'Footprints on the Moon' aka 'Le Orme' (1975) - Luigi Bazzoni.

This audacious, scintillatingly stylish, and darkly surreal cult classic vividly remains one of the more singularly absorbing, thrillingly enigmatic psychologically tweaked Gialli by a true master of the form, Luigi 'Fifth Cord' Bazzoni. Bazzoni's excitingly exotic, emotionally rich, and wickedly confounding thriller is forcefully driven by a raw central performance of considerable depth and power by the entrancing Argentinean firebrand Florinda Bolkan.

'Footprints on The Moon' is a tantalisingly oblique, visually sumptuous, convention tweaking mystery with immaculate photography from anamorphic maestro Vittorio Storaro; his exquisite compositions eerily invoke a disturbingly dreamlike and genuinely absorbing milieu, which, coupled with Nicola Piovani's emotive, yet subtly sinister score makes for a nightmarishly elliptical journey, deep into the memorably macabre mind-scape of our disturbed, highly strung heroine Alice Carlos (Bolkan). With an effective, albeit minor cameo from the mesmerizingly maniacal Klaus Kinski, Bazzoni's gorgeously genre-bending Giallo is so dreamy-delicious I still can't really believe that it actually exists outside of my own fevered imagination! A fascinating, uncompromisingly bizarre Gialli masterpiece with a visceral climax! Maestro Luigi Bazzoni's oneiric, visually beguiling masterpiece 'Footprints on The Moon' (1975) is a doomy terror trip into the darkside of the loon!

 

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'Mommy said I am made of ethereal material!'