Trauma (1978)

Trauma (1978)

Directed by: Alberto Negrin
Screenplay by: Peter Berling, Marcello Coscia, Massimo Dallamano,
  Franco Ferrini, Alberto Negrin, and Stefano Ubezio

Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Running Time: 85 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Viewed: Owned DVD

Sweet sixteen ... they'll lose more than just their lives.

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Comments: Alberto Negrin's Enigma Rosso is a rather (unintentionally) hilarious giallo film. The story itself is serious, as is some of the film. However, the dialogue, along with Fabio Testi's portrayal of lead inspector Gianni De Salvo, is completely ridiculous and funny as hell. When's the last time you got someone to give up key information while threatening him on a roller coaster? Also, he delivers the best line in the movie when De Salvo is speaking with the teachers of a 16-year-old girl that was raped and killed. One of the teachers gives him a hard time, and out of nowhere De Salvo shouts, "someone with a cock this big raped Angela Russo and threw her in the river!" Of course, he depicts the cock's size with his hands, which must be about two feet long. My biggest annoyance was not with the ridiculous script, but rather the DVD I watched. Enigma Rosso is part of Mill Creek's 50 movie sets (that I paid around $10 for). I never expect any of these films to be remastered at all, and generally I like the "grindhouse" feel to the films. But Enigma Rosso is zoomed in for some reason, meaning I was usually either watching an extreme close up of someone's face or something in the distant background because the two characters speaking were mostly out of the frame. While this was extremely distracting at first, it only seems to add to the charm now that I have finished watching this silly film.

Also Known As: Enigma Rosso