Phantom of Death (1988)
- 1988
- ·R
- ·90 min
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man.
Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed.
The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable.
In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions.
- Actors
- Donald Pleasence·Edwige Fenech·Mapi Galán·Michael York
- Directed by
- Ruggero Deodato
- Genre
- Horror·Thriller
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Director
- Ruggero Deodato
"Phantom of Death" is one of those movies that makes you wonder if the director called in sick for its entire production. Its sprawling, shambolic pacing and editing seems to do everything it can to prevent you from caring about what's going on on-screen.
A successful pianist, surrounded by beautiful female admirers, is dogged by a string of murders that seem to follow him around. The movie follows him as his life begins to unravel.
Ruggero Deodato, how I love you. I love that you somehow convinced a real actor, Michael York, to be in an insane film about a man getting progeria way past its due date and murdering people left and right.
