Stendahl Syndrome, The

Starring Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, and Luigi Diberti

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Troma
Suspense/Thriller
113 minutes | Color
Italy
Released In Theaters April 7, 2000

Dario Argento's morbid thriller stars his daughter Asia who plays Anna Manni, a police detective trying to capture a viscious serial rapist and killer. The title refers to the psychological phenomenon from which Manni suffers that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when exposed to paintings and other works of fine art, a particularly troubling ailment when the killer draws Manni into the world famous Uffizi museum in Florence.

WRITTEN BY
Dario Argento
Franco Ferrini
Graziella Magherini (novel)

DIRECTED BY
Dario Argento

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

42 / 100

Critic Reviews

67	Austin Chronicle It's nasty, brutal stuff, but it's also unlike anything else out there.
50	TV Guide This psychological horror picture is harrowing and occasionally macabre -- you'll come away wondering what kind of father would cast his daughter in such a sexually brutal film.
40	LA Weekly Strangely drab.
30	Chicago Reader Poorly acted, over-the-top, and generally out-of-control bloodbath.

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