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The irreverent score, the gothic art direction, and Mario Tosi’s kaleidoscopic, slithering cinematography coalesce into something mesmeric.

Misses at every opportunity.

The film succeeds so well in a genre, where pastiche is the norm, by accepting absurdity as real.

An odd mixture of the striking and the squandered.

This slice of southern gothic is deep fried in almost every cliche you could mention from the last 50 years - and served up with an unfortunate side order of snakes.

Too American to really succeed as a giallo, yet too European and personal to work as an American slasher in the Friday the 13th mould, Trauma is neither one thing nor the other.

Defying easy genre classification, Twin Peaks is a complex, literary tale that draws together ideas from disparate sources and is always veering off in directions at once unexpected and entirely logical.