Occhi di cristallo (2004) - The Revival of the Giallo!

dbx4 · Last edited by dbx4 on Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Just found out about this new Italian thriller:

Eyes of Crystal / Occhi di cristallo (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382205/
Plot Outline: Inspector Amaldi is eager to hunt down a sophisticated and ferocious psychopath, whose exquisite murders seem to resemble an occult master plan for alchemistic transformations. But apparently the killer is connected with Amaldi's early life.

Several reviews are already touting it as the return of the Giallo!

Make sure you check out the trailer on the official homepage:
http://www.occhidicristallo.it/

The trailer looks damn fine to me and judging from it the director Eros Puglielli definitely has studied his Giallo masters: Knives, killers with black leather gloves, lots of good-looking female victims and excellent atmospheric and colourful cinematography.

Can't wait to see this one, especially since Argento's recent "The Card Player" wasn't much of a giallo... :mrgreen:

GrindCallus · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:49 pm **Post subject:**

Looks interesting to me.

ed2k: Eyes.of.Crystal.(Occhi.Di.Cristallo).[2004].ITA.DivX.DVDRip.DeLuXe.avi  [701.15 Mb] [Stats]

ed2k: Occhi%20Di%20Cristallo.avi  [701.22 Mb] [Stats]

ed2k: Occhi%20di%20Cristallo.avi  [2.03 Gb] [Stats]

Seems to be well spread. Lots of choices apparently. Couldn't find any subtitles, though.
Let's check it out.

:beerchug:

[ Add all 3 links to your ed2k client ]

Member13 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:36 pm **Post subject:**

I've known about this movie for a while, but still haven't found any English subtitles for it. Probably because there's only an Italian DVD release. Hopefully some company picks it up and released it as an English subtitled DVD. Or maybe we need to get some Italian member of these boards to make fan subtitles

dbx4 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:37 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks for the ed2k links GrindCallus! :beerchug:

I too hope that English subtitles surface someday...

GrindCallus · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:42 am **Post subject:**

Okay, I found a DVD cover. Its says on the back, that the languages include English, as do the subtitles. The first posted link looks to be the most promising, but there are many more apparently. probably some are fake and/or just plain bad. Sketchy file sizes....

See it here:

[img=http://images.dead-donkey.com/images/divxitaocchidicristallobyleond.jpg]

Hopefully a verified and proper release will be done/found eventually.

dbx4 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:11 pm **Post subject:**

GrindCallus wrote:

Okay, I found a DVD cover. Its says on the back, that the languages include English, as do the subtitles..

Weird. Very very weird.

Looking at the list of audio tracks listed on that cover does make me suspicious... Italian, English, French, Spanish. So many dubs all on one DVD?

This seems to be the "01 Distribution" DVD. I checked several Italian online DVD stores and they all consistantly list the "01 Distribution" DVD with only one audio track (Italian) and only Italian subtitles. E.g.:
http://www.italiadvd.it/shop/dvd.php?e= ... 0cristallo

I also stumbled upon this blog of some guy who bought the DVD, watched the movie without subtitles, without understanding a word and still liked it :lol:

http://whiggles.landofwhimsy.com/2005/0 ... bacle.html

Quote:

Despite being in Italian without any English subtitles, I thoroughly enjoyed Eros Puglielli's Occhi di Cristallo. [...] PS. I believe it gets a UK release later this year, with English subs.

I hope he is right about the UK release

GrindCallus · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:22 pm **Post subject:**

Hmmm.... well I've got 50% of this rip now:

ed2k: Eyes.of.Crystal.(Occhi.Di.Cristallo).[2004].ITA.DivX.DVDRip.DeLuXe.avi [701.15 Mb] [Stats]

Its got about 300 sources, so its going steady. Cant wait to check it out. I need to brush up on my italian anyway. I'm interested to see the 'rivival of giallo'. (remember when people were trumpeting 'Saw' as such!?! :roll:

)

odinbolt · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:12 pm **Post subject:**

Looks good,thanks.

tbz · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:04 pm **Post subject:**

Watched it at a festival. Very disapointing movie :-(

Looked like a TV-Production and the plot was full of holes.. 5/10

GrindCallus · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:02 pm **Post subject:**

yeah it wasn't very good. Though I understood about 20% of what was going on, so I couldn't pick out any plot holes per se. Definitely felt cheap. I'd probably give it another shot if there were subs.

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