The Stendhal Syndrome(La sindrome di Stendhal)

Name: The Stendhal Syndrome
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Italy · 1996
2h 0m
Director Dario Argento
Starring Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti
Genre Crime, Horror, Thriller

When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome"—a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art.

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L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Strangely drab.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Poorly acted, over-the-top, and generally out-of-control bloodbath.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

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.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

It's nasty, brutal stuff, but it's also unlike anything else out there.