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The House with Laughing Windows (1976) N
A young restorer is hired to restore a fresco of St. Sebastian in a church of a small village. The original painter, a local who has died recently, was mentally disturbed and obsessed with death and suffering.
I watched The Fifth Cord just couple of days ago and now The House with Laughing Windows. While both are consiodered gialli they act as a great reminder of how vastly different films carry that moniker. Today's film is way more horror and considerably bleaker. Just like the previous film by Pupi Avati, Zeder, it also reminds me of Lucio Fulci (the closest giallo I'd compare this with would be Don't Torture a Duckling).
The House with Laughing Windows keeps it secrets pretty well so in order to avoid spoilers I'll have to keep this review shorter than it deserves to be. On very generic level I did like the writing a lot. There's very creepy and disturbed atmosphere, there's the feeling of isolation and paranoia. It's more violent than Zeder and far more brutal in other ways as well. Definitely one of the best gialli I've seen but I need to warn that it's rather slow paced too.
A young restorer is hired to restore a fresco of St. Sebastian in a church of a small village. The original painter, a local who has died recently, was mentally disturbed and obsessed with death and suffering.
I watched The Fifth Cord just couple of days ago and now The House with Laughing Windows. While both are consiodered gialli they act as a great reminder of how vastly different films carry that moniker. Today's film is way more horror and considerably bleaker. Just like the previous film by Pupi Avati, Zeder, it also reminds me of Lucio Fulci (the closest giallo I'd compare this with would be Don't Torture a Duckling).
The House with Laughing Windows keeps it secrets pretty well so in order to avoid spoilers I'll have to keep this review shorter than it deserves to be. On very generic level I did like the writing a lot. There's very creepy and disturbed atmosphere, there's the feeling of isolation and paranoia. It's more violent than Zeder and far more brutal in other ways as well. Definitely one of the best gialli I've seen but I need to warn that it's rather slow paced too.