Please look now! One of the most classic and authentic intense thriller can be titled, Don't Look Now, by Nicolas Roeg, retaining a cult with thriller fans and a masterpiece by a masterful director.
Set in a gloomy Venice surrounding, a well-fit location merging terror and suspense around every eerie turn, leisurely building an unpredictable climax.
The story opens with two children playing outside, in what seems to be an English field, while their parents reside inside the house. The father, played by the explosive Donald Sutherland, is working on some photo negatives when he has a strange revelation, to the shock he runs outside and finds his daughter has 'already' drowned.
Donald Sutherland's pinpoint expressions and movement, Roeg's perfectionist scenes, bringing even the negligible of objects into focus and anticipation, allows Don't Look Now an original yet unusual thriller, a cinema in itself.
Roeg uses paradox as a catalyst, a paradox of a blind woman with… more »

Please look now! One of the most classic and authentic intense thriller can be titled, Don't Look Now, by Nicolas Roeg, retaining a cult with thriller fans and a masterpiece by a masterful director.
Set in a gloomy Venice surrounding, a well-fit location merging terror and suspense around every eerie turn, leisurely building an unpredictable climax.
The story opens with two children playing outside, in what seems to be an English field, while their parents reside inside the house. The father, played by the explosive Donald Sutherland, is working on some photo negatives when he has a strange revelation, to the shock he runs outside and finds his daughter has 'already' drowned.
Donald Sutherland's pinpoint expressions and movement, Roeg's perfectionist scenes, bringing even the negligible of objects into focus and anticipation, allows Don't Look Now an original yet unusual thriller, a cinema in itself.
Roeg uses paradox as a catalyst, a paradox of a blind woman with uncanny psychic foreseeing vision and the paradox of replacing his dead daughter with...

Set against a dreary Venice backdrop (strange, as Venice is usually portrayed as a rather idyllic and peaceful place), this bleak horror film is overflowing with an eerie atmosphere which builds and builds to a raging climax. While featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a husband and wife who's young daughter Christine drowns, leaving them depressed and detached from each other. However, on this trip to Venice, Christie's character meets two elderly sisters (one of them blind) who claim to have powers and tell her they can see Christine. Christie's character then becomes adamant that Christine is still with her parents. Sutherland's character John is unconvinced, until he sees a small figure in the same sort of red mackintosh his daughter used to wear. Yet, there is a serial killer on the loose, and is John playing into their hands? There are many different confusing plot points which keep your mind thinking all the way through, and you are not guaranteed to 'get' this… more »

Set against a dreary Venice backdrop (strange, as Venice is usually portrayed as a rather idyllic and peaceful place), this bleak horror film is overflowing with an eerie atmosphere which builds and builds to a raging climax. While featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a husband and wife who's young daughter Christine drowns, leaving them depressed and detached from each other. However, on this trip to Venice, Christie's character meets two elderly sisters (one of them blind) who claim to have powers and tell her they can see Christine. Christie's character then becomes adamant that Christine is still with her parents. Sutherland's character John is unconvinced, until he sees a small figure in the same sort of red mackintosh his daughter used to wear. Yet, there is a serial killer on the loose, and is John playing into their hands? There are many different confusing plot points which keep your mind thinking all the way through, and you are not guaranteed to 'get' this film the first time you watch it. However it should be watched just because of that shocker ending. Even if you know what is going to happen, it still packs one Hell of a punch. Five stars, indefinitely.