Dad got four months in jail, mother for house arrest for three months.
Pretty lenient considering they let an infant suffer needlessly.
Remember when that black mother left her kids in the running car to go to a job interview? She was sentenced to 18 years of probation. Wow..
Remember the black mom who left her kids IN A FOOD COURT for a job interview & was charged with child abandonment? Wow. Interesting
White people: literally kill their child out of willing ignorance, slap on the wrist
Black people: attempts to improve their livelihood & leaves their children for less than 30min in a nearby public location or with a whole babysitter & is lawfully reprimanded for decades
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Umberto Lenzi is one of my favorite directors and I love his giallo thrillers. Gialli are famous for featuring convoluted plot lines, but this one takes the cake! Spasmo is a weird film, even by giallo standards. The script jumps all over the place, and the convoluted plot twists feels like something straight out of a David Lynch movie. The film stars Robert Hoffman as Christian, a rich playboy, who finds a girl he mistakenly thinks is dead on a beach (the lovely Suzy Kendall of The Bird With the Crystal Plumage). Christian is then invited to her motel to have sex, but he is jumped in the bathroom by a pistol-wielding thug whom he accidentally kills! Or does he?? Moments later the body mysteriously disappears, with only the pistol and some blood on the bathroom floor to signify that the incident really happened. Or did it?? They decide to flee to a sea-front villa where a series of weird incidents take place, and the film periodically cuts away from the main plot to show us some weird mannequins with fake blood on them, all in various states of undress, tied to trees or dumped in the woods. Like I said, bizarre. I haven’t seen anything else quite like it before. Spasmo has a confusing first hour, populated by oddball characters, and it’s pretty tame compared to the works of Fulci, Argento or even Bava. Nonetheless, it works. I love this kind of bizarre cinema, and I don’t think the lack of violence and nudity hurt the film at all. It puts more focus on the plot. The story is a bit complicated, very bizarre and strangely hypnotic, so it’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved it!! It’s not as good as Seven Blood-Stained Orchids or as fun as Eyeball (two of Lenzi’s best) but it’s very entertaining, and the last scene neatly wraps up everything - even the mystery of the rubber dolls. The acting is better than you’ll see in most gialli, especially by Hoffman, Kendall and Eurocult legend Ivan Rassimov. Good ol’ Lenzi shows that he’s a competent director, creating genuine suspense as well as some haunting imagery, and it doesn’t hurt that the film has a dreamy soundtrack by the one and only Ennio Morricone.
Spasmo Release year: 1974 Country: Italy Director: Umberto Lenzi Stars: Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall, Ivan Rassimov, Adolfo Lastretti
Top-notch Giallo from the master of Italian horror: SLEEPLESS review
Italian horror master Dario Argento returned to his giallo roots in 2001 with Sleepless – a solid and violent mystery about a retired police detective (the late, great Max Von Sydow) who launches his own private investigation to catch a serial killer, a hunchbacked midget, who has returned to Turin, Italy after 17 years. Sleepless is another great Dario Argento movie and there’s plenty of his wonderful stylish touches. It has a great, pulse-pounding soundtrack by Goblin, the tension is built up nicely and all the familiar trappings are here: the black-gloved killer, gory murders (including a nasty death caused by a musical instrument) and protagonists unraveling the mystery outside of the official investigation. I absolutely loved this film - but unlike films like Deep Red, Opera and Tenebre, it’s flawed: Sleepless is dragged down by the stiff performances of its younger cast members. Their skills rank in a barely registerable zone and they probably couldn’t even pull off a role as a coma victim. But the older actors are great, especially Max Von Sydow (an undeniable legend!) who serves as the film’s tent pole. He is without any shadow of a doubt one of the greatest actors of all time, and his roles in The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor and Flash Gordon will live on forever. Sleepless is a very entertaining film and it delivers the thrills and the chills I’ve come to expect from Argento, so the bad acting can be forgiven. Just sit back, have some vino and enjoy this good, old-fashioned giallo.
Sleepless (”Non ho sonno”) Release year: 2001 Country: Italy Director: Dario Argento Stars: Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Gabriele Lavia
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