The Vanity Serum

April. 15,2004      
Rating:
5.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A PTSD-stricken detective investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all been guests at the same controversial talk show.

Margherita Buy as  Lucia Allasco
Barbora Bobuľová as  Azzurra Rispoli
Valerio Mastandrea as  Franco Berardi
Francesca Neri as  Sonia Norton
Antonino Bruschetta as  Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta)
Luis Molteni as  Rocco Piccolo
Maddalena Maggi as  Esther Bonanni
Marco Giallini as  Michele Benda
Antonio Ianniello as  Pasquale Terracciano
Rosario J. Gnolo as  Mago Daniel

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Reviews

Matrixston
2004/04/15

Wow! Such a good movie.

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Noutions
2004/04/16

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

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FuzzyTagz
2004/04/17

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Zandra
2004/04/18

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Stephano Moriello
2004/04/19

Oh my god! After watching that much average stuff I cannot believe I found this DVD in their middle. It is absolutely another level. I just saw it and still feel this special crawling after a good horror film… Might be some kind of an underestimated director that wanted to show that he has got power, and he showed. It is sort of an awesome crime and mystery driven horror production. Also if the story is not always logical or explained, you get this fascinating feeling when a film and a story go step by step in a right felt way. You get to think that the whole film is really near to you. You cannot avoid that it ends, but if there is nobody left alive… Charming that it's from Italy.

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Pierre Lacroix
2004/04/20

Maybe others missed a more logic story, but well this is not literature! Here we have passionate movie from passionate filmmakers. They know what's the reason why their audience watches their movies: We want hard stuff! Deaths and fears! The joy here is to see the fall of TV-Stars. That is real justice! A not even average script has been filmed and directed to a fresh, young and powerful punch in your face! Love this movie or hate it -but well: We will definitely see these filmmakers again, no doubt on that. Lots of suspense and violence filmed in great pictures. Just take some more looks at the story, and we will be testimonials of great horror and thriller stuff!

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dermarcod
2004/04/21

This film is full of great ideas in it's genre. Looks like there were people who just love this genre and had fun doing it. Well, for sure it is a bit rough, but you can see that finally the director is not, like always, some kind of a friend of Berlusconi or his gang, this is some really creative work on this genre. It is not a revolution, but it is good work and talent. I am looking forward to his next film. And if you know something about the Italian television and it's faces(it is maybe the worst television in the world) you just join the disappearing of these so called VIPs. With this one I spend an absolutely great horror night!

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pumaye
2004/04/22

Mediocre italian giallo, based on a novel by Niccolò ammaniti and directed by Infascelli, this movie has only a couple of excellent scenes (like the death of the comedian Rocco)on a too derivative script, that tries to make fun in a corrosive way on the power of television talk shows (the target of the writer is a notorious italian talk show), but the plot is contrived, full of holes as big as houses (while the assassin did not check the demise of the police woman, for example?), the acting is always really poor with very few exceptions (and this is a shame as most of the actors and actresses involved are normally really good). All in all, this is another example of the abysmal level of the new wave of Italian giallos, best exemplified by the terrible Il Cartaio. This one is definetily better, but only slightly so.

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