About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. 10 of 11 people found this review helpful. since we have a psychic how come it doesn't know already who the killer is or something more concrete.

Ever since, she's had similar visions of things she couldn't possibly know.Psychic is a subtle giallo, which manages to be quite gripping without excesses of violence or any nudity. The Letterboxd community is full of spirited, inquisitive and sometimes opinionated characters who mostly follow our community guidelines and interact in a friendly and courteous manner. Day 25: On August 25,1979 Lucio Fulci released Zombi 2. !in fulci's last giallo, Don't Torture a Duckling, the emblem of Masculo-Patriachal Order (the Priest) is thrown from a cliff, smashing his face and body into the rocks in Violent Outbursts ::: he is DESTROYEDin the opening scene of The Pyschic, the scene is repeated but here it is the face of our hero's mother falling, smashing into the rockface, committing suicide by throwing herself into the liminal negaspace of the atlantic ocean.these are some of the only blatantly violent images in the film -- and the relative scarcity of violence heightens its symbolic importance ::: fulci has…Lucio Fulci may have been most famous for his gut munching gore movies, but he also made some of the best Giallo films; Murder to the Tune of Seven Black Notes is certainly one of them!
The film focuses on a psychic who discovers a body hidden in the wall of her husbands house, after having a vision of the girl's death. Fulci, however, doesn't give a fuck about the formula; his interest is in suspense. Was this review helpful to you? Jennifer O'Neill gains some kind of second sight after witnessing her mother's suicide as a child.

And he uses the premonitions of his protagonist to tell us exactly what's going to happen to her--but not how--and let us cringe as she walks right into it. This would be a very dumb reason not to watch a Fulci film though. The obvious reason is that, of course, you know how they're going to end (either it comes true or it doesn't) and more often than not these stories hew close to the formula. Well worth a read.… We get three intense closeups on the face as the body is falling — shredding flesh against the jagged rocks in ridiculously bloody fashion. Now she must re-think all her vision to find out the mystery.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Is it preordained? It's a whodunnit?/giallo that features lots of twists and turns and some tense chase scenes. But that's not his way! Visions of self destruction, rustic, rotting structures barely containing the horrors they hide, a neo-gothic set design. Certainly, there's a good portion of the film spent on red herrings--and they're intriguing enough to be worth watching--but it all leads up to an inevitable showdown, a moment fated to occur, and the horror…Oh Lucio, most directors would just toss the dummy off the cliff and be done with the scene. The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. !I really love all the hats in this. Love the way his cinema dements more and more as it goes on. A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband. And a psychic woman who witnesses a murder even though she's not sure who was killed, where they were killed...she doesn't know anything except what the victim looks like and the room in which she was killed. Other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, and the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

It also wears its Deep Red envy on its sleeve, beyond its clairvoyant set-up, minimal…Lucio Fulci war ein großer italienischer Dramatiker, dessen Name im Pantheon derselben neben jene von Goldoni, Pirandello und Fo gemeißelt gehört. Feel free…All the films mentioned by name in Kim Newman's definitive encyclopedia of horror films, Nightmare Movies. Driving through a subway, she finds ans strange vision of a murder. Neben jene seiner unmittelbaren Kollegen Passolini, Bava und Argento sowieso. A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves. No? Ligottian.Terceiro e último giallo de Lucio Fulci nos anos 1970, vindo após os icônicos Uma Lagartixa num Corpo de Mulher (1971) e O Segredo do Bosque dos Sonhos (1972), Premonição traz uma abordagem inovadora para o gênero, distanciando-se do gore e até de outras convenções que esperamos encontrar nos gialli, trabalhando mais o medo, o sangue, os assassinatos e os elementos psicológicos dentro de uma esfera parcialmente sobrenatural: o fato de Virginia Ducci (Jennifer O'Neill), a protagonista da história, ter a capacidade de ver tragédias que estão acontecendo à distância, ou que ainda acontecerão.Less patient viewers may bail before the final 30 minutes which are excellent.In general, I am not a fan of thrillers (or gialli for that matter) that feature a psychic who helps solving a murder mystery with their psychic powers because I feel it is a cheap way to move the plot forward. That is all. Life is hard, but here’s one thing we can make easier: how to choose what you watch next.

Nevertheless it has a great performance from Jennifer O Neill, tons of atmosphere and an amazingly tense ending.Favorite Fulci, had me absolutely hooked.