I was going to do Paganini, a different 1989 film starring and written by Klaus Kinski, I got it confused with this movie Paganini Horror, and got about 20 minutes in before I realized my error when I wondered "where the fuck is Kinski in this movie?"
Kinski in part made yesterday's blog post Vampire In Venice so he could get his Paganini biopic made, and he made that in 1989. I believe I read about Vampire in Venice that Kinski collaborated with Luigi Cozzi on Vampire in Venice a bit, and it seems shared with Cozzi about his Paganini idea. Cozzi then turned around and made this movie, Paganini Horror, probably at the approval of Kinski... or maybe just without, I dunno which one is wonkier and funnier.
Paganini Horror is a late 80's, MTV influenced, over top late Cozzi film. Cozzi is still alive and made a movie in 2020, and I'm interested in looking it up some day soon and seeing what his recent output is like. This one is extremely indicative of the time, it's flashy and showy and insane, it's dumb and fun, and short of not having any nudity it's overall trash-o-rama.
In the beginning of Paganini Horror, a little girl plays a song by Paganini, then goes and kills her mom. This piece of music is cursed, and then 80's pop star Sylvia gets it because her bandmate buys it off Donald Pleasense they're gonna play it and open up the horror.
The movie takes a while to setup, and there's not a clear payoff at all, I will say. There's not a lot of bodies, blood, guts, kills, monsters...there's sorta no thrills or scares in the movie. In fact, once the song is sung nothing basically happens except a hole in the ground exists which sorta leads to the devil or whatever. This movie was sorta dumb come to think of it.
I dunno, it has some fun and 80s kitsch.
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