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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

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6.5/10 • 405

1971-12-171h 44m

HorrorThrillerMystery

When the flies start to crawl, so will your flesh...

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.

Directors
Dario Argento
Editors
Françoise Bonnot

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Michael Brandon

    Michael Brandon

    Roberto Tobias

  2. Mimsy Farmer

    Mimsy Farmer

    Nina Tobias

  3. Jean-Pierre Marielle

    Jean-Pierre Marielle

    Gianni Arrosio

  4. Aldo Bufi Landi

    Aldo Bufi Landi

    Pathologist

  5. Calisto Calisti

    Calisto Calisti

    Carlo Marosi

  6. Marisa Fabbri

    Marisa Fabbri

    Amelia, the Maid

  7. Oreste Lionello

    Oreste Lionello

    The Professor

  8. Fabrizio Moroni

    Fabrizio Moroni

    Mirko

  9. Corrado Olmi

    Corrado Olmi

    Porter

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CinemaSerf

Aug 10, 2023

6/10

This could have worked better for me had Dario Argento not cast the pretty hapless Michael Brandon in the lead. He is "Roberto", a drummer in a mediocre rock band who gets it into his head that he is being followed! One night, he lies in wait for and apprehends this man in a derelict opera house - but in the ensuing struggle he manages to stab his phantom and kill him. If that wasn't bad enough, the next day he receives some photographs of him doing that very deed and his is now, of course, ripe for blackmail. But by whom? Why? In any case he'd better find out pronto as gradually we discover that many associated with him are falling foul of his new nemesis too! At times this is actually quite (deliberately) funny. Perhaps a little contrived at times, but there are moments that raise a smile as the characters all trip over themselves to get in (and out) of the action. The ending - well that's a turn up for the books that really does make the film worth sticking with. Not Argento's best work, though quite possibly Brandon's, and though it's a bit too long and a bit thinly spread, it's still just about worth a gander.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
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Keywords
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