Lucio Fulci was a versatile talent. Before he carved a name for himself in the early eighties with gory epics like The Beyond (1981) he made some Argento style gialli and this is one of the best. The film successfully blends a dreamlike quality with an intricate, multilayered story co-written by Fulci and the extremely hardworking Dardano Sachetti (let's face it the man must be a genius).

Jennifer O'Neill is the psychic woman who as a child had a vision of her mother's actual death and who later as an adult has a puzzling vision of a woman being walled up in the same fashion as in Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat. Recently married O'Neill then spends some time at her rich husband's lonely country estate where she discovers the room from her vision, and a dead body behind the wall...

This being a giallo there's several plot twists as the film develops but they are carried out with unusual effectivety and partially thanks to Sergio Salvati's incredible cinematography the film becomes involving and atmospheric. That Fulci might have intended this as some sort of commentary on the giallo genre is evident in the recurrence of the color yellow/giallo in O'Neill's key vision, there's the cigarette with yellow wrapping paper, a magazine cover with the text "giallo" and a broken mirror with a golden yellow frame.

Excerpt from Euro Trash Reviews (Kristoffer Gansing) located HERE