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A young man tries to help a teenage girl find the serial killer who murdered her parents before the killer comes after them.A young man tries to help a teenage girl find the serial killer who murdered her parents before the killer comes after them.A young man tries to help a teenage girl find the serial killer who murdered her parents before the killer comes after them.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Isabell O'Connor
- Georgia Jackson
- (as Isabell Monk)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe character played by Asia Argento is inspired by her half-sister Anna (Nicolodi's daughter from a previous marriage) who actually suffered from anorexia. Anna died in a scooter accident in 1994 shortly after the film's release, but she is seen in the actual movie during the closing credits dancing in the balcony.
- GoofsThe newscaster says that Dr. Judd died on impact at the scene of the accident, but he actually delivers some last words before succumbing.
- Alternate versionsA special uncut version reportedly available on video features 7 minutes of footage omitted from foreign prints including:
- a new introduction of the Aura and David characters: David (Chris Rydell) drives Grace (Laura Johnson) to the airport and sees Aura (Asia Argento) being beaten by a man whose plane ticket she tried to steal;
- a new scene features Grace visiting David at the TV station and asking him about Aura; David invites Grace to his house and then calls Aura at home to ask her if she needs any food; Aura lies to him and tells she's already eaten;
- Aura visits a market and is spotted by Dr. Jarvis (Frederic Forrest), who tries to catch her;
- After David and Aura escape from the Marigold, she tells him she's taken a little souvenir from Nurse Volkmann's purse; another new shot shows the Marigold's owner talking to the police;
- David checks into a hotel after following Linda Quirk's car and asks for a room overlooking the parking lot;
- David asks for information about Dr. Lloyd in a saloon;
- After David calls Grace and asks her for prescription forms, she meets and confronts him, trying to make him face the fact that he's become a junkie;
- The death scenes of Linda Quick and of the killer are more graphically explicit (the wire is seen cutting through Linda's neck).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001)
- SoundtracksRuby Rain
Sung by Laura Evan
Lyrics by Paolo Steffan
Music by Pino Donaggio
Arranged and Performed by Paolo Steffan
Featured review
Not one of Argento's best
"Trauma" is definitely not the best film he's ever done, and by no far the worst either, but it's just not up there with (Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebre and A Bird With A Crystal Plummage).
The set up is good and the acting is top-notch especially Asia Argento, she's a talented actress. The movie starts off good and the storyline is interesting and has a good twist at the end, it's just the middle I found a bit muddling. TRAUMA is occasionally a pleasingly twisted film, but whilst watching it I couldn't shake the feeling that it could have been all the more gloriously twisted if it were not for one thing- that it was trying to please its (perceived) American audience. As I've said (several times!) there is no way you can disguise Argento's intrinsic strangeness, but here it seems, well, kind of muted. Explaining why it fails somewhat, the film (and hence Argento) seems uncomfortable in its setting; especially in its attempts to transport some of giallo elements to a foreign setting.
All in all "Trauma" isn't a bad film, just mediore at times.
The set up is good and the acting is top-notch especially Asia Argento, she's a talented actress. The movie starts off good and the storyline is interesting and has a good twist at the end, it's just the middle I found a bit muddling. TRAUMA is occasionally a pleasingly twisted film, but whilst watching it I couldn't shake the feeling that it could have been all the more gloriously twisted if it were not for one thing- that it was trying to please its (perceived) American audience. As I've said (several times!) there is no way you can disguise Argento's intrinsic strangeness, but here it seems, well, kind of muted. Explaining why it fails somewhat, the film (and hence Argento) seems uncomfortable in its setting; especially in its attempts to transport some of giallo elements to a foreign setting.
All in all "Trauma" isn't a bad film, just mediore at times.
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- acidburn-10
- Apr 1, 2009
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Dario Argento's Trauma
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $475
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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