Caught this over the long Eid Mubarak holiday:-

Do you like Hitchcock?

Argento's 2005 made for TV movie. As such, don't expect him to hold back. One murder is very gory. The voyeurism is at least 18 certificate. Generally not as taut as the movie he references, mainly Dial M For Murder, Strangers on a Train and Rear Window. The little bits and pieces are too blatant to make it into suspenseful Hitchcockian territory. As a giallo, though, it's not too bad. Generally a big WTF? moment when the two killers are revealed but I won't spoil that for you. Even has a morality thing at the end - voyeurism is bad, ya hear. Has some Argento-style delirium but few and far in between.

Basic Instinct 2

Shed of the first one's noirish pretensions, this is actually a pretty ok psychosexual thriller. Basically Catherine Tramell's adventures in London, this one follows her as she torments a good-looking psychiatrist. The ending doesn't particularly gel, as she's known to be a liar. And Stone's days as a sultry sex vixen is long gone. My favourite character is David Thewlis' crooked cop, unfortunate he gets so little screen time.

Repulsion

I don't like this much. Much of the surreal hallucinations are too misantrophic and misogynistic to watch. Lotsa rape surrealism. Not much in the way of sympathetic characters, with the only one being killed early. The "arms-coming-out-of-walls" scene is pretty frequently cited in other movies, and yeah, it is chilling. Catherine Deneuve looks arresting though, spending most of the movie in a see-through nightie.