Trauma (1993)
Asia Argento plays a troubled young woman who may hold the key to tracking down the serial killer who murdered her parents.
Sadly her semi romantic relationship with local journalist Christopher Rydell slows proceedings to a standstill and turns an average Argento thriller into a bore fest.
Even the murder set pieces that Dario Argento is renowned for are lacking mainly because the same technique - decapitation using an electric powered wire garrote - which although cool the first time becomes somewhat samey with each subsequent use.
The film looks terrible in that awful tv movie way, in fact it looks far worse than Dario's actual tv movies ; Door into Darkness, Masters of Horror and Do You Like Hitchcock?
For me this is comfortably Argento's worst film.
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