Into The Labyrith (L'uomo del labirinto) (2019)

Author Donato Carrisi directs for a second time an adaptation of one of his own books and like the first effort (The Girl In The Fog) this is again an unrestrained nonsense, a murder mystery that plays out like a garish fairytale, so over-the-top with its allusions to witches and dungeons and masked killers, none of it ends up mattering or even making sense, least of all the grandiose twists that you'd have to be a real dummy not to see coming.

★★☆☆☆

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The Girl In The Fog (La Ragazza Nella Nebbia) (2018)

This twisty, turny and loooong and convoluted Italian mystery based on the novel by Donato Carrisi (and an adaptation directed by him) operates in a kind of exaggerated reality like a gothic fairytale which makes all that happens not matter much, but it will keep you watching as a Detective Vogel becomes involved in a teenaged girl's disappearance from a town in the Alps. 

★★★☆☆

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