qmtv Excellent Movie, great cinematography, lighting, scenes, editing, acting, music. The story needed more work.I am no expert in giallo, but this was different that others I've seen. The movie was professionally done, great camera angles. The lighting was great, some bring colors here and there, nothing overbearing. The acting was great. The version I saw had English subtitles, so heard the tone of the actors, but may have missed some facial expressions while reading the subtitles. The main actress was great, very beautiful and expressed fear very well. The editing was professional. No extra scenes thrown in to extend playing time. Music was great too. The story definitely needed more work. I didn't care for the cult scenes. They were done well, but it didn't work for me.A professional production. Rating is a B, for a B movie, 8 stars.

Tender-Flesh A pseudo-giallo, All the Colors... once again puts Edwige behind the knife, or rather in front of it and sometimes under it, when she stumbles(or is she lead?) into a satanic cult. Say it ain't so. Now, even on a rainy day when I'm all out of meth, I don't go in for satanic cult movies since they bore me. But, I started to enjoy this film in spite of myself, though I was expecting less devil and more giallo. If you are expecting the razor wielding sex maniac in black gloves to stalk beautiful girls to kick ass music, look elsewhere.What you get here instead is Jane, a poor gal suffering from nightmares and also possibly daymares. Her beau, Richard, is often away from their flat, leaving her to her nightmares since she refuses to take her vitamins or whatnot. So, a new neighbor offers to take her to a black mass to help rid her of this weird dude named Mark who keeps stalking her and feeling her up with his cool blue eyes. However, all is not well, since after she goes to the mass, she realizes Mark belongs to the coven. D'oh! And now he starts showing up even more, which means Jane was gang raped for nothing. I hate it when that happens. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm always up for a black mass when I'm having nightmares or if some weird person shows up at a couple of places I've been recently. I'm sort of surprised more doctors don't recommend it. Anyway, except for Mark and the mass ringleader, McBride(who looks like a devilish Robert Downey Jr.), the rest of the cultists look like rejects from a Wiccan ceremony held in a local park.Director Sergio has a few good moments of nice camera-work, lighting, effective music, but overall it struck me as rather average, if watchable. Obvious inspirations from Rosemary's Baby abound.

Witchfinder General 666 Sergio Martino has proved himself to be a brilliant Giallo director on many occasions, films like "The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh" (1971), "The Scorpion's Tail" (1971) "Torso" (1973) or "Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key" (1972, greatest title ever) speak for themselves. "Tutti i colori del buio" aka. "All The Colors Of The Dark" of 1972, starring genre-goddess Edwige Fenech, is yet another great entry to the man's repertoire, an immensely creepy and nightmarish, yet beautiful psychedelic Giallo that Italian Horror fans can not allow themselves to miss. While this is not a very typical Giallo (no gloved killer butchering dozens of beauty queens here), it is definitely essential for all Giallo-lovers. The film, which is very suspenseful from the very beginning, has a unique, mesmerizing atmosphere, which is not least due to the brilliant cinematography and the downright ingenious psychedelic score by maestro Bruno Nicolai.The ravishing Edwige Fenech stars as Jane, a young woman who lost her unborn baby in a car accident, and who is now tormented by terrible nightmares and the paranoia that somebody is following her. Both her husband (regular Giallo leading man George Hilton) and her sister (fellow beautiful cult-cinema actress Nieves Navarro) want to help her, but while her husband insists on medication, her sister is convinced that a psychiatrist is the right answer. Both methods are either non-effective, or have an opposite effect, as the menacing feeling is just getting worse... I don't want to give any more away, since this is a truly unpredictable film that every fellow Giallo-fan should enjoy as intensely as possible. Due to a occult subplot, this is sometimes labeled as a kind of Giallo version of "Rosemary's Baby", but these comparisons are not really adequate. There are two 'Satanic' Gialli from the early 70s, Aldo Lado's "Short Night Of The Glass Dolls" and this one, and while many a fellow Giallo-fan might disagree, I personally prefer "All The Colors Of The Dark" by far. Both films are visually stunning and greatly acted, but this one easily surpasses the other in suspense and creepiness. As mentioned above, the camera work is brilliant, and the ingenious score is both beautiful and eerie, which gives the film a menacing atmosphere and constant tension. Sexy Edwige Fenech is once again stunningly beautiful and great in the lead, a role which seems to have been written for her specifically. George Hilton also delivers a good performance in the male lead, Fenech and Hilton starred together in a number of Gialli, and they once again match very well here. Cult-siren Nieves Navarro, who is known for her roles in different genres of Italian cinema, be it Spaghetti Westerns such as "The Big Gundown" or Cannibal-Sexploitation such as "Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals" is also great in the role of the sister. The supporting cast furthermore includes Exploitation-star Ivan Rassimov in a genuinely creepy role. The violence is not quite as gory and brutal as I had expected, but still intense enough to satisfy the gore-hounds out there. All said, "Tutti I Colori Del Buio" is a mesmerizing, convoluted and unpredictable Giallo, and another proof that Sergio Martino is a great director. A must-see for my fellow Giallo-buffs, and also highly recommended to all other Horror fans!

capkronos Opening with a knockout dream sequence (featuring a blue-eyed killer stabbing to death a grotesque old lady with rotten teeth, a pregnant woman on a doctor's table and a nude woman on a bed), this giallo seems to be taking a unusual path by twisting around the conventions set down by the genre. It actually works pretty well even though there's about one too many convoluted plot elements squeezed in at the very end. Edwige Fenech (previously seen in Martino's STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH) fits comfortably in her usual mentally-screwed-up-beautiful-lady-in-distress spot as Jane Harrison, a nightmare-plagued woman living in London whose mother was murdered when she was a child. Her live-in fiancé Richard (George Hilton) seems kind, patient and understanding, but he's also away most of the time at work. Jane's sister Barbara ("Susan Scott"/Nieves Navarro) also appears to be sympathetic and protective of her sister and takes her to see a psychiatrist (Georges Rigaud) who attempts to unlock the secrets of her past. After her session, Jane is pursued in a subway by the same sinister man from her dreams with the cracked blue eyes (a wonderfully creepy Ivan Rassimov in some interesting contacts). He follows her home and starts keeping watch outside of her apartment house. Jane is befriended by a new tenant named Mary (Marina Malfatti), who claims she has the answer to all of Jane's problems and then things start to get even weirder.So before long, Jane finds herself up to her neck in a black magic cult working out of a secluded castle and headed by a guy (Julian Ugarte) who wears Freddy-like claws on his hands. During her initiation, they make her drink fresh dog's blood and pass her around during a sex orgy, where she's fondled by zombie-like pasty-faced cult members. After she's pursued by the killer once again and apparently unperturbed by her first traumatic encounter with the Satanists, Jane becomes desperate enough to return to the cult, where they convince her she'll be "free" from the killer if she does just as they say. The cult leader has sex with her again and give her a knife. Mary kills herself by falling over on it and then Jane is informed she's obligated to take her place. And guess who else is involved in the Satanic sect? Why the mysterious blue-eyed killer, of course! When Jane tries to escape them, he sends Doberman's after her to chew up her arms and then chloroforms her. She wakes up back in her apartment. Are these events actually taking place or are they simply delusions in her pretty little disturbed head? After a rapid-fire succession of murders, plot twists and maybe even a prophetic dream insert, a police inspector finally reveals our answer.As usual with the majority of giallo efforts, the script is far from rock solid, but technically speaking, this movie is quite good. Martino's direction is smoother, more stylish and much more assured than it was in STRANGE VICE. Miguel Fernandez Mila and Giancarlo Ferrando's vivid, surreal and sometimes psychedelic cinematography and Bruno Nicolai's score are both huge pluses and add immensely to this film. And while there's the requisite amount of Fenech flesh on display and some blood, the film is more concerned with style and story than it is providing cheap thrills. All around, the cast is very good.  TUTTI I COLOR DEL BUIO/ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK originally made it to US theaters in 1975 under the title THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU. It was then released to VHS as either DAY OF THE MANIAC or DEMONS OF THE DEAD. The Shriek Show DVD contains a lot of goodies, like separate interviews with the director (who claims ROSEMARY'S BABY was a chief influence) and star George Hilton, a photo gallery, alternate US title sequence, the original Italian trailer and radio spots, plus four other unrelated trailers.