MARTIN

In a small town in the American province, a maniac roams, mutilating young women with razor blades and sucking their blood until death. Who is the abominable killer? The police are on his trail, but it will be a man, the only one who knows the true identity of the maniac, who will stop him... One of the most troubled films by the great George A. Romero, a melancholic story of vampirism set in the American province with a young misfit as the protagonist. Slow, little dialogue (in the initial part it seems almost a silent film), no particularly violent scenes; not much to save, except for the remarkable flashback sequences, shot in a livid black and white. When Romero sets out to make an auteur film that pleases critics, he ends up making films too hermetic and convoluted that definitely stray from the public's tastes (see "The Season of the Witch"). The Italian version of the film is partly different from the original American one: the film was indeed re-edited and has undergone some cuts to make it (according to the distributors) more "adapted" to European public tastes, but the only result obtained was to worsen it further.