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''Deep Red'' (original title ''Profondo Rosso''; also known as ''The Hatchet Murders'') is a 1975 Italian giallo film, directed by Dario Argento〔(【引用サイトリンク】The New York Times">url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/89073/Profondo-Rosso/overview )〕 and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. It was released on 7 March 1975. It was produced by Claudio and Salvatore Argento, and the film's score was composed and performed by Goblin. It stars Macha Meril as a medium and David Hemmings as a man who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. The film was a commercial success internationally and met with critical acclaim. ==Plot== The movie starts off with two shadowy figures struggling - until one of them is stabbed to death - while a child's scream is heard. The film follows jazz pianist and music teacher Marcus Daly (Hemmings) as he investigates the violent murder of psychic medium Helga Ulmann (Macha Meril). Other major characters are introduced early, including Daly's alcoholic friend Carlo (Gabriele Lavia), Carlo's scatterbrained mother Martha (Clara Calamai), Ulmann's associate Dr. Giordani (Glauco Mauri), and reporter Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi). Before the murder, Ulmann holds a lecture in a theater where she suddenly senses that there is someone with a twisted and violent mind in the audience that she cannot clearly identify. Later that night, while Ulmann is in her apartment taking notes about the incident in the theater, someone kicks the door in and attacks her with a meat cleaver. The killer also destroys her notes. Marcus, who lives in the same apartment building, is walking home when he sees the woman being attacked through the window. He rushes into her apartment to find the woman bleeding to death. After the police arrive, Marcus realizes he has seen a certain painting among a group of portraits on the walls of the victim's apartment, which seems to have disappeared. The killing of Helga Ulmann is prefaced by a child's doggerel tune (the same music that accompanies the film's opening sequence). The music serves as the murderer's calling card. Marcus hears it in his own apartment soon after becoming involved in the case, but he is able to foil the murderer by locking himself up in his study. Later, he plays the tune to Giordani, a psychiatrist, who theorizes that the music is important because it probably played an integral part in a traumatic event in the killer's past. Another friend of Ulmann tells him about a folktale involving a haunted house in which a singing child is heard, followed by the shrieking of someone being murdered. In investigating the source of the music tune and the folktale, the search leads Marcus to a story from a book written by Amanda Righetti (Giuliana Calandra), titled ''House of the Screaming Child'', which describes a long-forgotten murder. Marcus tries to find Amanda Righetti to talk to her about her book, but the unseen killer arrives at Righetti's villa first - and murders her by drowning her in a bathtub filled with scalding hot water. The dying Righetti manages to write a message on the wall of the steam-filled bathroom before expiring. Marcus finds the body but, afraid that the police will think he did it, leaves the place without calling anyone. Thanks to a picture from the book, Marcus locates the house where the folktale originated and learns from the caretaker that no one has lived in the house since 1963 when the previous owner disappeared. Marcus looks around the house and, removing some plaster from a wall, uncovers a child's drawing of a little boy holding a bloody knife next to a murdered man and a Christmas tree. Only after he leaves the room, does some more plaster fall off, revealing a third figure in the drawing. Meanwhile, Giordani investigates the Righetti murder scene and, on a hunch, turns on the hot water in the bathroom and sees part of the message left on the wall by the murder victim. When Giordani returns to his office that night to investigate more, the unseen killer breaks in - and stabs him in the neck with his own knife after bashing his teeth in on the mantelpiece. Marcus also discovers a clue that he initially overlooked in the photo of the deserted house: a window on one of the walls is missing. Marcus returns to the house after dark. After unsuccessfully trying to bash in the wall where the window was (which leads to him nearly falling off the ledge,), he enters the house. Using a pickaxe, he bashes down an end-wall in a hallway, and discovers the secret room with a rotting skeleton next to a Christmas tree. Then, the unseen killer arrives and knocks Marcus out. When he regains consciousness, he finds the house on fire and Gianna by his side, who arrived in the nick of time to pull him out of the house. Marcus and Gianna go to the caretaker's house to call the police and the fire department. There, Marcus discovers that the caretaker's young daughter Olga had drawn an identical drawing of the little boy with a bloody knife standing next to a murder victim. Olga tells them that she copied the drawing from an old file in the archives at her junior high school. Marcus and Gianna break into the school to search the archives for the drawing. Marcus finds the painting, which has Carlo's name on it. He looks for Gianna and finds out she has been stabbed. Carlo appears before Marcus, holding a gun and threatening to kill him for getting too close to the truth. Just then, the police arrive and Carlo flees - only to get hooked onto a rebar transported by a passing truck and dragged down the street to a gruesome death. The case is apparently wrapped up, with Carlo being the killer. Marcus drops off the severely wounded Gianna at the hospital, Heading back to the scene of the crime, he realises that Carlo could not have murdered Helga Ulmann because they were together only a few seconds before Marcus saw her at the window. Marcus enters the murder victim's apartment and, after looking around, finally remembers what he saw in a mirror reflection which he thought was a portrait that night: the face of the killer. When he turns back, the killer appears in front of him, as the identity of the killer is finally revealed - as Carlo's insane mother Martha. When Carlo was still a child, he watched as she stabbed her husband when he tried to have her committed to a psychiatric hospital. Carlo, traumatized, picked up the bloody knife. They then entombed his body in a room of their house. In the climax, Martha confronts Marcus and tries to kill him. Wielding a meat cleaver, Martha chases him out of the apartment and to the elevator. Marcus is struck in the shoulder by the meat cleaver but manages to kick Martha toward the elevator shaft. A long necklace she wears around her neck catches in the bars of the shaft - and she is decapitated when he pushes the lift button. The film ends with Marcus staring into a pool of Martha's blood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deep Red」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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