The Stendhal Syndrome
Director: Dario Argento
Year Released: 1996
Rating: 1.5
Typical Argento flaws in typical Argento film with skewed logic and maniac baddies that has a few pluses but never ascends past mediocrity. The Gothic score by Ennio Morricone is nice change from the worn-out Goblin synthesizers and Asia is a decent performer (considering that she's involved in what I can only term Cinematic Incest, her father 'ordering' his performers to rape her in Hitchcock-from-Frenzy style), though the CGI is out-of-place and it's desperately in need of editing; his pictures all have the same problem of starting strong and getting progressively worse as they go on.
