The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
Movie • 1970 • Horror
ReportWhile walking home one evening, Sam Dalmas, an American writer living in Rome, witnesses a violent struggle between a young woman and a black-coated figure in an art gallery. Dalmas attempts to intervene but is caught between the gallery's electronically operated glass doors, leaving the woman bleeding from knife wounds. Questioned by the police, the shocked author attempts to recall every detail regarding the incident. Convinced that there is an aspect of the crime he cannot recall, Dalmas begins his own investigation - putting himself and his girlfriend Giulia in line as the killer's potential victims...
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SPOILER: The murderer is revealed to be the victim of a failed murder attempt herself, memories of which, laid dormant until triggered by a painting depicting the act inflicted
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huviks
There's reference in both a painting and in dialogue to a violent sexual assault on a child (but nothing happens onscreen, and the painting is somewhat abstract on this point)
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Off screen and implied.
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Not exactly, but I thought it was worth mentioning that there’s a scene in a zoo where a lot of wild animals are shown in very small cages
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There are no dead animals on screen but a character reveals that he has been breeding and eating his cats... AFTER our protagonist has eaten meat from this character, implying that it was cat meat. It just looks like normal food.
There are no dead animals on screen but a character reveals that he has been breeding and eating his cats... AFTER our protagonist has eaten meat from this character, implying that it was cat meat. It just looks like normal food.
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There is a murder scene where the murderer is taunting the victim in a sexual manner.... the murderer rips off the victim's underwear. Lots of slow shots of the knife grazing her body and the horrified look on her face (clearly, fear of a sexual assualt happening) up until her murder
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Honkzilla
Not a rape, but the murderer cuts off a woman's undergarments with a knife before killing her
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No, but there is a scene near the end where an attacker puts the knife near the face quite a bit. No actual eye trauma occurs.
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No, but in one of the last scenes someone has a knife waved/stabbing around them to cause fear while they are trapped.
No, but in one of the last scenes someone has a knife waved/stabbing around them to cause fear while they are trapped.
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Yes, it is a woman and she is shown to be tied up and gagged, while some blood on her.
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The movie follows a man working with the police to solve a series of murders. The police are not competent and act coercively to get the main character to work for them but are still mostly sympathetic
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LaurelMoth
A police officer mentions thy have incarcerated a number of "transvestites"
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There are needles present, but they are not shown going into skin.
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A woman who was raped and nearly murdered later begins to commit murders herself. The police give the reason behind her actions as her “insanity” due to the trauma of her assault.
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ActuallyAshlee
Yes. That is given as the reason for the murderers actions
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the protagonist is trapped in a hallway, basically in a glass box. it’s entirely see-through
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when asked to try to identify the killer, the main character is shown a line up of “perverts.” there’s a joke where a gender non conforming person stands up and a cop says something about them not belonging to the category “pervert,” but “transvestite”
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A woman appears on screen wearing a sheer blouse, through which you can see her breasts. Before she is murdered, the killer rips her underwear off. No genitalia is seen. In another scene there are posters of topless women on the walls of somebody’s room.
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Not fully nude, but we do see a woman in a transparent nightgown. There is also a topless woman under bedsheets. There is a brief scene with pornographic photos pinned to a wall in the background.
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Frequent use of blood, though it is clearly fake and brightly colored. No extreme gore.
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Though no one gets hit, there is a scene in which a character is running from a gunman who is actively shooting at him.
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