L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo 1970

Critics score:
91 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: [It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new decor. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Dario Argento's undistinguished Italian thriller was an unexpected hit in 1969, thanks largely, one suspects, to some violent scenes that were unusually graphic for their time. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Its scares are on a much more basic level than in, say, a thriller by Hitchcock. It works mostly by exploiting our fear of the dark. Read more

David Thompson, Time Out: Now king of the spaghetti slasher, Argento made his directorial debut with this tightly constructed thriller. Read more