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Watch: Due occhi diabolici 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar”: Gold-digger Jessica Valdemar and her lover Dr. Robert Hoffman plot to take the money of her old and terminal husband Ernest Valdemar. Robert has hypnotized Valdemar to give his money to Jessica. Out of the blue, Valdemar dies while hypnotized and is stranded between the world of the living and the dead. Robert finds the experience fascinating and Valdemar asks him to take him out of the trance since other spirits are stalking him. However, Jessica shoots Valdemar’s corpse twice, expecting to end his contact with the world of the living. But soon she learns that Valdemar had already been possessed by evil forces. “The Black Cat”: In Pennsylvania, tabloid photographer Roderick Usher explores gruesome crime scenes where Detective Legrand is investigating. Rod has been living with his violinist girlfriend Annabel for four years. When she brings home a stray black cat, Rod immediately hates the animal. He takes photos torturing the cat for his book and the cat vanishes. When Annabel sees the photos of the cat in a bookstore, she concludes that Rod killed her cat and decides to leave him. Meanwhile Rod finds a stray cat in a bar identical to the one he killed and the owner Eleonora gives him the animal.a Annabel is leaving the house, but she overhears the cat and returns to her room. Rod kills her and builds a wall to hide her body behind a bookshelf and prepares a solid alibi. But the black cat dooms his fate..
Plot: Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her doctor/hypnotist lover hypnotize the geezer into signing his dough over to her. The old man dies while under hypnosis and is stuck in the limbo between the here and the hereafter. The door to the physical world is opened and the undead attempt to enter it. “Black Cat” is the story of Rodd Usher, an alcoholic photographer/artist, who descends into madness after he kills a stray cat that his live-in girlfriend Annabelle brings home. One murder leads to another, and the complex cover-ups begin.
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Surprisingly good
Two Evil Eyes is a collaboration by two horror masters; George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), and Dario Argento (Suspiria). Special effects are also provided by the top name in horror movies of the period, Tom Savini. To top it off, both stories are based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, arguably one of the largest influences on works of horror, well… ever. And the efforts of these great names quite lives up to expectations. In fact, it may succeed them if you are aware of the decline in the quality of output by both of these directors around this time period. Romero’s next film after Two Evil Eyes was the appalling King adaptation The Dark Half, and Argento’s the lukewarm Trauma. So if one is knowledgeable of this it would be nothing but natural to approach this film tentatively. Fortunately, your fears will be calmed. The first half is titled The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, and is based on the Poe short story of the same name. Romero’s adaptation is a fun and concise update. The storyline is engaging, easy to follow, well acted, well shot. I wouldn’t say that it’s going to blow your mind but it’s certainly enjoyable. Argento’s effort, as would be expected, was somewhat more complicated. In terms of quality, plot, and appearance. The Black Cat is, mainly, based on the well known Poe story of the same name. It also incorporates nods to other works by the author and the main character’s last name is Usher. The story is somewhat muddled and confusing, but that really comes with the territory when Argento is concerned. There are also a few questionable set choices but overall I really found the second half very enjoyable as well. Overall I really think that Two Evil Eyes is a pretty damn enjoyable selection and probably more even than I’ve made it sound. It’s better than its place in the filmographies of the respective directors would suggest as well.

TWO MASTERS AT WORK
I can remember when it was announced that this film was being made back in 1990. To think that directors Dario Argento and George Romero would be tackling Edgar Allan Poe was an idea to be cheered. At first conceived as having more directors with shorter stories the end result found just these two. Fortunately both turn in solid stories that entertain and offer just a touch of fright.

Rather than tackle a single story each director chose one to do on their own. Those two stories were brought together to form this single film. Leading off was Romero with his version of “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”. Rather than a literal translation of the story, Romero chose to update it and twist it a bit.

We find 40 something Jessica Valdemar (Adrienne Barbeau) arriving at the downtown Pittsburgh office of her husband Ernest’s (Bingo O’Malley) attorney Mr. Pike (E.G. Marshall). She’s brought her husband’s updated will leaving her his considerable estate. Pike, who has great disdain for Jessica and feels she’s a bad influence on his friend, questions the changes and calls their home to confer with him. Her husband tells him these are the changes he wants and authorizes it though it will take three weeks to go through. Until then he authorizes a smaller sum for her to use.

Returning home Jessica meets with Dr. Robert Hoffman (Ramy Zada), her husband’s physician. But he’s more than that, he’s Jessica’s lover as well. Hoffman has used hypnotism to place Ernest in a trance and had him sign the legal documents Jessica took to the attorney. He also had him speak on the phone while under.

Things take a turn for the worse when Ernest goes into cardiac arrest while under hypnosis. Still weeks from having the money, the couple place his body in the freezer and continue to act as if he’s still alive. It isn’t long before things get stranger. Jessica begins hearing Ernest’s voice coming from the freezer. It seems that while his body died his mind is trapped, caught in the hypnotic world he was placed in. Suddenly a chance for revenge presents itself.

Romero plays all of this in a subtle manner rather than the blatant horror fans came to expect with his zombie films. It runs closer to what he presented with THE DARK HALF and MONKEYSHINES instead. His craftsmanship is apparent and his working with actors in a way that makes them comfortable is apparent. The end result finds his half of the production a creepy success.

On to Argento. Like Romero he tosses aside a literal translation of Poe and updates his tale, “The Black Cat”. Enter Rod Usher (Harvey Keitel), a crime scene photographer on the latest murder. A woman has been sliced in half by a pendulum blade. Usher is a brutish sort, unaffected by the scenes he shoots and the horror they contain. For him it is a job.

Usher returns home to his girlfriend Annabelle (Madeline Potter). Annabelle is the opposite of Usher, a more emotional person in touch with the world that surrounds her, more sensitive and mystical. A professional violinist she talks of witches and spells, a far cry from Usher’s gritty life on the streets attitude. Annabelle has brought home a cat that she adores but that Usher hates and despises. As the days pass his hatred for the animal grows. Eventually he strangles the cat while photographing himself in the act, later telling Annabelle that she must have run off.

Fighting with Annabelle and drinking heavily, Usher is unnerved when the barmaid at his local watering hole presents him with a cat to take home, one with the exact same markings as the cat he killed. While this is taking place Annabelle has found a new book of photos released by Usher that contains the phots of the first cat being killed. When they meet at home, a drunken Usher argue with Annabelle and threatens to kill the new cat. When she steps in to intervene, he kills Annabelle by accident.

To avoid being sent to prison, Usher hides Annabelle’s body in the wall of their apartment. But suspicious neighbors and co-workers lead detectives to investigate Annabelle’s disappearance. And if you know Poe you know what to expect next.

This portion of the film is once again well done on both creative and technical levels. More than that the story presentation seems more straight forward than most films made by Argento. While combining various Poe stories and characters he captures the essence of Poe here and does it well.

The end result of this collaboration is a solid horror film from both masters but two films that don’t terrify as much as one would expect. Instead their horror is more along the lines of a slow burn, a tale told that will bring images to mind but not cause you to jump from your chair. Those kind of films, as presented here, offer solid horror.

When the film was released it surprisingly didn’t fare well at the box office. It did do solid business on VHS and later disc. Now Blue Underground is releasing it again with a new 4K Restoration from the uncensored original camera negative as well as a slew of extras. Those include a new audio commentary track by Troy Howarth, the theatrical trailer, poster and still galleries, TWO MASTER’ EYES with interviews with Argento, Romero, special make-up effects supervisor Tom Savini, executive producer Claudio Argento and Asia Argento, SAVINI’S EFX a behind the scenes look at the movies effects, AT HOME WITH SAVINI a personal tour of Savini’s home, Adrienne Barbeau on George Romero, BEFORE I WAKE an interview with Ramy Zada, BEHIND THE WALL an interview with Madeline Potter, ONE MAESTRO AND TWO MASTERS an interview with composer Pino Donaggio, REWRITING POE an interview with co-writer Franco Ferrini, THE CAT WHO WOULDN’T DIE an interview with assistant director Luigi Cozzi, TWO EVIL BROTHERS an interview with special make-up assistant Everett Burrell, WORKING WITH GEORGE an interview with costume designer Barbara Anderson, a collectable booklet with a new essay by Michael Gingold and with this release the original motion picture soundtrack by Pino Donnagio on CD.

While this movie might be in your collection already it won’t be the same as is offered here. With the best presentation possible as well as that vast collection of extras this is the one to have. And kudos to Blue Underground for bringing it all together for fans of both directors.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror
Director Dario Argento, George A. Romero
Writer Edgar Allan Poe, George A. Romero, Franco Ferrini
Actors Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada
Country Italy, United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby, Dolby (Dolby 5.1), Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor S.p.a., Roma, Italy, Technicolor, New York (NY), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2021 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm