"Argento's Opera is a film of rare beauty, a celebration of love's absence and the ferocious force of the gaze." - Ed Gonzalez

Absolutely beautiful from start to finish. This is probably the most romantic movie I've ever seen that doesn't actually have any romance. A really sad story about two very complex and loveless characters. To me this is an intimate, almost heartfelt horror movie. The camera work is fantastic, particularly the POV shots of both Killer and Victims, it really helps convey all the emotions in each death scene. I effing love this movie!

A later Dario Argento movie which still has the atmosphere, and great use of sound, but narratively, bearing in mind Argento films are not based on realistic narratives and all the better for it, this is incredibly flabby and haphazard upon viewing it. Also it does not help that he uses second rate heavy metal at inappropriate times; as a fan of this music, I believe it can be used in films, but nearly everyone screws up.

After Suspiria, this is easily Argento's most visually impressive and well-paced. Scene after scene left me in awe of his inventiveness. The story, as usual, only sort of makes sense, but the experience is incredible.

apparently one of the indisputable classics of horror, didn't hit me like "halloween" or "the beyond"

I would have preferred to watch a DVD of Verdi's Macbeth.

"Opera" (or "Terror at the Opera" in the US) is a giallo (a stylish Italian whodunit) by the italian horror master himself, Dario Argento. Like Dario Argento's "Suspria" (often called his masterpiece), "Opera" is heavier on visuals and atmosphere rather than story. Also, like "Suspiria," the story isn't always completely coherent. I will say, though, that "Opera" is much more coherent.

Argento's final all-out masterpiece. Movie pretty much gets everything right. Utterly mean-spirited, and very metal.

Like the best and the worst of Argento. The visual style is astonishing, some of his best work. Maybe a little overboard on the POV shots, but that's kind of his thing, and there's a lot of other really magnificent shots besides. But once again, it's plagued by some horrendous dialogue and acting. And we have the return of godawful metal music. But the underlying plot isn't bad at all, except for the somewhat unsatisfying reveal of the killer. Overall, sort of brilliant and sort of a dud.

The sound, visuals and pacing were all fantastic (maybe the hilarious euro metal could have been scaled back a little), and while the violence was fairly wrenching and brutal, it was still artistically appropriate. The film has trouble establishing plot consistency, but I'll go ahead and say it doesn't exactly matter. Especially commendable were the last scenes in the heroine's apartment building, holy hell was that a lot of movie to juggle.

A great film that occassionally comes close to being complete awful but never quite falls there. This is the movie that Saw ripped off.

A fairly stupid and predictable plot, but absolutely astounding visuals. Probably the prettiest horror film I've ever seen. Also quite capable of making a person squirm uncomfortably during a few scenes.

One of the most disturbing things I have ever seen and probably one of the weirdest things to ever be committed to film. The movie starts with a close up of a raven cawing while a woman sings opera. There is a production of an operatic version of M...(read more)acbeth. And, there is one of the most impressive and horrifying slow motion bullet scenes I have ever seen. Dario Argento is an incredibly strange man. I still prefer Deep Red, but this one has a higher rating just because of the way it i

Totally sick -- and in a good way. One of the most beautiful horror films ever made. Do anything you have to do to see this on the big screen

has the single best murder ever put on screen.

Any plot is incidental to this Argento slasher centered around a pretty nifty gimmick.

Overwhelmingly cheesy, gnawingly sentimental and unnecessary "ambitious", but visually stunning. It feels like a bestial adventure with clear parallels to the Phantom of the Opera-story; the whole film's a grand farce. But the camera dances elegantly and confidently around the talentless actors, and Argento light every scene with great care. The script has a violent smell of horseshit and the soundtrack is periodically fantastic, periodically corny... A genuine bimbo.