... Trauma was the outcome.
The cast includes a who's who of familiar faces Piper Laurie from Twin Peaks & Carrie, Asia argento his daughter now a well known actress and director. And not to forget Brad Dourif from Wild Palms and the Childs Play movies in which he played Chucky.
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Traumawas director Dario Argento's big crossover attempt at combining the ... more
Italiangiallogenre with the American stalk 'n'slash. His fans may debate whether the result was a complete success, but the film certainly put his name in front of a wider intern...
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Advantages: Cleverly Thought Out Story Disadvantages: Overlong
...he went to make it. Trauma was the outcome.
The cast includes a who's who of familiar faces Piper Laurie from Twin Peaks & Carrie, Asia argento his daughter now a well known actress and director. And not to forget Brad Dourif from Wild Palms and the Childs Play movies in which he played Chucky.
Whilst holding an Seance a unknown assailent attacks the hosts decapitating both before making off into the night. This leaves ... .../>
In typical Argento fashion, the answers are there from the first scene, but you just dont see them, look back and you will but on first viewing you just dont see them.
Trauma is not one of his greatest works, but its pretty good Viewing. ... more
Legendary Italian Filmaker was commissioned to make an American movie, so off he went to make it. Trauma was the outcome.
The cast includes a who's who of familiar faces Piper Laurie from Twin Peaks & Carrie, Asia argento his daughter now a well known actress and director. And not to forget Brad Dourif from Wild Palms and the Childs Play movies in which he played Chucky.
Whilst holding an Seance a unknown assailent attacks the hosts decapitating both before making off into the night. This leaves your Aura an orphan, she has a history of psychological problems and has been in numerous hospitals. Now psychiatrist Dr. Judd is conviced she knows something about the murder. And strives to get to the truth.
Aura finds help in the form of David a journalist who she encounters shortly after the murders. He decides to help her get to the bottom of her parents murder. Meanwhile however a vicious killer is going around removing heads of hospital staff with a rather nifty device.
In typical Argento fashion, the answers are there from the first scene, but you just dont see them, look back and you will but on first viewing you just dont see them.
Trauma is not one of his greatest works, but its pretty good Viewing.
Advantages: Mostly entertaining and amusing, some hilarious ideas Disadvantages: Not the greatest stand-up I've ever seen...
Alan Davies is probably best known for his role as the main character in the comedy detective show ?Jonathan Creek?. He is also the only regular panellist on the BBC quiz show ?QI?.
Certainly, I became a fan of Alan?s from the ?Jonathan Creek? series and further enjoyed his contributions to QI, however outside of this I?d seen very little of his work. Whilst I?ve always found him funny, I always (quite wrongly) assumed he was a comedic actor, rather than being a stand-up comic.
?Urban Trauma? is Alan?s first stand-up DVD release and is my first experience of him performing in this manner. I managed to purchase it for about £9 from Amazon.
For anyone totally unfamiliar with Alan Davies, I would say that his style of comedy is reminiscent of the likes of Eddie Izzard in particular, but I can see fans of Lee Evans or Bill Bailey ...
Advantages: Quirky horror tale Disadvantages: Lack of special features.
Having starred in dozens of movies previously Trauma was the first movie in which Asia Argento played a leading part. Here she plays a deeply disturbed young woman with bulimia called Aura. Things from her childhood have bothered her all her life, but she is unable to put her finger on exactly what it is. When her parents decide to hold a séance in their home, things come to a head; quite literally. During the gathering the house is plunged into darkness and Aura sees her father running off into the night after an unknown figure. As Aura becomes involved in the chase she wanders into a thicket only to see a dead body and a dark figure holding the heads of both her parents in its hands.
Another first for this movie was that for the first time director Dario Argento had been allowed to legally film in America; and amazingly enough ...
sghawken 03.05.2007
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Advantages: Colin Firth! Disadvantages: Seems to drag and is Cert 15
great detail without giving away the ending.
This film has some intriguing ideas but it fails to deliver them properly. The actors do good work with average material. The style is often too unnecessarily creepy. The scenes with the escaped ants are really horrible.
"Trauma" feels like an especially long episode of a standard BBC crime series, which is not surprising seeing as it's a BBC film. The special effects are not that special and the cast is small. Think "Waking The Dead" without bellowing Trevor Eve. It may be more suited to the small screen, mainly due to the humdrum sets and close-up camera shots.
It goes on general cinema release on 17th Sept but I would recommend waiting until this is out on video, to be honest. ...
Mel27 16.09.2004
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"...Some stops-out baroque horror that briefly recalls the Dario Argento of old....Good-looking widescreen lensing..." (Variety, 14/06/1993)
DVD Description
From the acclaimed Italian horror master Dario Argento comes an eerie, unforgettable tale of terror. Aura (Dario's daughter, Asia), a suicidal anorexic preparing to jump off a bridge, is rescued by David (Christopher Rydell), an artist whom takes an interest in the beautiful girl, and makes it his personal mission to help her. When Aura's mother (Piper Laurie), a psychic, dies just as she is about to divulge the identity of a vicious psychopath, David decides to help Aura find the killer. The pair work to protect one another while embarking on a dangerous search for a murderer who's been slaughtering innocent people with a homemade decapitation device.
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