This oddly flat serial-killer picture shows none of the baroque flair that characterizes the best of Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento's work, including DEEP RED (1975), TENEBRAE (1982) and OPERA (1987). A psychotic murderer with a reckless double-or-nothing sensibility initiates an especially aggressive game of cat and mouse with the Rome police, e-mailing Insp. Anna Mari (Stefania Rocca) and inviting her to play online poker with the life of a kidnapped tourist (Jennifer Polley) at stake. Anna is reluctant to engage with a sociopath on his own terms, but the police commissioner (Adalberto Maria Merli) insists they go ahead: If they refuse to play the girl will...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins