The giallo thriller Death Walks at Midnight has some nice visuals, most giallo films do, but I will admit I found it to be a huge bore and had to watch it in two chunks because I kept falling asleep.
In typical giallo fashion, the plot it pretty preposterous. Susan Scott stars as Valentina, a fashion model who helps out her journalist boyfriend with an article about hallucinogens by taking LSD and letting him observe her reaction. During her trip, she either hallucinates or witnesses a murder, and the rest of the film follows her trying to find the killer, who continues his killing spree.
There's just nothing particularly special about this one, aside from Scott's amazing hair (see above) and an ending that is, I suppose, kind of exciting, if also kind of silly.
I watched Death Walks at Midnight on the Criterion Channel, which has a whole lineup of giallo films this month.
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