, for me the quintessential perfect movie for many many years. David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi on the hunt for a serial killer because Hemmings is convinced that he has seen something that he has failed to understand.

I could talk about this film endlessly but I won't do that here. This is essentially about Turin and why I think Argento has used it. The architecture with its baroque and art nouveau trimmings, not to mention more marble column colonnades than you could reasonably expect to see anywhere. I was saddened to see that many of the locations I felt I knew so well had rough sleepers and graffiti there to remind us that we are not in a 1975 giallo film. Argento made his streets sparsely populated. Footsteps echo in Argento's film whereas now I dare say it would be hard to hear footsteps above the noise of traffic (and maybe this was the same back then in the real Turin).

Despite all this, it is still a beautiful city and the area up the hill which is home to 'The House of the Screaming Child' probably hasn't changed all that much. There are amazing bars and caffes and the architecture, however spoiled, is still a treat for the eyes. For those who love cinema, it is home to what may be the finest cinema museums which has a tower overlooking the entire city (and from which the last minute or so of this video was filmed).

So here's to one of Dario Argento's crowning achievements as a film-maker and the two stars who occupy much of the centre stage. Not that they are alone but I'm not going to play IMDB and list them here.

Music: Get Back Up by Silent Partner

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